{"id":2127,"date":"2008-07-25T14:46:14","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T19:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2008-07-25T14:46:14","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T19:46:14","slug":"jimmy-akin-p-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/07\/jimmy-akin-p-z\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/jimmyakin.typepad.com\/defensor_fidei\/2008\/07\/p-z-myers-must.html\">Jimmy Akin: &#8220;P. Z. Myers Must Be Fired&#8221;<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Background can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmyakin.typepad.com\/defensor_fidei\/2008\/07\/p-z-myers-must.html\">here.<\/a\/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>P. Z. Myers has demonstrated that he will go out of his way to offend the sensibilities of anybody who holds anything sacred, to treat whatever they hold sacred with public contempt. The problem thus is not limited to Catholics and Muslims. Since, in Myers own words, &#8220;Nothing must be held sacred,&#8221; and since he is willing to desecrate anything that others do hold sacred, the university must conclude that Myers is willing not only to outrage Catholic and Muslim students, parents, alumni, and citizens but members of any other group as well.<br \/>\nMyers is thus incapable of effectively carrying out his mission as an educator and his position must be terminated.<br \/>\nHe also is in violation of the University of Minnesota <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.umn.edu\/regents\/policies\/academic\/Code_of_Conduct.pdf\">Code of Conduct<\/a>, which holds that faculty members &#8220;must be committed to the highest ethical standards of conduct&#8221; (II:2) and that &#8220;Ethical conduct is a fundamental expectation for every community member. In practicing and modeling ethical conduct, community members are expected to: act according to the highest ethical and professional standards of conduct [and] be personally accountable for individual actions&#8221; (III:1). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Contact info:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTo voice your opinion on this subject, contact the offices of the president and the chancellor:<br \/>\nPresident Robert H. Bruininks<br \/>\n202 Morrill Hall<br \/>\n100 Church Street S.E.<br \/>\nUniversity of Minnesota<br \/>\nMinneapolis, MN 55455<br \/>\nVia phone: 612-626-1616<br \/>\nVia fax: 612-625-3875<br \/>\nVia e-mail: upres@umn.edu<br \/>\nChancellor Jacqueline Johnson<br \/>\n309 Behmler Hall<br \/>\n600 East 4th Street<br \/>\nMorris, MN 56267<br \/>\n320-589-6020<br \/>\nE-mail: grussing@morris.umn.edu<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background can be read here. P. Z. Myers has demonstrated that he will go out of his way to offend the sensibilities of anybody who holds anything sacred, to treat whatever they hold sacred with public contempt. The problem thus is not limited to Catholics and Muslims. Since, in Myers own words, &#8220;Nothing must be&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/07\/jimmy-akin-p-z\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jimmyakin.typepad.com\/defensor_fidei\/2008\/07\/p-z-myers-must.html\">Jimmy Akin: &#8220;P. Z. Myers Must Be Fired&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-st-blogs","category-current-events","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}