A Clarion Call to this Generation

Below are some pertinent letters to the editor at World Net Daily which were written in response to the false accusations of harassment by gay professors against an OSU librarian.

I say it's about time that the truth comes out so that the continual intolerance hurled towards conservative Christians on university campuses gets exposed.

I just received a letter from the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) that shared it's goal of pro-activism in confronting incidences like this false accusation against Mr. Savage. Their work will be crucial so that Christians can be rest assured of not being targeted by those who disagree with their free speech rights on college campuses. Such reverse discrimination runs rampant at liberal universities. Incidences like this should never happen again!

Christine

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Teacher praises Kupelian's book

I am a daily reader of WorldNetDaily, a high-school English teacher, and I have found Kupelian's book to be clarion call to this generation – WAKE UP! His writing is masterful.

This book will most surely be a watershed treatise on the state of the union and how we sank to the level of moral depravity in which we find ourselves. Thank you, Mr. Kupelian, for your earnest work and your perception of the pitfalls of a godless society.

W.D.

OSU 'staggeringly off-base' in response to librarian

I found the letter to Mr. Savage from T. Glenn Hill of the Ohio State University, Mansfield, human resources department to be staggeringly off-base in several respects.

First, it apparently does not suggest that any punitive actions are being considered against the three men who knowingly, falsely accused Mr. Savage in order to have him fired for reasons that have nothing to do with harassment.

Second, it apparently ignores the fact that a much larger number of their faculty was willing to destroy his career using that knowingly false accusation.

Third, the phrase "However well intentioned the actions ..." attempts to imply that the nasty, dishonest attack on Mr. Savage was actually a friendly, kindly act.

Fourth, (as your article also points out) putting Dr. Jones in charge of cleaning up the mess, who is the very person who falsely accused Mr. Savage, makes as much sense as having the president nominate the head of the Mafia as the new director of the FBI.

Finally, warning Mr. Savage against retaliation, after informing him that OSU was in agreement that he had not harassed anyone, was incredibly stupid. It is common knowledge that an accused is warned against retaliation only if it is uncertain if harassment occurred, or if it is certain that harassment occurred.

This response from OSU is incredibly cowardly, wrong-headed and weak. The professors involved seem to have the OSU administration completely cowed, perhaps afraid that they themselves will be the next targets in another left-wing witch hunt at OSU. These professors will doubtlessly be emboldened when they sense the incredible cowardice and weakness of the administrators.

We have recently seen the presidents of Harvard and Colorado State brought down by a single ultra-liberal professor using these same tactics. Despite doing absolutely nothing wrong themselves, these two university presidents fell all over themselves to backpedal, to apologize, and to defend and sing the praises of the very professors who were viciously and dishonestly attacking them.

Joe Hoffman

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Campus Heterophobia

David Limbaugh writes:

"You have to be a semantic contortionist not to realize that any intolerance or hate speech involved in this episode emanated from the professors and their supporting faculty. Then again, conservative thought is obviously not entitled to the same degree of protection, if any, and anti-conservative propaganda is promoted in much of liberal academia. We can only imagine what goes on in these professors' classrooms that we don't hear about.

But Savage's attorney, David French, said that merely dropping the complaint doesn't repair the damage to his client's reputation and career. He is considering litigation.

I think he should seriously consider going forward with litigation against the people and institutions involved. Radical homosexual groups routinely characterize the utterance of opposing opinions – just as in this incident – as hate speech and seek to ban it. They frequently seek to have the expression of opinions running counter to their dogma, branded as harassment or bullying, to make it easier to stigmatize those daring to disagree. Well, in this case – if the allegations are true – the professors appear to be guilty of that which they were accusing Savage: harassment."

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Mike S. Adams provides his own recommended letter of support for Mr. Savage within this article which he intends to send to the entire OSU faculty...

There are about a dozen comments to Mike's column, but the best one (so far) has to be "Ironies abound" written by FWPeretto:

"What really makes this case stand out in my mind is that the Kupelian book, which Savage's persecutors most loathed and set out after him for, describes precisely the sort of tactic they used against him as a principal weapon in homosexual activism. The operative term is jamming: "Psychological terrorism meant to silence expression of, or even support for, dissenting opinion." (Paul Rondeau, Regent University) This tactic is explicitly recommended to homosexual activists by "After The Ball," Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen's seminal book on strategy and tactics for the homosexual movement.

Plainly, these folks don't want anyone blowing the whistle on their little game.

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Added on at 2:00 p.m.

I just saw two videos via Biola University's "Eaglevision" archives that demonstrates a willingness to dialogue between the faculty, students and the visiting Soulforce Equality-Ride Group that visited this conservative Christian university on April 4th, 2006.

Click on this Archive link, scroll down, and click on the April 4th and 5th broadcast dates to view various interviews of students to see for yourself that differing viewpoints can be discussed in a way that is non-combative, not meant to indoctrinate opposing sides and done in a respectful way.

If only such things were possible at liberal university college campuses!