Ban on free speech (a.k.a. talkin’ Jesus) gone

WorldNetDaily:

A college’s ban on free speech – except for two selected hours per week – has been eliminated in a settlement with the Alliance Defense Fund, which took up the cause on behalf of a student threatened with arrest and expulsion for sharing the story of Jesus.

“Christian students shouldn’t have to face jail and expulsion for expressing their beliefs on a public college campus,” said ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Heather Gebelin Hacker . . .

David French, Senior Counsel and Director ADF’s Center for Academic Freedom, also has this commentary on the National Review Phi Beta Cons Blog: Justice Served in YAF’s Top Academic Abuse of 2008. He writes:

Last December, YAF rolled out its annual list of ‘Academia’s Top 10 Abuses,’ and at the top of the list stood Yuba College in California. Yuba had threatened student Ryan Dozier with arrest and expulsion for peacefully handing out gospel tracts on a campus sidewalk . . .