Posted on 12/10/2005 8:38:21 PM PST by neverdem
I think every religion, major and minor has a creation story...
So what the hell is an Athesit doing as Dean of the Religious Studies Department....? I just don;t know anymore--I really ust don;t know...
Uh, you did speak your mind. There's no constitutional protection from the results of you speaking your mind. Read a book. A real one. And the constitution. Then learn to shut yer yap.
And for the record, he was not "hospitalized". He was treated and released.
cry me a river
"Congress shall make no law" does not equal "can't get fired for conduct." Hoe do these supposed smart people get it wrong so often?
"He said his career had been ruined and his speaking engagements canceled."
"The university "has a duty, as a protector of intellectual honesty and debate, to support its teaching staff when controversial issues are raised," he wrote."
This isn't just a matter of "raising controversial issues"; it's a matter of mockery and derision that is unacceptable from a man in his position representing the university by being on its staff. It's simply not professional. He ruined his career himself when he opened his mouth. He has no one to blame but himself.
Thanks for the link.
I ran into Professor Mirecki in Lawrence Thursday evening.... or more accurately, he almost ran into me.
He was walking into the Eldridge Hotel as I was walking out. He had his head down and was looking at his feet while he walked, and almost ran smack into my chest before he stepped to one side and ducked into the hotel bar. He never looked higher than my chest; I am about 5 inches taller than the professor, and a great deal wider in the shoulders, so maybe I scared him.
When he looked up from his own feet, I recognized him. Professor Mirecki had the dark spots under his eyes (I won't dignify them by calling them "bruises"), but was otherwise fine. He looked far better than I would expect from a man who had supposedly been beaten by two country boys armed with a metal pipe.
He smelled like a man who drank his dinner.
He also had no qualms about walking alone on Massachusetts Street after 10PM, even with those "evil fundies" still "out there".
What a wuss.
A professor who publicly expresses anti-Christian bigotry has no business presenting himself in a classroom to teach. They should fire ALL of these kind of smarmy liberal secular humanist wacko eggheads.
If he had called blacks by the "n" word or gays by the "f" word (equivalent to using "fundie" as a slur term) he'd have been fired completely. Ditto if he'd proposed a course he described as a big slap in the face directed at blacks, gays, or any other group liberals support.
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