Posted on 12/09/2004 3:04:58 PM PST by Akron Al
A professor at John Carroll University, a Catholic institution by the by, has had his bias revealed when an email he wrote to fellow faculty and administrators got out. In it, he called members of the Republican Party "Christian Taliban" and said that professors have to start indoctrinating their students in their liberal political views. (Start?)
We need to tell our students that Bush is a liar and that many in the Republican party are essentially the Christian version of the Taliban,” he wrote. “Bush won Ohio and much of the rest of the country because of Guns, Gays, and God,” Lauritzen wrote. He added, “I say No Guns, No Gay Bashing, Not Your God.”
He added that faculty must organize against the war in Iraq. “We have to abandon this studied neutrality,” Lauritzen wrote. “We have to lead by example. I ask you to join me in transforming the culture at JCU.”It's interesting that it was students who got their hands on the email and started making a big stink about it." Senior Brian Ellis, who was one of the students who got a hold of the e-mail, met with Lauritzen. "We’re not paying for a one-sided education," Ellis said.
The professor has apologized: “Because the language of the e-mail was intemperate, it has given great offense to many in our community, especially many Republicans." Sounds like one of those "I'm sorry you were offended" apologies.
In any case, it's nice to see the bias exposed so that students can be equipped and ready to deal with it when it's presented. And it's good to see that students are simply taking it anymore.
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To hell with the Prof.
The fact that the Dems put up a really awful candidate didn't have anything to do with the results of the election.
Uh, Professor? I think that's what the Dems said for the last two years. Look at where it got them.
Work on that motto a little bit, you sound like an uneducated bigot.
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