http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/09/15/david-french-deference-do-they-really-deserve-it/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/09/15/david-french-deference-do-they-really-deserve-it/#comments Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:49:01 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=72300 David French writing at Speak Up Movement / University: In the aftermath of CLS v. Martinez, we’ve been seeing quite a bit of discussion about 'deference' — the idea that courts should give public universities wide room to make its own decisions. As Charlotte Allen so ably noted, a distorted concept of deference has been applied to ratify extreme forms of viewpoint discrimination and is now being used to try to insulate even speech codes from constitutional scrutiny. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/09/15/david-french-deference-do-they-really-deserve-it/feed/ 0