University of Illinois reaction to a professor’s e-mail
In my last post, the material mentioned the dismissal of Catholic professor Kenneth Howell by the University of Illinois. I have received several e-mails from Americans For Truth concerning this matter. Tonight, portions of the first e-mail received.
“From: Americans For Truth
Sent: Jul 12, 2010 6:26 PM
To: aft-update@americansfortruth.com
Subject: The E-mail that Got Prof. Kenneth Howell Fired at U. of Illinois
The E-Mail that Got Dr. Kenneth Howell Fired at U. of Illinois
READ IT ONLINE: http://americansfortruth.com/news/the-e-mail-that-got-dr-kenneth-howell-fired-at-u-of-illinois.html
Dr. Kenneth Howell, Adjunct Associate Professor of Religion, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, was fired after a liberal student complained about an e-mail he sent to his students explaining Natural Moral Law.
By Peter LaBarbera
The University of Illinois has fired Dr. Kenneth Howell, a Catholic adjunct religion professor who was doing his job of teaching a class on Catholicism—after a liberal student complained to the university about an e-mail Howell sent to his students explaining Natural Moral Law. (The professor’s instructive e-mail and the student’s complaint e-mail are reproduced below.)
TAKE ACTION: Contact Michael Hogan, the University of Illinois’s new president, and urge him to reinstate Prof. Howell immediately: phone: (217) 333-6400; Fax: (217) 333-5733. Tell President Hogan that Howell’s firing is a nationwide advertisement that the University of Illinois is bigoted toward and intolerant of people of faith—giving lie to U-I’s mission statement to be “inclusive” and to ‘treat each other with dignity and respect.’ Board of Trustees: contact the U. of Illinois Bd. of Trustee (217) 333-1920 or write: UIBOT@uillinois.edu.
The U. of Illinois’ ‘religion department’s website says Howell was recognized for excellent teaching in the spring and fall semesters of 2008 and 2009,’ the Champaign News-Gazette reports.
Howell’s termination draws attention to the emerging, cold reality of modern, politically correct America: in cosmopolitan areas and certainly in academia, you are more likely to be terminated, punished or persecuted on the job for opposing homosexuality than for ‘being gay.’
Here we are—on the verge, with our Democrat-controlled Congress, of creating federal employment ‘rights’ based on homosexuality (and transgenderism), and people are being fired merely for expressing their sincere religious beliefs—which, in Howell’s case, was his job. Even as homosexual activists falsely claim that thousands of homosexuals face job losses because of ‘who they are,’ the number of anti-Christian firings is piling up: remember the Allstate firing of Matt Barber? Crystal Dixon?
As you can see from below, Dr. Howell is a clear thinker who was doing what he was paid to do—teaching Catholic morality to his students. The complaint e-mail that got him terminated dismisses Howell’s e-mail as ‘absurd...It sickens me to know that hard-working Illinoisans are funding the salary of a man who does nothing but try to indoctrinate students and perpetuate stereotypes.’ (That’s a good portion of university staffs but they are most likely to be indoctrinating students with libertine trash—a woman has the “right” to MURDER her unborn baby, homosexual behavior is normal and acceptable—and socialistic nonsense—my addition.)
If you want to know about the homo-fascist impulse that dominates so many institutions of ‘higher learning’ (hah!) today, here are the key paragraphs from the News-Gazette story:
In a series of e-mail exchanges between [Robert McKim, head of the U-I religion department] and UI administrators about how to proceed regarding Howell’s teaching and his appointment as an adjunct professor, McKim states he will send a note to Howell’s students and others who were forwarded his e-mail to students, ‘disassociating our department, College, and university from the view expressed therein.’
In another e-mail, Ann Mester, associate dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, wrote that she believes ‘the e-mails sent by Dr. Howell violate university standards of inclusivity, which would then entitle us to have him discontinue his teaching arrangement with us.’
Inclusivity? What about U. of Illinois’ ‘inclusivity’ of traditional Catholic students and students who adhere to traditional Judeo-Christian morality? ‘Diversity’ has become a code-word for punishing those who dissent from liberal, pro-homosexuality groupthink. Please read the excellent e-letter below on National Moral Law by Prof. Howell. And take action to urge the University of Illinois to correct this injustice.—Peter LaBarbera, www.aftah.org ”
(I plan to post the Professor’s e-mail and the student’s e-mail tomorrow.)
