MILWAUKEE -- Monday, April 4th was the deadline for Marquette University professor John McAdams, who is currently suspended from the university, to submit a letter of apology in order to get his job back. McAdams instead sent a response to MU President Michael Lovell indicating he is "refusing to compromise his principles by admitting something he believes to be wrong."
John McAdams
This all began when McAdams wrote a blog post critical of a graduate instructor at Marquette University who told an undergraduate student that expressing opposition to gay marriage was homophobic and would not be tolerated in her class.
After the instructor started receiving hate mail, Marquette University suspended McAdams and banned him from campus.
The university then initiated formal proceedings to discipline McAdams.
In a statement, McAdams' attorney, Rick Esenberg with WILL (Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty) said this:
McAdams' letter, dated April 4th, is available HERE.
Lovell on March 31st issued “a call for decency” following what he characterized as a “stream of hate and threatening messages” leveled against the former MU graduate instructor on the internet. This, after MU officials moved to suspend McAdams without pay until January 2017.
Marquette University President Michael Lovell
John McAdams
Marquette University
John McAdams
In a letter dated January 30, 2015, Marquette officials informed McAdams the university was moving to fire him.
In part, the letter reads:
McAdams believed the issue wasn’t what he did, but rather, the belief he expressed.