By David Deming
American Thinker
October 13, 2018
In recent days, the nation was transfixed by the smear campaign launched against Judge Brett Kavanaugh. In a desperate attempt to block his appointment to the Supreme Court, rabid leftists made baseless and fantastic claims. A similar program of vilification recently forced a conservative Christian professor at the University of Oklahoma to resign from his administrative position. The intolerance of the political left has grown so extreme that leftists no longer recognize freedom of conscience.
Last month, the campus newspaper at the University of Oklahoma, the O.U. Daily, began a systematic attack on law professor Brian McCall for his religious and social views. Once an average college newspaper, in recent years, the Daily has degenerated into a publication entirely devoted to promoting radical leftist ideology. The young staff live in an anxious and insecure world permeated with racism, homophobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia, inequality, and social injustice. A few years ago, the Daily became the laughingstock of the nation for publishing an editorial arguing that nude-colored women’s underwear is racist.
Professor McCall was criticized for being editor of Catholic Family News. The apparent source of the O.U. Daily’s inspiration was the infamous Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The SPLC categorizes Catholic Family News as a “hate group” because a former editor allegedly expressed anti-Semitic opinions. The SPLC itself has been described as a “hate group” because of its radical leftist orientation and its relentless war on conservative and religious groups. The SPLC is so…