…for what is clearly lawful, extramural speech that could not be sanctioned at any school with normal tenure and academic freedom standards. (A bit more detail here.)  But Taylor's rules provide that a tenured faculty member can be terminated for "[f]ailure to meet professional, moral, philosophical and/or spiritual standards for faculty.”  These standards are set out in something called the "Life Together Convenant," which clearly gives administrators great leeway to sanction faculty for what would be contractually protected expression anywhere else.  The bottom line is that no university with academic freedom or real tenure regulates faculty this way, and the result is the fiasco before us.  It's all the more startling because there was not even a semblance of due process before termination.

(Thanks to Bryan Zuraw for the pointers.)