MILWAUKEE – John McAdams says he will not apologize for expressing his opinion about the need for free speech and academic freedom on the Marquette University campus.

That decision may cost him his job.

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The tenured professor was suspended by Marquette in November 2014 for publishing a blog criticizing a teaching assistant who would not allow a student to speak against gay marriage in class.

The teaching assistant reportedly told the student that he would not be allowed to utter “homophobic” comments – as if anyone who questions the wisdom of legalized gay marriage is automatically a bigot.

McAdams defended the student and criticized teaching assistant Cheryl Abbate, resulting in a public controversy. He was suspended with pay while a university faculty committee reviewed his case.

The committee recently recommended that McAdams continue his suspension through the fall semester of 2016 without pay, then be reinstated in the winter of 2017. University President Michael Lovell accepted that recommendation, but added a few stipulations, including an apology from McAdams.

Lovell wanted McAdams to admit that his “November 9, 2014, blog post was reckless and incompatible with the mission and values of Marquette University and you express deep regret for the harm suffered by our former graduate student and instructor, Ms. Abbate.”

McAdams published another blog on Saturday, announcing that he would not apologize. He reaffirmed that decision in an interview this week with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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Referring to himself as “we,” McAdams posted the following statement:

“The addition of a demand that we abase ourself and issue an apology and sign a loyalty oath to vaguely defined ‘guiding values’ and to the University’s ‘mission’ is obviously a ploy by Marquette to give the administration an excuse to fire us. They have calculated, correctly, that we will do no such thing.

“But the ploy is absolutely transparent, and won’t mitigate the realization that Marquette is an intolerant, politically correct institution whose ‘Catholic mission’ is nothing but a marketing gimmick.”

McAdams state that the president’s ruling makes a mockery of the concepts of academic freedom and free expression on campus.

“These demands are reminiscent of the Inquisition, in which victims who ‘confessed’ they had been consorting with Satan and spreading heresy would be spared execution,” he wrote. “It is bizarre that Lovell can invoke Marquette’s ‘guiding values’ to contravene the black letter guarantees of academic freedom embodied in University Statues.

“Is free speech a ‘guiding value’ of Marquette? Apparently not. Is protecting students who want to argue for Catholic teaching about marriage from bullying a ‘guiding value’ of Marquette? Apparently, it’s not either.

“The Philosophy Department treated the student with hostility when he complained. Marquette had no problem with that. Not only was Abbate not even admonished that she had erred, it was conveyed to her that she had done nothing wrong.”