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UI administrators ask committee to examine academic freedom over issue of fired professor

By ADF Alliance Alert

News-Gazette.com: "'Teaching a student about the tenets of a religion is one thing,' the student wrote in the e-mail. "Declaring that homosexual acts violate the natural laws of man is another." . . . Hogan and Easter said Monday the senate may want to review the agreement between the Department of Religion and the Newman Center . . . 'My understanding is that there have been longstanding questions about this relationship,' said Professor Nicholas Burbules, professor of educational policy studies and a member of the Senate Council. . . . Burbules, who was a religious studies major at Grinnell College in Iowa, said 'a religious studies program is not a seminary. There's a difference between teaching about religion and teaching religion.' He said the case isn't 'just about one e-mail or the issue of homosexuality. 'My understanding is this line has been crossed a long time ago, and repeatedly. This email was kind of a last straw,' Burbules said . . . "

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 13, 2010 (boomark / email).