Illinois professor fired

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Illinois professor fired for giving Catholic teaching on homosexuality.The University of Illinois has fired an adjunct professor for teaching in a class on Catholicism that homosexual acts violate natural moral law.

Dr. Kenneth Howell was informed that he could no longer teach in the university's department of religion. The decision came after a student complained that Howell's statements were “hate speech.”

I think this is fucked up, and here's why...

“Since the Fall of 2001, I have been regularly teaching two courses in the department of religion,” Howell explained. One of the classes, “Introduction to Catholicism,” includes an explanation of Natural Moral Law as affirmed by the Church as well as an application of Natural Law Theory to a disputed social issue.

“Most of those semesters, my chosen topic was the moral status of homosexual acts,” he explained.

Howell said he taught the Catholic Church's position on homosexuality. He summed it up by saying, “A homosexual orientation is not morally wrong just as no moral guilt can be assigned to any inclination that a person has. However, based on natural moral law, the Church believes that homosexual acts are contrary to human nature and therefore morally wrong.”

WTF? If he was hired to teach Catholicism, isn't he supposed to tell the students what the Catholic Church's tenets are? He even stated his own position differing from the church, which I don't think was necessary, but certainly permissible.

Some might say the Catholic Church's position is a hate position, and I couldn't argue with that, but to explain it to the students certainly isn't "hate speech". Seems to me, the offended party has no business being in college.

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