News, University of Illinois Instructor Fired Over Catholic Beliefs. (state school, professor, job)

[JD59]

URBANA, Ill. -- The University of Illinois has fired an adjunct professor who taught courses on Catholicism after a student accused the instructor of engaging in hate speech by saying he agrees with the church's teaching that homosexual sex is immoral.

The professor, Ken Howell of Champaign, said his firing violates his academic freedom. He also lost his job at an on-campus Catholic center.

FOXNews.com - University of Illinois Instructor Fired Over Catholic Beliefs)

[LoyalTrust]

It is very wrong that he was fired. Catholicism is against homosexuality. And he was simply agreeing with it. Some universities are very controlling of speech and thought. What they did is wrong.

[BigCur]

Clear violation of academic freedom but not unusual, esp. at big factory state schools.