Tuesday, July 13, 2010

TAKE ACTION! Taxpayer-Funded University Fires Prof for Being Catholic

From Brian Brown of NOM:  bbrown@nationformarriage.org

A public university professor has been fired for confessing he agrees with Christian teachings on sex and marriage.

This is not just an outrage, it’s the explicit beginning of a very new and ugly trend in American life.

Unless you act today, and help us fight back, this will be just the beginning. Click here to take action now!

I’ve never seen a case so clear cut:

Ken Howell was fired from his teaching position at the University of Illinois after a student complained about an email -- sent to students in his course entitled "Modern Catholic Thought" -- in which Professor Howell described Catholic moral thought on sex and marriage.

When the student asked Professor Howell if he agreed with the Church’s teaching, he said yes: only sex between a man and woman united by marriage is morally good. (Click here to read Prof. Howell's email and the AP account of his firing.)

Not only was Ken Howell fired, but the associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts publicly gloated that he deserved to get fired for that email.

The days when a public university can decide "no Catholics need apply" should be long dead and gone. But in truth, if an outrage like this is allowed to stand, all people of faith will have entered a new Dark Age in American life.

If this can happen at a public university, funded by taxpayers, it can happen anywhere. Unless we stop this outrage, teaching while Christian is now a punishable offense.

But our faith is not a form of bigotry. We will not stand idly by as a cloud of darkness descends on this great nation. We will name the hate, we will stand up in love for our right to speak truth to power. And by the grace of God we will win.

Stop the hate today, right now--send an email to the University of Illinois Board of Trustees.
Click here.

Then send this message on to five friends.

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