An excerpt:
Nichol could have defended both the cross and the show and made an important contribution to the withered climate of debate in American higher education. Doing so would have lodged a significant challenge to the prevailing notion that, of all people, young adults in college need a big Mother Hen to protect them even from feeling “uncomfortable” by challenging or offensive ideas, images, and speech. It’s no wonder so many bright, young intellectuals drop like Tennessee Fainting Goats at their first encounter with a racial slur. Years of mollycoddling have taught them it’s something they simply can’t endure.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Mike Adams’ piece today along similar lines. Adams give our pals at the Pope Center a shout-out:
As a result of the team effort, ASU decided to get rid of its speech code without an embarrassing lawsuit. Consider the organizations that were involved in this successful First Amendment mission:
The ACLU: A left-wing civil liberties organization.
The ADF: A conservative Christian civil liberties organization.
DrAdams.org: A fringe group led by a right-wing gun-toting nut job from North Carolina.
The FIRE: A non-partisan free speech organization.
The Pope Center for Higher Education Policy: A libertarian/conservative group in North Carolina.
This left/right/center attack on the unconstitutional speech code at ASU shows that people of different political persuasions can work together, even in today?s fractured political environment.
