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Alliance Defense Fund Demands that University of Illinois Immediately Reinstate Professor Fired For Teaching Facts about Catholic Doctrine on Homosexual Behavior in Class About Catholic Doctrine

By ADF Alliance Alert

CNSNews: "We are gravely disappointed that the University would succumb to such a ?heckler?s veto,? jettison principles of academic freedom, and violate Dr. Howell?s First Amendment freedoms.  And we insist that he be reinstated to his teaching position immediately," the letter said. ?We are seriously going to consider a lawsuit if they do not back down from this.  It was clear cut censorship of a professor simply for expressing a politically incorrect view in the classroom on the subject that the class was about,? Jordan L[aw]rence, the Alliance Defense Fund attorney representing Howell, told CNSNews.com.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 16, 2010 (boomark / email).