The tyrannical group called "faculty" :)

The world outside academia is often confused, at best, whenever there are reports of faculty being reprimanded or fired for saying something "wrong" because of the pervasive belief that we faculty have academic freedom.  Yep, we do have freedom, but only if we say what is ruled as the correct thing to say.  If otherwise, it is the tyrannical equivalent to "off with their heads."

Hey, I ought to know this--the faculty body and its leaders ruled that I do not have a right to expression, and also advised their peeps not to ever listen to me.  Yes, academic excommunication :) 

So, it does not surprise me at all that a religion professor--an adjunct--who had been "recognized by the religion department in 2008 and 2009 for being rated an excellent teacher by students" was fired not because he groped students or that he yelled and screamed, but "for saying he agreed with Catholic doctrine on homosexuality."

He was a religion professor in Illinois, and taught Roman Catholicism.  Is it difficult for anybody to imagine that he had his religious beliefs as well?  And he was fired for stating his belief in the context?  Despite the recognition the last two years for the excellent teaching?

Oh well, yet another evidence of the tyrannical ideologues who masquerade as faculty in colleges and universities. I tell you, the real news from academe will be if and when a Marxist professor ever tells students that maybe a liberal democratic economy is not that bad after all :)

(Source: 1, 2, and 3)
ps: No, this post is not because I agree with the Vatican's stand on homosexuality.  I don't care what the Catholic church thought or what the Ayatollah thinks.  Those are for the respective believers to sort out.  I am more worried about the physical and emotional abuse to kids ...
Nor am I one of those in-your-face atheists who wants to convert the believers away from religion.
What worries me is when democratic governments rule on how people ought to live. Like when France decides that a religious garb is illegal. Or when the US Congresses decides that a marriage is only between a man and a woman.  Or when the Anglo-American alliance decides it can freely torture the lives out of anybody it thinks is worth torturing while conducting the War on Terror.

Faith-based thoughts and actions, well, people can always exit those religions if they do not agree with those views ...