Enough is Enough

From today's Columbus Dispatch:

"Marion Sen. Larry A. Mumpers "academic bill of rights for higher education" would prohibit instructors at public or private universities from "persistently" discussing controversial issues in class or from using their classes to push political, ideological, religious or anti-religious views.

Senate Bill 24 also would prohibit professors from discriminating against students based on their beliefs and keep
universities from hiring, firing, promoting or giving tenure to instructors based on their beliefs.

Mumper, a Republican, said many professors undermine the values of their students because "80 percent or so of them (professors) are Democrats, liberals or socialists or card-carrying Communists " who attempt to indoctrinate students."

So, who gets to define "controversial," or "political," "religious," "anti-religious" (does that leave ANYTHING to say) or "persistent"? The Government? A so-called proponent of "Small Government" wants to set up a monitoring station in Columbus to measure what gets said on campuses? What's next--building a Red Square in Columbus for military parades and calling him our "comrade"?

Mumper seems like the only card-carrying Communist in this debate. As far as I can tell, I haven't heard about one legitimate hiring, firing, protion, or tenure based on this trumped up bias.

You can give our fair representative an email by looking up the address on Mumper's homepage.