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Marquette is a Roman Catholic institution affiliated with the Jesuit order, one member of which is Pope Francis.\u00a0 According to Catholic author Howard Kainz, Marquette has suspended and banned from campus a tenured professor for saying that arguments against gay marriage should be allowed to be discussed in class. \u00a0 Meanwhile, a theology professor who advocates abortion and now considers himself an atheist <\/a>keeps teaching, with no questions asked.<\/p>\n

From Howard Kainz, Marquette and L\u2019affaire McAdams \u2013 The Catholic ThingThe Catholic Thing<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A graduate student in philosophy, Cheryl Abbate, teaching a course on ethics at Marquette University, was discussing John Rawls\u2019 \u201cEqual Liberty\u201d principle, which affirms individual freedom unless the rights of others are impugned.<\/p>\n

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When Abbate asked in class for examples where this principle might be employed, one student offered the example of bans on same-sex marriage as flouting the principle. After class, a student recorded a conversation with Abbate on his smartphone (legal in Wisconsin and thirty-seven other states). He complained to her that discussion of same-sex marriage had been too abruptly cut off in class, and offered some arguments he thought reasonable against same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n

Abbate responded that the discussion of certain topics would be \u201cinappropriate,\u201d including \u201csexist\u201d or \u201cracist\u201d opinions. She reminded the student that if he did not want to avoid bringing up inappropriate topics, he could withdraw from the class. He did, and expressed his disappointment about his apparent muzzling to tenured Professor of Political Science, John McAdams, who sided with the student in his conservative and independent blog, and criticized the philosophy instructor for unnecessarily restraining the free speech of her students.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of supporting messages and condemnations ensued for both McAdams and Abbate, not only from Marquette, but from other parts of the country. Some included insults or invectives. In the aftermath, McAdams has been suspended with pay, his courses for the Spring semester have been cancelled, and he has been prohibited by administrators from setting foot on the campus. . . .<\/p>\n

McAdams\u2019 suspension was rather strange for a Catholic University, especially one at which, for example, tenured Professor Daniel Maguire, nationally famous for his pro-abortion views, regularly teaches in the theology department without any restrictions. Do faculty statutes allow blatant opposition to Catholic teachings, but fail to support the academic freedom of a tenured professor to voice an opinion about what can be said or not in class discussions?<\/p>\n

Notice that Prof. McAdams was not opposing gay marriage; he was simply advocating that the issue should be open to discussion.\u00a0 His cause was academic freedom and the freedom of expression.\u00a0 But that was enough to get his classes cancelled and to get him banned from campus.<\/p>\n

Now I know that reports about campus disputes can often get distorted and that there are often two sides to the story.\u00a0 Maybe there is more to this than it appears.\u00a0 Does anyone know?<\/p>\n

Still, the thought that a Catholic university would consider a Catholic teaching\u2013namely, that marriage is between a man and a woman\u2013so abhorrent that it may not even be brought up in class, while not questioning a professor who flagrantly defies the church\u2019s pro-life teachings, is exceedingly strange.<\/p>\n

What is<\/em> a Catholic university\u2013or a Lutheran university or a Baptist university or a Christian university\u2013if it is indistinguishable from secular schools?\u00a0 And what is a secular university if it rules certain discussions out of bounds in favor of its own orthodoxy?<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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