Academic Freedom Under Fire

St. Philip’s College in San Antonio, Texas, fired Dr. Johnson Varkey, a former adjunct professor who taught biology at the institution for nearly 20 years, for teaching there are only two sexes, male and female, and life begins at conception.

St. Philip’s College is one of five academies in the Alamo Colleges District serving Bexar County, Texas. The ‘D’ in the word District means it is a government institution funded by Bexar County taxpayers.

Dr. Johnson Varkey is a Christian. Dr. Varkey’s faith is important to this discussion. The Christian faith is a unique cornerstone of Western culture. “I’ve been teaching for that school for the last 20 years and without any complaints,” he said to CBN News. “So, I was shocked to see that [termination] letter.”

There are four basic patterns to human organization. (i) Leave all alone and live with chaos and civic anarchy. (ii) Centralized planning by a tyrannical regime. (iii) Tribal. (iv) Judeo-Christian system of ancient Israel that created Western Civilization in general and the United States in particular.

Rabbi Daniel Lapin: The Bible enshrines the title deeds of Western Civilization

The Law

The U.S. Constitution, Article VI: “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land.”

The U.S. Constitution, Amendment I: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press …”

The Declaration of Independence, second paragraph: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”

An organization’s policies do not trump the Supreme Law of the Land. The Alamo College District is a government. As such, the first duty of Alamo College District is to secure Professor Varkey’s inalienable right to the freedom of speech.

Summary

Homosexuals strategically coopt the civil rights movement to present their unnatural sexual behaviors as being ‘persecuted.’ Being a black-skinned person is not the same as being a homosexual. Skin pigmentation is natural. Homosexuality is unnatural. Homosexuals adopted the LGBTQ++ spectrum, pan homosexuality that embraces pederasty, pedophilia, and bestiality. The DEI movement only serves the interests of homosexuals while pretending to represent all persons who are not Christian. DEI is atheism.

John White
Rockwall, Texas

Background information on academies and academics

Definitions

Academy: an institution or society for the advancement of literature, art, or science. Etymology: 16^th Century: via Latin from Greek akadēmeia, name of the grove where Plato taught, named after the legendary hero Akadēmos
Scholarship: earning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
Synonyms:  learning, education, knowledge, schooling
Knowledge: acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles in the mind

Who was Plato? What did he teach in his academy?

The Athenian philosopher Plato (c. 428-347 B.C.) is one of the most important figures of the Ancient Greek world and the entire history of Western thought. In his written dialogues, he conveyed and expanded on the ideas and techniques of his teacher Socrates.

The Academy he founded was by some accounts the world’s first university and in it he trained his greatest student, the equally influential philosopher Aristotle. Plato’s recurring fascination was the distinction between ideal forms and everyday experience, and how it played out both for individuals and for societies. In the “Republic,” his most famous work, he envisioned a civilization governed not by lowly appetites but by the pure wisdom of a philosopher-king.

History.com: Plato

Plato: Against Homosexuality and For Natural Male-Female Relations

Plato’s Republic, Book V:
“And if, I said, the male and female sex appear to differ in their fitness for any art or pursuit, we should say that such pursuit or art ought to be assigned to one or the other of them; but if the difference consists only in women bearing and men begetting children, this does not amount to a proof that a woman differs from a man in respect of the sort of education she should receive; and we shall therefore continue to maintain that our guardians and their wives ought to have the same pursuits.”

Plato’s Republic, Book V:
“You agree then, I said, that men and women are to have a common way of life such as we have described –common education, common children; and they are to watch over the citizens in common whether abiding in the city or going out to war; they are to keep watch together, and to hunt together like dogs; and always and in all things, as far as they are able, women are to share with the men? And in so doing they will do what is best, and will not violate, but preserve the natural relation of the sexes.”

Plato’s Republic, Book VIII:
“The last extreme of popular liberty is when the slave bought with money, whether male or female, is just as free as his or her purchaser; nor must I forget to tell of the liberty and equality of the two sexes in relation to each other.”