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Fox News first reported Thursday that Boykin, an original member of the Delta Force who served as undersecretary of defense for intelligence under President George W. Bush, had been fired after nine years of teaching at the school after criticizing transgender bathrooms.
“The first man who goes into the restroom with my daughter will not have to worry about surgery,” Boykin said of the debate surrounding transgender bathroom rules during a speech to conservatives in March.
The comments angered LGBT activists, dozens of whom signed a letter demanding the college fire him. They accused him of calling for violence against transgenders, he said.
“I never said homosexuals. I never said transgenders,” he told Fox. “I was really talking about these perverts who would use this as a way to get into the bathrooms with our wives and daughters.”
He said he was fired without warning and without being afforded the opportunity to defend himself. A representative for the college told Fox that his contract was “simply not renewed” and denied that the comments about transgender bathrooms were the “determining factor” in his firing. The representative did, however, expressed concern that the statement “appeared to advocate or approve of violence.”
Boykin received an outpouring of support, including from Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), a one-time presidential candidate.
“Hampden-Sydney College has fired General Boykin. At a time where young people are desperately seeking hope and inspiration, you would think General Boykin (who had taught there nine years) would be one of their most valued faculty. But instead, he fell victim to the PC police,” Cruz wrote in a Facebook post.
In a reversal, the school wrote in a statement Thursday that Boykin had accepted a one-year contract “after discussions.” Boykin celebrated the announcement, characterizing the incident as a reminder of how First Amendment principles “are worth standing up for and defending.”
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.@genboykin: This has been a great reminder of how our #FirstAmendment principles are worth standing up for https://t.co/Yp6s0F0tJb
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 20, 2016
I wonder if they brought him back because of public pressure or because of a threat of a law suit they knew they would lose. I did not hear of any law suit but I can’t imagine they would take him back in response to anything other than government pressure (obama) and I don’t see that happening in this case.
Ted Cruz still has a voice where it counts!
Pray for righteousness to be restored and for the peace of Jerusalem
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