[NOTE: Current students of Cambridge University hold the highest amount of influence on this, far above a petition. Please pursue your internal formal complaints procedure if you feel you have been discriminated against by the comments of the CUSU that Dr. Peterson's views do not reflect those of the student body as a group and/or by the Faculty of Divinity's similar position.]

Cambridge University is a public institution funded by UK taxpayers. As such it has an obligation to guide its students authoritatively and not to make politically-influenced decisions or yield to pressure.

Dr. Jordan Peterson, a Canadian author and clinical psychologist, was offered a visiting fellowship at Cambridge University's Faculty of Divinity. Regardless of the circumstances surrounding the invitation, it is dishonourable to yield to staff and student pressure due to perception of his political stances and rescind it.

Professor Peterson is not primarily a political figure or lecturer, and he has been publicly clear time and time again that he opposes extreme left- AND right-wing stances, as well as attitudes and behaviours that reflect thinking one already has all answers and knowledge. He does not communicate lack of tolerance.

If it is NOT the case at Cambridge University that there is a left-wing, liberal agenda but a truly inclusive approach to learning, perfect evidence of that would be that Dr. Peterson, who is outspoken against ideology-driven suppression of speech, would still be welcome to a visiting fellowship, especially as his speciality is clinical psychology and his interest there is theology anyway, not politics.

Regardless of people's opinions about where Jordan Peterson should stand politically and socially, if it is true that Cambridge University is inclusive, bearing in mind there must be faculty and students there from multiple backgrounds and perspectives, political and religious, it is an absurd notion that he would not be welcome due to personal views, on topics that he would not even be there to speak about.

We the petitioners, being taxpayers in the United Kingdom who fund public education, demand that this politically-motivated decision to rescind the invitation be reversed immediately and special-interest groups not be pandered to in this way by a respectable British institute of higher education.