Professor Ken Howell, who taught Introduction to Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thought at the University of Illinois was fired at the end of spring semester for describing his Catholic beliefs to students via email.

In describing, Natural Moral Law, he wrote in the email, "Natural Moral Law says that Morality must be a response to REALITY." He continued, "In other words, sexual acts are only appropriate for people who are complementary, not the same."

Makes sense IF your understanding of sexual relations is pretty much solely for the means of reproduction. I don't need a professor to spell that out for you. Actually, in this regard, Catholic moral law sounds more like simply natural law, which sounds like (gasp!) science. (Science just wouldn't have any moral implications for doing something the wrong way.)

However, a student complained to religion department chair Robert McKim in May. He wrote in an email, "Teaching a student about the tenets of a religion is one thing... Declaring that homosexual acts violate the natural laws of man is another." The student also described the email as "hate speech."

If you want to teach at the University of Illinois, we sure hope your religious views advocate for homosexuality, because they have no tolerance for religious intolerance.