10 crazy things inside the lawsuit against Marquette for firing professor

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It’s a strange story.

In a philosophy class, a student is told by the teacher (a graduate student) that he cannot argue against same sex marriage in class becausee that is homophobic and offensive, and not allowed in her class. He is invited to drop the class.

The student complains to other professors.

One professor blogs about the incident, takng the student’s side and favoring free speech.

The university administration comes down on the blogging professor and insists that he apologize to the graduate student / teacher. He refuses, and is terminated from a tenured position.

The prof sues the university, loses in state court, and appeals to the state supreme court. The case is yet undecided.

I guess the moral of the story is: it’s just not acceptable to argue against same sex marriage at a Catholic university.

 
Heaven forbid that any university prof should act like a jerk. After his blog post defending the student, the teacher referred to him as “bigoted moron,” an “uncritical creepy homophobic person with bad argumentation skills,” a “flaming bigot, sexist and homophobic idiot” with an “ugly face.” But then she was just a teaching graduate student, not a prof, so maybe didn’t know any better. But the philosophy department chairman called him a “right wing lunatic.”
 
It was handled very badly by the Philosophy Department, which I would assume includes the graduate student instructor.
 
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