University Must Pay $700K Legal Bill for Retaliating Against Christian Prof
A judge has ordered the University of North Carolina-Wilmington to pay over $700,000 in legal bills incurred by a Christian criminology professor who waged an eight-year battle against the school's campaign of retaliation because of his conservative and religious views.
Earlier this year a jury found that a succession of chairpersons in the university's department of sociology and criminal justice had discriminated against criminology professor Mike Adams after he converted from hardcore atheist to committed conservative Christian. While Adams had received frequent professional accolades from his colleagues, his religious conversion and his conservative political views, which he expressed through a regular nationally syndicated column, didn't play well with the heavily feminist department leadership, which refused to promote him to full professor in 2006, despite Adams' award-winning record of...