Appeals court rules against university that forced prof to call a man 'miss'

First Amendment forbids such 'alarming power to compel ideological conformity'

By Bob UnruhMarch 27, 2021 

In a rebuke to the "woke" ideology permeating academia, a federal appeals court ruled a university violated the First Amendment when it punished a professor who declined to call a man "miss." The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's dismissal of a lawsuit by philosphy professor Nicholas Meriwether against Shawnee State University in Ohio. 

"The university punished Meriwether because he declined a male student’s demand to be referred to as a woman, with feminine titles and pronouns," explained the Alliance Defending Freedom, which represented the professor. The court ruled that, based on the allegations in the complaint, the university violated Meriwether’s First Amendment rights............To Read More...