The University of North Carolina-Wilmington (UNC) is paying a steep price for discriminating against a Christian professor. More than $710,000 to be exact.
That's on top of the previous sanctions against UNC. In April, a federal court ordered the UNC to promote a professor to the rank of full professor, a position it originally denied him, and to pay him $50,000 in back pay.
The victory started in March, when a jury found that university officials had retaliated against criminology professor Mike Adams for expressing conservative views in his opinion columns, books and speeches when those officials denied him a promotion in 2006.
The order in Adams v. The Trustees of the University of North Carolina–Wilmington from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Southern Division, states, "The court hereby orders the defendants confer upon plaintiff full professorship as of the date of this order, with pay and benefits in the future to relate back to August 2007, when plaintiff's 2006 promotion application would have gone into effect had it been successful."
In 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit determined that the First Amendment protects the opinion columns that Adams published, saying that "no individual loses his ability to speak as a private citizen by virtue of public employment. ... Adams' columns addressed topics such as academic freedom, civil rights, campus culture, sex, feminism, abortion, homosexuality, religion and morality. Such topics plainly touched on issues of public, rather than private, concern."
A former atheist, Adams frequently received accolades from his colleagues after the university hired him as an assistant professor in 1993 and promoted him to associate professor in 1998. His conversion to Christianity in 2000 impacted his views on political and social issues. Subsequently, the university subjected Adams to a campaign of academic persecution that culminated in his...
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