Professor Kenneth Howell was shown the back door last week for writing about...the back door. And worse, he was writing about Catholicism.
Prompted by an interesting complaint letter (more on this in a subsequent post) dated from early May, Howell was removed for "hate speech" by Robert McKim, chair of the Religious Department. McKim is conveniently out of the country at the moment.
No mention of the case yet by FIRE, but the Alliance Defense Fund and the AAUP have both offered legal and moral support, respectively, for Professor Howell.
Given the recently exposed developments of behind-the-scenes shenanigans by the U of ILL in recent months, the developments of this story will be fun to watch as the facts continue to come to light-a process that the UI always finds extremely deplorable.
The case recalls the time when Acton Gordon was fired for printing the Jylland-Posten Mohammad Cartoons.
Posted by Hound No. 9
(Update 7-10-10 23:00pm):
The UIUC Atheists, Agnostics, and Freethinkers have posted that they too find the administrations actions wrong.
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