Ohio university pays out $400,000 to Christian professor 'for violating his First Amendment Rights'

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16. You missed the lesson in my post about control

It has absolutely nothing to do with pronouns.

My power company could have easily compromised with the activists and said "Okay, we'll take down that nuke plant" because that was the long-term plan anyway. But they did not; felt like they could not. Could not yield any little bit of appearance of decision making being shared outside the corporation. Or that the corporation would yield to pressure from outside.

It is about unquestioned, uncompromisable, and complete control. Without question by anyone. Internal or external.

My power company spent millions to make sure they, and only they, were the ones who would make the decisions. No compromises, no direction from outside actors.

The professor went against policy set by those in power. Compromise or not, he went against their policy. Their dictates. Compromising with him would be as unacceptable to the university management as my power company compromising with the activists.

It gives up a bit of their ability to exercise their power as they feel they should be able to exercise it - without question. That is a threat to them.