More lawsuits like this will serve notice that this form of discrimination will not be tolerated. The American mind has been in chains for far too long, and it is time for them to be broken.

Universities claim to be havens for diversity, but this political correctness does not guarantee freedom of thought. Tolerance is reserved for those who stick to the liberal line. Those who deviate from the approved set of views can expect to be set upon by angry student activists and reproving academic bureaucrats.

Two recent examples of “thought crime” illustrate the academy’s low level of tolerance for divergent views. The University of Illinois fired nontenured adjunct professor Ken Howell from teaching and also from a job at the on-campus Catholic center for correctly stating Catholic doctrine on homosexuality.

Mr. Howell had been teaching courses such as Introduction to Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thought at the school for nine years. During the spring semester, he explained in an e-mail to a student that according to Catholic doctrine, “A homosexual orientation is not morally wrong just as no moral guilt can be assigned to any inclination that a person has.

However, based on natural moral law, the Church believes that homosexual acts are contrary to human nature and therefore morally wrong.”

A hypercritical student radical determined this was “hate speech” and complained to religion department head
Robert McKim, who fired Mr. Howell. Apparently, the professoriat will condone no deviations from political correctness regardless of the context or the facts.

Read More: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/23/no-faith-in-universities/