by Hilary White
MANSFIELD, April 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Officials at the Ohio State University Mansfield campus are facing a lawsuit from librarian Scott Savage whom they were investigating for “sexual harassment” after he suggested a number of politically conservative books for a freshman reading program.
The complaint has been levelled at three professors who led the charge against Savage. Almost the entire faculty voted, 21-0, for the investigation.
The four offending books were: “The Marketing of Evil” by David Kupelian about media efforts to promote the culture of death; “The Professors” by David Horowitz, profiling 101 university professors who lead the rest in leftist and anti-American rhetoric; “Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis” by Bat Ye’or, predicting the Islamicization of Europe; and “It Takes a Family,” by Catholic Senator Rick Santorum, that promotes the traditional nuclear family as the best environment for children. (All the books can be purchased from the World Net Daily website:
https://shop.wnd.com/store/department.asp?DEPARTMENT_ID=6
The university has announced that it would be dropping the investigation but only after the case received national media attention. World Net Daily reports that the complaints derived mainly from three professors – two of them openly homosexual – who filed a complaint of discrimination and harassment, contending Kupelian’s book was “hate literature” which “threatened” them and made them feel “unsafe” on campus.
Savage’s lawyer with the Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund, said that the damage to his career and reputation has already been done whatever decision the university comes to.
The cease and desist letter sent to the OUS Mansfield administration said, “OSU has used university resources to defame Mr. Savage by publicly and frivolously labelling him a sexual harasser. Now the university is conducting an unconscionable investigation of a man who has done nothing more than engage in constitutionally protected speech.”
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