Chapman Faces Pressure to Fire Professor Who Spoke at Trump Rally
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John Eastman, a conservative legal scholar who raised widely discredited questions about whether Kamala Harris could serve as vice president as the child of immigrants, is under fire again for appearing onstage with Rudy Giuliani at the rally that preceded Wednesday’s attack on the Capitol. Giuliani called for “trial by combat.” Eastman did not object and told the crowd that the 2020 presidential election was illegitimate.
Asked if he supported the insurrection, Eastman said via email, “What a ridiculous question. Of course I do not condone the violence at the capitol. But it was not a riot. It was perhaps a hundred thugs out of a quarter-million or half-million people.” Eastman also said that some of the rioters were “clearly Antifa,” even though the Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Friday that there was no evidence of that.
Chapman University refuses to fire professor who spoke at DC pro-Trump rally
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Chapman University professor John Eastman stands next to Rudy Giuliani, personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, during a rally near the White House in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021.Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Chapman University, the private university based in Orange, California, will not fire a professor who spoke at a rally for President Donald Trump that was staged mere hours before the Capitol siege.
Law professor John Eastman was a speaker at the Stop the Steal rally Wednesday, where he repeated multiple falsehoods about fraud in the 2020 election during his rambling, three-minute address.
January 8, 2021
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The following is a statement President Daniele Struppa sent to the Chapman University community on Friday, Jan. 8.
On Wednesday, we all watched as fellow Americans acted as domestic terrorists and attacked the United States Capitol Building. Beyond the incomprehensible assault on our democracy, this outrageous act resulted in the loss of five lives and injured many more. In the aftermath of that horrific day, the nation now turns its attention to what led to these terrorist acts and the response to those actions, as does our own Chapman community.
As this national crisis continues to unfold, it is a critical time for us to come together, support each other, and to reaffirm our own values as individuals and as an institution. As an academic community we are rooted in freedom of expression and the free exchange of ideas; however, we condemn those that incite violence, those who attempt to justify it under the veneer of political discourse, and those who u
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Decision could impact freedom of faculty, ability of evangelical institutions to hire and fire.
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One of professor Margaret DeWeese-Boyd’s students thought she did a “great job of connecting class materials with Christian faith” in her Gordon College social work course. Another said that after nearly 30 years teaching at the Christian liberal arts school, DeWeese-Boyd excelled at “incorporating our faith into our materials, calling us to be relevant and apply our materials to our Christian life.”
Does that mean she was a minister?
A Massachusetts court will weigh that question in a hearing on January 4. The decision in the lawsuit between the former professor and Gordon College could have far-reaching implications for other evangelical institutions of higher education and the many people who work for them.