The Extreme Liberal Bias Against Phil Mitchell of CU

A University of Colorado professor has lost his teaching position because of his outspoken views and controversial personal beliefs—and it's not Ward Churchill. Most Americans have no doubt heard of Churchill, the CU ethnic studies professor who compared the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to Nazis. But he still has his job. Phil Mitchell, a conservative Christian, does not. His offense? He assigned his history class to read "In His Steps" by Charles Sheldon, the book which in which the phrase "What would Jesus do?" was coined. Mitchell said he was immediately terminated when one student complained to the history department about the assignment.

Interesting bias going on here. Colorado University led a blind eye over "Prof" Churchill's comment when he described the World Trade Center victims as "little Eichmanns," a reference to Adolph Eichmann, who carried out Hitler's plan to exterminate Europe's Jews during World War II. But instead Colorado University's officials came down on Professor Mitchell for having a class assignment to read "In His Steps" all because of one (if at best a few) student complained. Yet C.U. officials hardly ever listened to Sophomore Matt Coppo's complaint of Churchill who lost his father, Joseph Coppo Jr., in the World Trade Center attacks, and was angered over the invitation to Churchill.

"Knowing that I'm paying for a person to disrespect my father, it doesn't go over too well in my mind," Coppo said.

And Phil Mitchell knows all too well of what and why C.U. officials are trying to do.

"They know what they're doing," Phil Mitchell said of University of Colorado officials. "They're freezing out conservative ideas; they're freezing out conservative professors."

Indeed. So much for academic freedom.

UPDATE: More important points here from another blogger, and he's not a fan of evangelical Christianity.