Pro-Life Professor Wins Discrimination Lawsuit Against University of North Carolina
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More than seven years after filing a lawsuit against the University of North Carolina-Wilmington for religious and political discrimination, pro-life professor Mike Adams won his case in March. He is now using his case to make people more aware of this type of bias, which is rampant on college campuses.
Back in 2006, Adams, an associate professor, applied for promotion to full professor. He had published more peer-reviewed articles than most of his colleagues and had won three teaching awards, including Faculty Member of the Year. But Adams was nonetheless denied a promotion, and UNCW refused to provide a written explanation.
Why? Adams believed that it was because he is also an evangelical Christian and a popular conservative author at Townhall.com. After years of litigation, a jury in a U.S. District Court agreed.
“They concluded that the University of North Carolina Wilmington retaliated against Dr. Adams by denying him a promotion in 2006 and they retaliated against him because they did not like the views he expressed in his books and columns and speeches,” Adams’s lawyer, Travis Barham, told a local news station. “Basically, they didn’t like what he said in his own time.”
Needless to say, Adams’s colleagues really didn’t like what he had to say about abortion. He’s well-known for attacking abortion in a mocking, satirical fashion – one that drives humorless leftists nuts.
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By Steven Ertelt.
A judge has issued a ruling in the NAACP lawsuit against a black pro-life leader who exposed its pro-abortion views in an article appearing at LifeNews.com.
In February, the NAACP threatened to sue LifeNews.com and Ryan Bomberger, a LifeNews blogger , for a column that took the civil rights organization to task over its abortion position. The NAACP is upset about a column Bomberger wrote at LifeNews titled, “NAACP: National Association for the Abortion of Colored People,” which notes the organization’s 44th Annual Image Awards.
Following the piece, the NAACP sent Bomberger, the director of the Radiance Foundation, and LifeNews a threatening letter claiming infringement on its name and logo for including it in the opinion column. The letter accuses Bomberger (left) and his group, the Radiance Foundation, of “trademark infringement” over an ad campaign that exposes the NAACP’s pro-abortion position.
Stating that while “you are certainly entitled to express your viewpoint, you cannot do so in connection with a name that infringes on the NAACP’s rights,” the letter demands a response within a self-imposed time period.
In response to the letter, Bomberger asked a federal court to declare that the First Amendment protects his and the Radiance Foundation’s exercise of free speech and that his speech does not infringe on any of the NAACP’s trademarks or other rights. The lawsuit does not seek any damages.
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