Posted on 08/08/2018 7:45:44 AM PDT by reaganaut1
At last, McAdams v. Marquette University is over, and the outcome is heartening for Americans who cherish free speech and adherence to contracts. Conversely, it has those who believe that speech that ofends any politically correct sensibilities must be punished gnashing their teeth.
The Martin Center has been covering this case since it broke nearly four years ago, first with this piece by one of McAdams’ colleagues, Howard Kainz. To briefly recount the facts of the case, Marquette banished from campus and sought to revoke the tenure of a political science professor and terminate his employment merely because of a blog post he wrote.
In that post, McAdams criticized a young faculty member, Cheryl Abbate, for the way she dismissed a student’s inquiry about whether the ethics course she was teaching would cover same-sex marriage. She didn’t just say no, but told him that the matter was settled, that any discussion of it in class would be regarded as homophobic harassment, and that he should drop the class if he wasn’t happy.
In his post, McAdams said that Abbate’s response exemplified the leftist tendency to declare that positions contrary to theirs are immoral and not worth considering. Debate is therefore stifled just because an argument might hurt someone’s feelings. Universities, McAdams opined, should never become so close-minded.
In all probability, nothing would have come of this little dispute if McAdams’ post hadn’t gotten national attention. But it did, and afterward, Abbate received some nasty emails, whereupon she decided that she had grounds for a harassment complaint against him. Her complaint lit a fire under the Marquette administration, which immediately convened a Faculty Hearing Committee (FHC) to investigate the matter and recommend action against McAdams.
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Sane judges! Who knew!!;-)
Tide’s turning imho.
An excellent read. Gives some hope to those who are at the gates of Inferno.
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