We are Winning Battles.
STATEWIDE
Ignoring tens of millions of leftist attack ads, Oklahomans just elected a Governor and State Superintendent of Public Instruction who have every intention of ridding our classrooms of that which would have been considered an abomination by the historic standards of Western values.
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UNIVERSITY of OKLAHOMA
We also won a victory last week at O.U. Through a conversation with one of the O.U. Regents, I learned that the O.U. Board of Regents just adopted the Chicago Statement.
THE CHICAGO STATEMENT
In July of 2014, University of Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer and Provost Eric D. Isaacs called for a policy “articulating the University’s overarching commitment to free, robust, and uninhibited debate and deliberation among all members of the University’s community.”
The “Chicago Statement” was
adopted in January of 2015.
Here is a truncated version of the principles adopted by the University of Chicago in 2015 and last week by the University of Oklahoma:
Education should not be intended to make
people comfortable, it is meant to make them think.
Universities should be expected to provide the conditions
within which hard thought, and therefore strong
disagreement, independent judgment, and the questioning
of stubborn assumptions, can flourish in an environment
of the greatest freedom
Because the University is committed to free and
open inquiry in all matters, it guarantees all members
of the University community the broadest
possible latitude to speak, write,
listen, challenge, and learn.
It is not the proper role of the University to attempt to shield individuals from ideas and opinions they find unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive.
Mutual respect can never be used as a justification for
closing off discussion of ideas, however offensive or
disagreeable those ideas may be to
some members of our community.
Find more here.
Come Wednesday to see first hand what
God is doing in our state and in America!
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