Many at Calvin protest visit by Commander CuckooBananas

[DTinAZ]

Someone else posted an abortive thread about this, referring to the professors as "Anti-God" for some bizarre reason. So here's a better link and a better title.

http://www.detnews.com/2005/metro/0505/19/B01-186713.htm

President's visit stirs dissent at conservative Calvin College

By Laura Berman / The Detroit News

The president may have been expecting a warmer welcome from Calvin College than he'll get Saturday.

He's delivering a commencement speech to 900 graduating students.

It's a liberal arts school that defines its mission as "developing the Christian mind," and requires what its spokesman, Phil de Haan, calls "an allegiance of faith" from its faculty, and theology studies from its students.

But 100 members of the faculty and another 40 staff and former faculty members have signed an open letter of rebuke to the president that's scheduled to appear as a half-page ad in the Grand Rapids Press on the day of the president's speech.

Edit: Here's a link to the clip from The Simpsons about the "Commander:"

http://www.zippyvideos.com/157859598277245.html

[JohnyCanuck]

1. This part is especially nice to hear:

Crump says that news of the open letter has gotten response from around the country. It's tapped into what he sees as "a silent majority in the Christian evangelical community that resents the Christian vocabulary being hijacked by the religious right."

I hope this event spurs on more of these Christian evangelicals to speak up and not let themselves be intimidated by the pseudo-Christian Republican propaganda BS.

[Canadian_moderate]

2. Not all Christians are zealots

My friend (also a Canadian), who was my best man in 2003, is a deeply religious person who attended Calvin College in the 1990's. While he is very firm in his religious beliefs, he is also very much a social-moderate who does not interpret the Bible literally. He now lives in the San Diego area and is married to a woman who grew up in a very Republican family in small-town South Dakota.

Since 9-11 and the invasion of Iraq, my friend has been clearly on the anti-war side, though I'm not so sure about his wife.

His brother, who also attended Calvin and is also very religious is even more liberal, tends to be more of a Nader liberal-socialist.

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. I saw that post - it was lacking a "sarcasm" tag, but commenting

on the dissonance between the Bush=God crowd and the professors at a religious college objecting to Bush policies.

Not bizarre, just takes a little reading between the lines.

[DTinAZ]

4. the OP didn't comment...

Actually, the OP just did a "post and run" of the URL and first portion of a "World Peace Herald" reprint of an article by a Washington Times reporter, but didn't post any comment themselves, nor did they return to the topic and clarify the intention of their unfortunate title. Here's the link to that topic:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=bookmark&forum=104&topic_id=3680714

I saw a better article, and wanted the topic to get a little more exposure.

DT