The University Is Not Welcome to Squelch Conservative or Religious Opinion

University of North Carolina - Wilmington Professor Mike S. Adams

Mike Adams, a professor of criminology at the University of North Carolina - Wilmington, writes fairly provocative, conservative articles at Townhall.com. A former atheist turned Christian, Adams experienced first hand the overbearing pressure from socialist and feminist administrators and faculty at UNCW when he began to write opinion pieces pointing out the flaws in feminist thought. An award-winning and published professor, Adams the school passed him over for promotion. In turn, he sued the school for discrimination.

As part of that lawsuit, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that Adams' writing is protected by the 1st Amendment, overturning the District Court's decision that Adams' writing was not protected speech and that the school could discriminate against him for having beliefs contrary to those of school administration (source).

I've followed this case over the years because of similar anti-conservative, anti-Christian attitudes within the administration at the school where I teach. Too many university administrators and faculty are left-leaning and anti-religion. As I've written in other articles, the almost universal prevalence of leftist ideology within the college system has created several generations of indoctrinated students who tend to be hedonistic, nihilistic, and incapable of determining the differences between inductive and deductive reasoning. (For more on this, read Alan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind and Victor David Hanson's Who Killed Homer?) Students have no practical experience with US foundational principles, adopting instead the ideals of leftist ideology.

This is not mere hyperbole, as Adams' ongoing court case indicates. His is a case where even the concepts of free speech and free exercise of religion are put at risk by an overbearing and severely leftist school administration. Adams has the benefit of the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) to thank for continuing to fight for the proper interpretation of constitutional rights within the courts.

The ADF takes on many such cases of anti-religious bias within the university and other systems and successfully winning back original interpretations of the 1st Amendment. Recently, the ADF successfully took on the ACLU, getting the Supreme Court to throw out the ACLU's attempt to stifle Arizona law on school tax credits because some of the private schools who received donations were Christian schools (source). In effect, the ACLU sued, arguing that private donations to religious schools were unconstitutional. The Supreme Court disagreed with the ACLU, telling them to stop getting into people's private lives in the name of public interest.

A hearty congratulations goes to Mike Adams who is willing to stand up for his beliefs, to the Alliance Defense Fund for putting up the money and attorneys, and to the 4th Circuit Court for slamming the District Court's attempt to stifle free speech.