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Fired for teaching the truth

By Alliance Alert

Bryan Berry writes at the National Catholic Register: "Some of the professors teaching Islam are practicing Muslims. But unlike the Muslims, who also believe that homosexual sex is wrong, Howell was 'penalized for believing in what he?s teaching,' said [David Hacker], litigation staff counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund Center for Academic Freedom, which is defending Howell . . . Although the issue that led to Howell?s dismissal was Church teaching on homosexual sex and Howell?s belief in that teaching, Howell, the Alliance Defense Fund and many of Howell?s supporters have been taking their stand on another principle: freedom of speech, protected by the First Amendment, and academic freedom."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 28, 2010 (boomark / email).