LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY horvendile)
I wouldn't usually link to something of unknown provenance but if this is true I find it very disturbing.
A soldier in Iraq went through all the proper channels to organize an meeting of atheists. A Fundamentalist Christian Major attended and berated and threatened the other attendees all enlisted men.
Science Blog.com: Atheists Mistreated in Iraq.
That Major needs to be disciplined. I am not going to prejudge the army's response. Unfortunately i doubt I'll ever find out what it it.
DOD Report on officers participation in Christian Embassy video
LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY wyldraven) ( Excerpt. Click Headline for full story. )A copy of the video can be found at the above link as well. question of academic freedom at Ave Maria Law School
LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY egretplume) Safranek and other professors who disagree with the dean acknowledge that they did not favor the move to Florida, but many said that they were responsible in asking questions (to which they never received good answers) about how such a move would improve the academic program. Regardless of their views on moving to Florida, they said that the crisis facing the law school has to do with squelching of dissent and a very narrow view of authority and Catholic thinking. “Tom Monaghan and Dobranski view Catholicism as co-existing with the right wing of the Republican party, which means a 1920s-era, free market capitalism, exploitation of workers and employees, abuse of employees and their families — all is OK in the name of God, because God approves you if you are rich and powerful,” he [Safranek] said. |