Today’s feature story at The College Fix highlights the case of Tom Emmer, a former Republican gubernatorial candidate, who says he was denied a teaching position at Minnesota’s Hamline University because of his political beliefs.
Emmer claims that after he reached an agreement with the university to teach a business class, members of the faculty organized a campaign to block his hiring. Allegedly, the opposition arose because his political positions were “incompatible with the university’s mission, specifically his stance on same-sex marriage.”
Colleges go on and on about "diversity", but that mostly applies to skin color or sexual behavior. I like to say that "diversity" on campus is skin deep. When it comes to ideology or political beliefs, these same college demand uniformity. When someone points out the disparities-like a 40:1 democrats to republican ratio in some academic departments, liberal academics usually just brush it with some comment about how conservatives aren't smart enough or just aren't interested in academia. Of course, this is the same kind of "soft bigotry" that liberals rail against in others contexts. Substitute women for republicans(and men for democrats) in the preceeding faculty ratio example, and the typical liberal reaction is very different.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe funny thing is Hamline was founded by the Methodist Church, which since the last General Conference in 2008, still maintains a ban on homosexual marriage and ordination. Really, Hamline, hire Mr. Emmer as a professor, lest he go to another college. Others in the crowded Twin Cities College market just might want his talents.
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