[Right Wing Professor]

It is a disgrace to politicize science like this.

Yes it is. As it was when the Dover School Board did it. As it was when the Kansas Board of Education did it. As it was when the Ohio School Board did it.

Sternberg made an ideologically motivated editorial decision that ignored the policy of the journal he managed. That is a mistake that future employers are entitled to weigh negatively against him. Whatever religious training he has is irrelevant.

[betty boop]

Sternberg made an ideologically motivated editorial decision that ignored the policy of the journal he managed.

(1) You are imputing motives to Sternberg that you cannot possible have direct knowledge about; (2) you seem to indicate that the journal's policy is only to publish the orthodox view. Is that correct? To my mind, both (1) and (2) are indefensible. FWIW.

[RobbyS]

Did he actually disobey policy or misinterpret it, or interpret it in a way that displeased his superiors? Come to think of it, it is hard to disobey words on paper. One can only disobey persons.