....from 'Paganism'. What a loon!
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Bob Jones Sees Bush Win As 'Reprieve'
(Fri, Nov/12/2004)
GREENVILLE, S.C. - Bob Jones III, president of the fundamentalist
college that bears his name, has told President Bush he should use his
electoral mandate to appoint conservative judges and approve legislation
"defined by biblical norm."
"In your re-election, God has graciously granted America - though she
doesn't deserve it - a reprieve from the agenda of paganism," Jones
wrote Bush in a congratulatory letter posted on the university's Web
site.
"You have been given a mandate. ... Put your agenda on the front burner
and let it boil. You owe the liberals nothing. They despise you because
they despise your Christ," said the letter, dated Nov. 3.
A White House spokesman said he didn't know whether the president had
seen the letter.
Jonathan Pait, a spokesman for the university, said the letter was
placed on the school's Web site because Jones had read it to students in
chapel and many told their parents about it. He said Thursday that Jones
had not received a response from the White House.
Pait said it would be a misreading of the letter to think that "everyone
who voted for the Democrats is a pagan" or that "if you voted for John
Kerry you are a despiser of Christ."
"For example, there are those who voted for John Kerry because they
opposed the war in Iraq," Pait said. "Dr. Jones did not intend to paint
everyone with that broad a brush."
Jones wrote that Bush will "have the opportunity to appoint many
conservative judges and exercise forceful leadership with the Congress
in passing legislation that is defined by biblical norm regarding the
family, sexuality, sanctity of life, religious freedom, freedom of
speech and limited government."
In February 2000, Bush spoke at Bob Jones University when he was running
for his first term in the White House. At the time, the school banned
interracial dating and included anti-Roman Catholic material on its Web
site.
The private Christian college has since dropped the dating ban but still
maintains on its Internet site material questioning Catholicism.
Bush came under fire for the visit but defended it. He later wrote
Cardinal John O'Connor of New York to apologize.
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http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/1-11122004-399043.html
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Which raises the question: Can a people that believes more fervently
in theVirgin Birth than in evolution still be called an Enlightened
nation?-Garry Wills, New York Times 11/04/04
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