Queer at Notre Dame? Welcome to the battleground

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Wednesday January 25, 2006 · 8:39 AM PST

2006/01/25 · 08:39

We all know that one of the key targests of the religious rights War on Freedom in this country is the university campus. Professors are being watched from Los Angeles to New York; conservative students are snitching on their liberal teachers and, increasingly confident, are hijacking classroom discussion; liberal professors are made nervous, because once the huge rightist netroot cyber-culture out there gets ahold of a story, they are bombarded with hatemail from across the nation. University administrators and department heads who sponsor events that are considered anathema by the christian right get the same treatment. So: does a university cave? Or stand up and fight?

In the case of Notre Dame, which has, until recently, had a long history of standing up to the crazies, whether it be McCarthyism or the Ku Klux Klan, we appear to have just witnessed the opening salvo in a new battle in the ongoing fight between academic freedom and the religious right. Read More

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