Cleveland, OH, June 30, 2004 -- A philosophy professor, Professor James Tuttle, who was punished by his administration and stripped of his classes for disclosing his religious viewpoint to students has filed suit against Lakeland Community College in Ohio, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education reported Wednesday. David French, president of the Foundation representing Tuttle's rights, asked: "Does the college ask feminist professors to disguise their feminism or atheist professors to hide their atheism?"
Interesting. You can openly ridicule the Christian Faith in class, you can push Marxism or feminism or postmodernism or atheism on your students, you can offer classes on Buddhism, Native American religion, Witchcraft, New Ageism, and the Occult. Or you can pretend to be completely "objective" or "neutral" and to teach from "the point of view of nowhere." But try to be a professor of some integrity and tell your students up front what your pre-theoretical commitments are so they understand your perspective, and you get yourself stripped of your classes and punished. And this is a free country?
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