Marquette University is sending a message to students and faculty who support Catholic doctrine regarding marriage: if you oppose gay marriage, better keep your mouth shut. In November a teaching assistant berated a student and told him that he could not say anything against gay marriage because it might offend other students – and that opposition to gay marriage could be considered homophobic. “You don’t have a right in this class to make homophobic comments,” teaching assistant Cheryl Abbate told the unnamed student. John McAdams, a tenured associate professor at the school, was the first to expose the incident on his “Marquette Warrior” blog. He wrote a scathing commentary about Abbate and staunchly defended the young student. “Like the rest of academia, Marquette is less and less a real university,” he wrote. “And when gay marriage cannot be discussed -- certainly not a Catholic university.” McAdams soon discovered how true that statement was. On Tuesday, he was placed under investigation, suspended and banned from campus. “You are relieved of all teaching duties and all other faculty activities,” Dean Richard Holz wrote to McAdams in a letter. “You are to remain off campus during this time.”
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 15:07:43 +0000
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