Score one for the (formerly) good guys. A Christian college is protesting having to hear a graduation address from God’s Friend and Yours, George W. Bush.
Washington Times (sorry):
One-third of the professors at an evangelical Christian college in Grand Rapids, Mich., are taking out a large ad in a local newspaper Saturday to protest President Bush’s commencement speech.
“As Christians, we are called to be peacemakers and to initiate war only as a last resort,” the ad will say. “We believe your administration has launched an unjust and unjustified war in Iraq.”
The 130 signatories, which include 20 staff members, work at Calvin College. Founded in 1876 as a school for pastors of the Christian Reformed Church, it now is one of the nation’s flagship schools for a Christian liberal-arts education.
Whoever wrote the ad kicked Bush butt and took no prisoners.
“No single political position should be identified with God’s will,” says the ad, which also chastises the president for “actions that favor the wealthy of our society and burden the poor.”
Christians are to be characterized by love and gentleness, it adds, but “we believe that your administration has fostered intolerance and divisiveness and has often failed to listen to those with whom it disagrees.”
Moreover, says the letter, set to run in the Grand Rapids Press, the Bush administration’s environmental policies “have harmed creation,” and it asks the president “to re-examine your policies in light of our God-given duty to pursue justice with mercy.”
Apparently no one’s told our leader that he can’t run for a third term. And everybody’s favorite evil comparative genius, Karl Rove, is still muscling his way to the head of the line.
The publication pointed out that the president had been looking for a speech venue in Michigan, a state he failed to carry in 2000 and 2004.
After U.S. Rep. Vernon J. Ehlers, a Republican whose district includes Grand Rapids, got an offer from presidential adviser Karl Rove, the college sidelined its previously scheduled commencement speaker, Yale University professor Nick Wolterstorff, in favor of the chief executive.
Thanks to the fabulous WTF Is It Now for noticing this story.
