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Christian academics cite hostility on campus

By Alliance Alert

Minnesota Public Radio: "One of the hot debates in academia is now reaching the courts. The question: Do universities discriminate against religious conservatives? Some professors and students say they do, but it's not an easy charge to pin down . . . [Mike] Adams teaches criminology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. A few years ago, he began writing strongly worded op-ed pieces expressing conservative views on religious and political issues. When he applied for promotion to full professor, his colleagues voted him down. [David French], an attorney for the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative legal group, says there's an upsurge of these cases. 'The secular public schools are almost becoming, for lack of a better term, quasi-religious in their outlook and devotion to one particular worldview and excluding all those who disagree,' French says."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 30, 2010 (boomark / email).