Frank Turek

Frank Turek
Dr. Frank Turek at I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist event.
Nationality	American
Organization	The Austin Group
Religion	Evangelical Christian
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Cross Examined

Frank Turek is an American Christian author and public speaker at universities, conferences, and churches. He is the author of one book, Correct, Not Politically Correct, and co-author of two more with Norman Geisler, I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist and Legislating Morality.^[1][2][3] His show, I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist, airs on the NRB network.^[4]

Turek is a former aviator in the U.S. Navy, and has a Masters degree in Public Administration from George Washington University and a doctorate in Apologetics from Southern Evangelical Seminary.^[3] He has also taught classes in Leadership and Management at George Washington University.^[1]

Advocacy For Christian Apologetics

Frank Turek is a Christian apologist, and has delivered talks to numerous churches and universities.^[5] He is an advocate of Intelligent Design, and a critic of evolution.^[6]

Debates

Controversy

In 2010, Frank Turek was fired from Cisco for his views on the marriage debate.

 The morning after completing the seventh session earlier this year, a manager in that session —who was one of the better students in that class—phoned in a complaint. It had nothing to do with content of the course or how it was conducted. In fact, the manager commented that the course was “excellent” as did most who participated. His complaint regarded Dr. Turek’s political and religious views that were never mentioned during class, but that the manager learned by “googling” Dr. Turek after class.

The manager identified himself as gay and was upset that Dr. Turek had written this book providing evidence that maintaining our current marriage laws would be best for the country. Although the manager didn’t read the book, he said that the author’s view was inconsistent with “Cisco values” and could not be tolerated. (Dr. Turek is aware of this because he was in the room when his call came in.) The manager then contacted an experienced HR professional at Cisco who had Dr. Turek fired that day without ever speaking to him. The HR professional also commended the manager for “outing” Dr. Turek.

This firing had nothing to do with course content—the program earned very high marks from participants. It had nothing to do with budget constraints—the original contract was paid in full recently. A man was fired simply because of his personal political and religious beliefs—beliefs that are undoubtedly shared by thousands of your very large and diverse workforce.^[1]

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Turek was later fired from Bank of America for the same reason.^[7]

Bibliography

• Correct, Not Politically Correct; How Same-Sex Marriage Hurts Everyone (2008) ISBN 978-1607081623
• I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist (2004) ISBN 978-1581345612
• Legislating Morality: Is it Wise? Is it Legal? Is it Possible? (1998) ISBN 978-0764220944

References

External links

• Does God Exist? Debate between Frank Turek and Christopher Hitchens, Debate at the College of New Jersey, 2011.
• Frank Turek Videos
• YouTube Frank Turek's YouTube channel.
• Nothing Gay About It Turek's lecture based on the book that got him fired from Cisco.
• Correct, Not Politically Correct The book that got Turek fired.

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