Create a commenting name to join the debate, There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts, There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts. He said: “Advanced students of legal and political theory take it for granted that there is educational value in engaging critically and carefully with arguments and theories like mine. Life Knowledge Play Aesthetic Experience Sociability Personal Reasonableness Religion (Life) The paper in question was a testimony to a 1992 referendum on anti-discrimination laws in the US state of Colorado, he said. In 40 years of university life, he said “in my private life and my professional life I’ve been well treated by people of homosexual inclination or living arrangements, very well treated by friends, by colleagues, by members of my faculty, and I’ve reciprocated”. The 78-year-old Roman Catholic, who is emeritus professor of law and legal philosophy at University College, has rejected the criticisms, insisting he had “absolutely” no hatred for homosexual people. Students have also called for the university to clarify its position on professors who express ‘discriminatory views’. A university spokesperson said: “Oxford University and the faculty of law promote an inclusive culture, which respects the rights and dignity of all staff and students. Students at Oxford University are demanding that a Catholic law professor be sacked for alleged homophobia. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? The protest was sparked by an assertion in a paper, published in 1994 and reprinted in his collected essays in 2011, in which he said homosexuality is “never a valid, humanly acceptable choice and form of life”. Students at Oxford University are demanding that a Catholic law professor be sacked for alleged homophobia. The petition claims John Finnis has “a long record of extremely discriminatory views” against many people, including members of the gay community. John Finnis: John Mitchell Finnis is an Australian legal scholar and philosopher specialising in the philosophy of law. All of the university’s teaching activity, including that in the faculty of law, is conducted according to these principles.”. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. They are good people and hatred is not on the scene.”. That is why I am still being invited to give seminars nearly a decade after my retirement from Oxford.”, Alex Benn, one of the authors of the petition, said Finnis had “built a career on demonisation”. He is admitted to the English Bar as a member of Gray's Inn. His Collected Essays, published in 2011, include an assertion from a paper published in 1994 that homosexuality is “never a valid, humanly acceptable choice and form of life”. Seven basic good. Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate? More than 400 people have signed a petition calling for John Finnis … Are you sure you want to delete this comment? The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium. Asked if he felt any hatred towards homosexual people, he replied: “Absolutely not. “I’m no longer employed by the University, but I do teach at the invitation of the faculty in graduate seminars. Who is John Finnis - 1940 - Professor of Law & Legal Philosophy at Oxford - 1980 - 'Natural Law and Rights' Natural law and Rights. Finnis told the Oxford Student: “I stand by all these writings. The RRS Sir David Attenborough, the UK's most advanced polar research ship, passes The Royal Liver Building after leaving Cammell Laird shipyard, Birkenhead, Merseyside. Rejecting claims his involvement in teaching at the university was discriminatory to people who would not feel comfortable attending his classes, he said none of the courses he taught were compulsory. In a paper published a decade ago, he wrote: “European states in the early 21st century move … into a trajectory of demographic and cultural decay … population transfer and replacement by a kind of reverse colonisation.” He warned of coming “ethnic and religious inter-communal miseries of hatred, bloodshed and political paralysis”. Petition to remove John Finnis cites 1994 paper in which he wrote homosexuality is ‘never a valid, humanly acceptable choice’, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. The problem was made worse by “paraphrases and mutilated quotations”. Why aren’t Tory free speech defenders supporting Charlie Mullins? Please be respectful when making a comment and adhere to our Community Guidelines. You may not agree with our views, or other users’, but please respond to them respectfully, Swearing, personal abuse, racism, sexism, homophobia and other discriminatory or inciteful language is not acceptable, Do not impersonate other users or reveal private information about third parties, We reserve the right to delete inappropriate posts and ban offending users without notification. Freedom of expression was “threatened by recent notions of ‘hate speech’, ‘phobia’ and so forth”. I have friends and my family have friends. “When I reprinted it, I included a summary right at the end and the summary ends by saying that those people who wink at heterosexual lifestyles of a free-wheeling kind and on the other hand support particular restrictions on homosexuals are morally inconsistent, they are discriminatory, they are unfair, and it’s a deplorable view,” said Mr Finnis. 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And he added: “It’s a matter of personal pride for them and for me and a matter of professionalism for them and for me that we don’t discriminate in our attitudes, we don’t criticise people for their faith.”. Oxford professor denies homophobia accusations after 400 students call for him to be fired. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. Aquinas believed that God gave humans characteristics the primary of which was our capability for rationality and reason. Eastern Orthodox author Rod Dreher defends Finnis: “If a scholar of the stature of John Finnis is forbidden to teach Oxford students because of his philosophical and theological opposition to homosexuality, then no Christian professor who has ever expressed disapproval, however couched in academic language, of homosexuality will be safe.”. He is professor of law at University College, Oxford and at the University of Notre Dame, teaching jurisprudence, political theory, and constitutional law. Hundreds of students sign petition to remove emeritus professor John Finnis from teaching, First published on Wed 9 Jan 2019 06.13 EST. Temperatures during the day on Saturday will be between 10C and 14C, but set to plunge as low as 1C overnight, An employee pulls a pint in the Tib Street Tavern in Manchester, as Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announces the government will pay two thirds of the wages of staff in pubs, restaurants and other businesses if they are forced to close under new coronavirus restrictions, A jogger runs over the Armstrong Bridge in Jesmond, Newcastle surrounded by Autumn colours, Artist Hannah Uzor with her painting of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Queen Victoria’s African goddaughter, at Osborne, the Queen’s seaside home on the Isle of Wight.

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