In my last post, the material mentioned the dismissal of Catholic professor Kenneth Howell by the University of Illinois. I have received several e-mails from Americans For Truth concerning this matter. Tonight, portions of the first e-mail received.
“From: Americans For Truth
Sent: Jul 12, 2010 6:26 PM
To: aft-update@americansfortruth.com
Subject: The E-mail that Got Prof. Kenneth Howell Fired at U. of Illinois
The E-Mail that Got Dr. Kenneth Howell Fired at U. of Illinois
READ IT ONLINE: http://americansfortruth.com/news/the-e-mail-that-got-dr-kenneth-howell-fired-at-u-of-illinois.html
Dr. Kenneth Howell, Adjunct Associate Professor of Religion, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, was fired after a liberal student complained about an e-mail he sent to his students explaining Natural Moral Law.
By Peter LaBarbera
The University of Illinois has fired Dr. Kenneth Howell, a Catholic adjunct religion professor who was doing his job of teaching a class on Catholicism—after a liberal student complained to the university about an e-mail Howell sent to his students explaining Natural Moral Law. (The professor’s instructive e-mail and the student’s complaint e-mail are reproduced below.)
TAKE ACTION: Contact Michael Hogan, the University of Illinois’s new president, and urge him to reinstate Prof. Howell immediately: phone: (217) 333-6400; Fax: (217) 333-5733. Tell President Hogan that Howell’s firing is a nationwide advertisement that the University of Illinois is bigoted toward and intolerant of people of faith—giving lie to U-I’s mission statement to be “inclusive” and to ‘treat each other with dignity and respect.’ Board of Trustees: contact the U. of Illinois Bd. of Trustee (217) 333-1920 or write: UIBOT@uillinois.edu.
The U. of Illinois’ ‘religion department’s website says Howell was recognized for excellent teaching in the spring and fall semesters of 2008 and 2009,’ the Champaign News-Gazette reports.
Howell’s termination draws attention to the emerging, cold reality of modern, politically correct America: in cosmopolitan areas and certainly in academia, you are more likely to be terminated, punished or persecuted on the job for opposing homosexuality than for ‘being gay.’
Here we are—on the verge, with our Democrat-controlled Congress, of creating federal employment ‘rights’ based on homosexuality (and transgenderism), and people are being fired merely for expressing their sincere religious beliefs—which, in Howell’s case, was his job. Even as homosexual activists falsely claim that thousands of homosexuals face job losses because of ‘who they are,’ the number of anti-Christian firings is piling up: remember the Allstate firing of Matt Barber? Crystal Dixon?
As you can see from below, Dr. Howell is a clear thinker who was doing what he was paid to do—teaching Catholic morality to his students. The complaint e-mail that got him terminated dismisses Howell’s e-mail as ‘absurd...It sickens me to know that hard-working Illinoisans are funding the salary of a man who does nothing but try to indoctrinate students and perpetuate stereotypes.’ (That’s a good portion of university staffs but they are most likely to be indoctrinating students with libertine trash—a woman has the “right” to MURDER her unborn baby, homosexual behavior is normal and acceptable—and socialistic nonsense—my addition.)
If you want to know about the homo-fascist impulse that dominates so many institutions of ‘higher learning’ (hah!) today, here are the key paragraphs from the News-Gazette story:
In a series of e-mail exchanges between [Robert McKim, head of the U-I religion department] and UI administrators about how to proceed regarding Howell’s teaching and his appointment as an adjunct professor, McKim states he will send a note to Howell’s students and others who were forwarded his e-mail to students, ‘disassociating our department, College, and university from the view expressed therein.’
In another e-mail, Ann Mester, associate dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, wrote that she believes ‘the e-mails sent by Dr. Howell violate university standards of inclusivity, which would then entitle us to have him discontinue his teaching arrangement with us.’
Inclusivity? What about U. of Illinois’ ‘inclusivity’ of traditional Catholic students and students who adhere to traditional Judeo-Christian morality? ‘Diversity’ has become a code-word for punishing those who dissent from liberal, pro-homosexuality groupthink. Please read the excellent e-letter below on National Moral Law by Prof. Howell. And take action to urge the University of Illinois to correct this injustice.—Peter LaBarbera, www.aftah.org ”
(I plan to post the Professor’s e-mail and the student’s e-mail tomorrow.)
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