(Tim) So, speaking only personally, I have a friend fired from the faculty of Greenville College (a small Christian liberal arts college in Southern Illinois where three of my in-laws attended), for defending Christian orthodoxy; another friend denied the Ph.D. by Harvard because his thesis defended Christian orthodoxy; another friend ejected from his Ph.D. program in the history department at UW-Madison (my own alma mater and major department) because of his commitment to Christian orthodoxy; another friend terminated from Covenant College who found the atmosphere there stifling to Reformed orthodoxy; another friend disciplined and publicly humiliated by the Vice Chancellor in the Faculty Council (on which he sat) for holding to Christian orthodoxy (see here, here, and here); and now, another friend has been terminated...
for holding to Christian orthodoxy--this one by the University of Illinois (see here, here, and here).
Of course, in every case the academics who canned these men covered their actions with perfectly legitimate excuses: they had a budget crisis; the student wasn't prepared for his orals; the thesis didn't reflect state of the art scholarship; what the professor had said and written was hate speech and students found it deeply hurtful... There's no end to the subterfuges academics use to cover their aggressive intolerance and hatred of God and His Word.
By God's grace, in some of these cases the American Association of University Professors rode to the rescue and succeeded in defending Christian orthodoxy under the rubric of academic freedom. Thing is, for every prof paid off or reinstated, thousands of other Christian profs learn that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the shame that can't be uttered. And so they don't.
