2008-07-10 Letter to An Administrator

{{#vardefine:keylist|}}{{#vardefine:Date|2008-07-10}}{{#vardefine:keylist|{{#var:keylist}}\Date}}{{#vardefine:Date.disp|2008-07-10}}{{#vardefine:Date.disp|[[{{#var:Date}}]]}}{{#vardefine:Topics|\2008 sacred wafer scandal\PZ Myers/letters supporting\Hank Fox/posts}}{{#vardefine:keylist|{{#var:keylist}}\Topics}}{{#vardefine:Topics.disp|\2008 sacred wafer scandal\PZ Myers/letters supporting\Hank Fox/posts}}{{#vardefine:URL|http://hankfox.com/?p=233}}{{#vardefine:keylist%7C{{#var:keylist}}\URL}}{{#vardefine:URL.disp%7Chttp://hankfox.com/?p=233}}{{#vardefine:Title%7CLetter to An Administrator}}{{#vardefine:keylist|{{#var:keylist}}\Title}}{{#vardefine:Title.disp|Letter to An Administrator}}{{#vardefine:Text|“The action would set a precedent that would affect American higher education indefinitely into the future. No college professor, no college administrator, would be safe from such witch hunts by emboldened extremists, and universities might become testing grounds for the setting of fascistic benchmarks which educators would have to meet... in piety, in patriotism, in whatever field the screamers-of-the-day chose to set. .. I see all of this as the final harvest of the Bush White House years. The fools who swept him into office, and the fools who defended him and his anti-intellectual cohort, would win a significant victory that would complete the erosion of civil liberties in the United States – including, profoundly, the one about religious freedom.”}}{{#vardefine:keylist|{{#var:keylist}}\Text}}{{#vardefine:Text.disp|“The action would set a precedent that would affect American higher education indefinitely into the future. No college professor, no college administrator, would be safe from such witch hunts by emboldened extremists, and universities might become testing grounds for the setting of fascistic benchmarks which educators would have to meet... in piety, in patriotism, in whatever field the screamers-of-the-day chose to set. .. I see all of this as the final harvest of the Bush White House years. The fools who swept him into office, and the fools who defended him and his anti-intellectual cohort, would win a significant victory that would complete the erosion of civil liberties in the United States – including, profoundly, the one about religious freedom.”}} {{#xploop:{{#var:Topics}}||}} {{#xploop:{{#var:keylist}}|\n* $s$: \o#var:$s$.disp\c}}

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