A new wrinkle in the weird tale of fabulist Paul Mirecki, the subject of my previous post. Today, he resigned his position as chairman of the University of Kansas Religious Studies Department. I sincerely wish Dr. Mirecki peace, happiness, abundant long life, and success in his honest pursuits.

Paul Mirecki, you will recall, made a tiny ripple in the news cycle about a week ago, when some anti-Christian remarks he posted on the Internet were brought to light. There was a flurry of disapproval, and a class he had planned to teach got canceled, but he kept his position as chair of the Religious Studies department at Kansas University. And so the curtain fell on this tawdry little vignette of a college-town bigot.

But Mirecki apparently didn’t like the ending, and he’s writing another chapter. Before sunrise Monday morning, he reported to a hospital emergency room spinning a bizarre tale of being beaten by two anonymous fundamentalist Christians on a lonely stretch of country road.

How bizarre, you ask? Keep reading.
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