By Diane Jennings
The Dallas Morning News
Published on 3/5/2004
Excerpt:
Dr. Roy Peter Clark, senior scholar at the Poynter Institute, a school for journalists in Florida, said other private universities have wrestled with similar issues.
But, “I have sort of strong feelings about how all this should work out,” he said. “I think that to put, to exert, pressure on the editors in the name of institutional religion is profoundly unpatriotic. In a democracy, a religious perspective cannot dominate. In a democracy, freedom has to trump institutional religion.
“I believe also, as a matter of personal belief, as a Christian myself, that there’s something sacred about democracy.”
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