Sunday, July 18, 2010

SHOCKING NEWS: Catholic professor gets FIRED for articulating Catholic teaching -- Register your protest here

Your voice can make a HUGE difference in this case…

Please join me in urging the president of the University of Illinois to stop the persecution and reinstate Prof. Kenneth Howell who was recently fired – yes, dismissed – for simply repeating Catholic moral teaching on marriage and Natural Law.

Sign your name here in peaceful protest

http://www.tfpstudentaction.net/campaigns/protests/reinstate-dr-kenneth-howell.html

According to press reports, this is what happened:

Adjunct Prof. Kenneth Howell, a Catholic, explained to his students that homosexual vice violates Natural Law during a religion class "Introduction to Catholicism."  However, one of his students accused him of committing a "hate crime."

Soon after he was fired from his teaching position.

(Fox News has more details here)
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/09/university-illinois-instructor-fired-catholic-beliefs/

Are we seeing the beginning of a new religious persecution?  A "diversity" dictatorship?  Why is the truth being silenced in the halls that cry "academic freedom"?

Sign your name here in peaceful protest

http://www.tfpstudentaction.net/campaigns/protests/reinstate-dr-kenneth-howell.html

Can you do me a favor?

Please invite your friends to join this peaceful protest.  The easiest way to spread the word is to forward this email to all your friends and family. (Non-Catholics can sign too.)

Thank you for defending the truth,

Many good students on campus are calling for Prof. Howell's return.  You can help them defend moral values by signing and spreading this email to your friends.  Thank you.

Contact information (Please be polite yet firm)

President of the University of Illinois:

Michael J. Hogan
Office of President
364 Henry Administration Building, MC-346
506 S Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801-3649
presmike@uillinois.edu or mjhogan@uillinois.edu or uipres@uillinois.edu

Chancellor and Provost (Interim) of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

Robert A. Easter
Office of Chancellor
317 Swanlund Administration Building, MC-304
601 E John Street
Champaign, IL 61820-5711
reaster@illinois.edu

Head of the Department of Religion:

Professor Robert J. McKim
Department of Religion
3080 Foreign Languages Building, MC-166
707 S Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801-3643
rmckim@illinois.edu

Board of Trustees
UIBOT@uillinois.edu

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