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Catholic prof and the Christian Taliban 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...

“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” http://www.carrollnewsonline.com/index.php?id=135 From the John Carroll University Student Newspaper Meetings are being held to discuss politics in the classroom after a professor apologized for an e-mail in which he vented his frustrations over the result of the presidential election.The controversial e-mail was written by Paul Lauritzen, director of the Applied Ethics Program and professor of Religious Studies, to 32 faculty and administrators.The e-mail, which was sent on Thursday, Nov. 4 at 10:31 a.m., somehow made...

Meetings are being held to discuss politics in the classroom after a professor apologized for an e-mail in which he vented his frustrations over the result of the presidential election. The controversial e-mail was written by Paul Lauritzen, director of the Applied Ethics Program and professor of Religious Studies, to 32 faculty and administrators. The e-mail, which was sent on Thursday, Nov. 4 at 10:31 a.m., somehow made it into the hands of students. In it, Lauritzen wrote that he was “depressed beyond belief” at the result of the election. He added that he was angry, using an expletive. He...