by Michael P. McDonald

About the author: Michael P. McDonald is cofounder and president of the Center for Individual Rights, a Washington, D.C., public interest law firm.

My organization, the Center for Individual Rights (CIR), represents Professor Donald Silva in a free speech lawsuit against the University of New Hampshire. The case illuminates the current national debate over sexual harassment and what has come to be known as “sexual correctness.”

A Career Terminated

Professor Silva is a pastor at the Newcastle Congregational Church in Newcastle, New Hampshire. Until April 1993, he was also a creative writing teacher at the University of New Hampshire. Then, the University effectively terminated his thirty-year career because he had allegedly created a “hostile academic environment”—in short, because of sexual harassment. The evidence consisted of two...