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Article: Letter from the Publisher; Let's hope Cynthia Maughan beats the Christian-bashers at UBC.(University of British Columbia)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
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- The Report Newsmagazine
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- December 2, 2002
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On my next trip to Vancouver I'd like to meet Cynthia Maughan, just to shake her hand. Readers may remember her from a story by Terry O'Neill in our November 4 edition. She's the Vancouver woman who is suing the University of British Columbia for anti-Christian discrimination. I have no idea if she will win, but she certainly seems to have a good case.
Her story, briefly, is this. Her English professor two years ago was Lorraine Weir, a standard-issue radical lesbian deconstructionist feminist--the same scholar, in fact, who testified in court that John Robin Sharpe's pedophile fantasies constitute literature. Early on, Prof. Weir made it plain she expected her ...