Posted on 03/21/2014 7:20:35 AM PDT by dennisw
First Amendment enthusiasts are thrilled that Mike Adams, a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, won his lawsuit against administrators who denied him a promotion because of his conservative, Christian views.
Adams joined the university in 1993. He was an atheist at the time. By the year 2000, he had converted to Christianity and become an outspoken political conservative. He eventually wrote columns for Townhall.com.
In 2006, he was denied a promotion. Administrators were retaliating against him for his conservative views, he claimed.
The jury agreed.
Adams’s lawyers said the victory is an important one for free speech on public university campuses.
“This is an incredibly important victory for the First Amendment,” said Travis Barham, an attorney with the Alliance Defending Freedom, in a statement to Campus Reform. “To be able to speak freely without retaliation is a principle that should be a reality on campus and the jurors reassured that.”
Adams’s conservative views had irked many of his colleagues and some of his students, according to The College Fix.
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My hat is off to Mike Adams for remaining on the battlefield. The young people who attend that university should be exposed to diverse thinking. They need to know that they should question the authoritarian beliefs of progressivism.
My wake-up call was taking a graduate level Constitutional law class, and reading the ludicrous rationales behind the Marxist/feminist usurpation, takeover and destruction of the natural family.
His criminology classes are very popular. I watched one on YouTube.
UNC and Duke are pretty much the only games in Big University in his state, and Duke is possibly even farther left. Because UNC is a taxpayer-funded state U, he has had a better chance of winning against the left; it's significant that this was a jury trial and the jury apparently agreed with his position.
If he were to slink away to a smaller school, or uproot his family to go to another state, it would be a shame. Granted he has been a gadfly to the ludicrous PC excesses of his Uni and others; but I'm sure he has lots of supporters who have been afraid for their jobs to come forward.
When, oh when, will the last of the hippie/boomer/60s radicals retire? At least the ball is now rolling, since the oldest Boomer turned 65 in 2011. The last Boomer will turn 65 in 2029. The peak in the bell curve is somewhere around 2020.
I’d be interested in the other miracle....lost was but found.
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I’d be interested in the other miracle....lost was but found.
Thanks. Interesting.
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