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Despite letter from UI, religion instructor doesn?t expect to teach this fall

By Alliance Alert

The News-Gazette: "A letter from the University of Illinois says controversial Professor Kenneth Howell could be back in the classroom this fall, pending a review by a faculty senate committee. But Howell said that's not what he's been told. ... The UI attorney told [ADF] that legal action is 'unwarranted' at this time, and that the UI respects Howell's First Amendment rights. ... 'A university cannot censor professors' speech ? including classroom speech related to the topic of the class ? merely because certain ideas "offend" an anonymous student,' Alliance Defense Fund senior counsel [David French] said."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 21, 2010 (boomark / email).