PZ Myers Should be Fired for Labeling Aborted Babies as ‘Meat':  A Debate
      

Tomorrow night, Tuesday Feb 1st, for our next Knights of Contention, we will debate the following proposition:  PZ Myers Should be Fired!

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His latest incendiary remarks involve dismissing unborn children (he calls them fetuses) as mere 'meat' that practical, scientific minded individuals are indifferent to.   He also made news for his over the top, foaming at the mouth mockery of the Catholic faith regarding the elements of the eucharist smuggled out by what appeared to be a budding atheist activist.   PZ Myer's frequently visited blog is permeated with crude, rude, crass and sometimes positively fascistic ravings.   Oh, and by the way he is professor at the University of Minnesota.

So, the issues to be debated are:  Are there limits to academic freedom?  Does a person or institution supported by the public dime have an obligation to show a modicum of respect to the public it allegedly serves?  Does the public have the right to speak to the values they want their public institutions to transmit- or not?  (PZ and his defenders are likely to manifest great hypocrisy on this point and others since they have no problem actively fighting and denouncing proponents of Intelligent Design and Creationism.)  
         

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