Marquette University Suspends Conservative Prof From Campus Over Gay Marriage Flap
Dissent from the liberal position will not be tolerated.
Turning Point USA reported.
BREAKING: Conservative professor banned from campus!
Marquette University has banned a tenured professor, John McAdams, from Marquette University until further notice. This is because he published a controversial blog post about another professor, Cheryl Abbate, who told a student, “If you don’t support gay marriage, drop my class.”…
Here’s the letter John McAdams received:
Dear John:
The university is continuing to review your conduct and during this period–and until further notice–you are relieved of all teaching duties and all other faculty activities, including, but not limited to, advising, committee work, faculty meetings and any activity that would involve your interaction with Marquette students, faculty and staff. Should any academic appeals arise from Fall 2014 semester, however, you are expected to fulfill your obligations in that specific matter.
Your salary and benefits will continue at their current level during this time.
You are to remain off campus during this time, and should you need to come to campus, you are to contact me in writing beforehand to explain the purpose of your visit, to obtain my consent and to make appropriate arrangements for that visit. I am enclosing with this letter Marquette’s harassment policy, its guiding values statement, the University mission statement, and sections from the Faculty Handbook, which outline faculty rights and responsibilities; these documents will inform our review of your conduct.
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“As a Catholic university, we are committed to the unfettered pursuit of truth under the mutually illuminating powers of human intelligence and Christian faith. Our Catholic identity is expressed in our choices of curricula, our sponsorship of programs and activities devoted to the cultivation of our religious character, our ecumenical outlook, and our support of Catholic beliefs and values. Precisely because Catholicism at its best seeks to be inclusive, we are open to all who share our mission and seek the truth about God and the world, and we are firmly committed to academic freedom as the necessary precondition for that search. We welcome and benefit enormously from the diversity of seekers within our ranks, even as we freely choose and celebrate our own Catholic identity.”
“[D]iversity of seekers [of truth] within our ranks”
Good one, MU.
Further chuckles can be yours by reading other parts of MU’s Mission Statement,
http://www.marquette.edu/about/mission.php
If I was a student at Marquette, I would not consider taking any classes with Professor Abbate or any other professor who set up a political litmus test for students. Professors should be willing to discuss political issues with students if germane to the course or if requested, but should never abuse their students by insisting they must adhere to the professor’s political views. That’s a misuse of the classroom. Faculty members should welcome diversity of opinion and encourage reasoned debate. Apparently, Professor McAdams has been denied the right to teach because he exposed this misuse. What is also dumb is that Marquette will now pay McAdams to stay home and not work.
Let me take this opportunity to introduce readers to Professor Mike Adams of the University of North Carolina – Wilmington, who writes at Townhall.com. Adams successfully sued his employer, UNC-W, for punishing him for his conservative political views. (Prof. McAdams, get a pencil. This is some good stuff)
http://townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/
Prof. Adams is kick-butt awesome, with the most interesting curriculum vitae. Let’s just say, he wasn’t born a conservative activist professor:
” In 1990, Adams turned down a chance to pursue a PhD in psychology from the University of Georgia, opting instead to remain at Mississippi State to study Sociology/Criminology. This decision was made entirely on the basis of his reluctance to quit his night job as member of a musical duo. Playing music in bars and at fraternity parties and weddings financed his education. He also played for free beer.
Upon getting his doctorate in 1993, Mike Adams, then an atheist and a Democrat, was hired by UNC-Wilmington to teach in the criminal justice program. A few years later, Adams abandoned his atheism and also became a Republican. He also nearly abandoned teaching when he took a one-year leave of absence to study law at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1998.
After returning to teach at UNC-Wilmington, Mike Adams won the Faculty Member of the Year award (issued by the Office of the Dean of Students) for the second time in 2000.
After his involvement in a well publicized free speech controversy in the wake of the 911 terror attacks, Mike Adams became a vocal critic of the diversity movement in academia. He has since made appearances on shows like Hannity and Colmes, the O’Reilly Factor, and Glenn Beck. His column on TownHall.com has earned him countless hate mails – often from radical feminists who hate males.”
Read the rest at the Townhall link.