P.Z. Myers hates Christians exclusively

Or so it would seem, per this discovery by Frank Beckwith, who found that Myers criticized the Danish newspapers for publishing the Muhammad cartoons. Here's part of what Myers said at the time:

Muslims represent a poor and oppressed underclass, and those cartoons represent a ruling establishment intentionally taunting them and basically flipping them off. They have cause to be furious!

Ah, simply publishing a cartoon drawing of Muhammad in a non-Muslim country causes Prof. Myers to sympathize with the Islamic fanatics. But it's okay to solicit someone to steal the most precious thing to tens of millions of American Christians -- what they (we) believe to be God in the flesh -- for the sake of publicly desecrating it.

This is no surprise, of course. For men like P.Z. Myers, there is no infamy that Christians don't deserve. I am not the least bit surprised, or offended, when someone doesn't believe in the religious doctrines I hold. Why should I be? Why should anyone be? If Myers wrote a paper saying the doctrine of the Eucharist is the worst kind of nonsense, and people are idiots if they believe it, so what? He's wrong, but it's a fair argument to put, and there's nothing wrong with him making that argument.

But I am honestly shocked that a university professor would engage in an act of such outright bigotry and contempt as what Myers has done here: to deliberately seek to profane what many Christians hold sacred, simply for the sake of offending them. Myers is, of course, perfectly within his legal rights to undertake such a stunt. I don't believe in the concept of "hate crimes," so I would oppose any attempt to use the state to sanction him. Nevertheless, it is impossible to believe that a professor could engage in this sort of disgusting bigotry against Jews, Muslims or any other religious group without strong censure from his institution, and others. If Myers asked people to bring him a Koran or a Torah scroll so he could film himself defiling them, I would be outraged, and would expect other decent people to be as well.

I invite readers who agree with me to contact the University of Minnesota, Morris chancellor and respectfully make your views known to her. Does she find Myers's actions in this matter to reflect the values of U of M-M? What are the values of U of M in this respect? According to the UMM-M mission statement:

UMM attracts and serves a student body, faculty and staff reflective of our multicultural society. The college empowers the campus community to participate fully and thoughtfully in a diverse society, regionally, nationally, and globally.

And a professor asking people to steal a consecrated Host from a Catholic Church so he can videotape himself desecrating it is consonant with that mission how? Please tell us, Chancellor Jacqueline Johnson.