The headline on the press release sure sounds like this is a case to be outraged over: “Ill. prof. fired for teaching about Catholic beliefs in class on Catholicism,” says the announcement from the Alliance Defense Fund. Many newspapers articles ran variations of that headline — “University of Illinois Instructor Fired Over Catholic Beliefs,” read one. Framed that way — and plenty of people think that?s exactly how it should be framed — it?s not surprising that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has taken a lot of heat for telling Kenneth Howell, an adjunct, that he is no longer wanted to teach a course on Roman Catholicism, his faith.
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