Training ultra-conservative theocrats: The mission of Patrick Henry
College
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
Online Journal Contributing Writer
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_905.shtml
[excerpt]
Jun 14, 2006, 01:06
David Horowitz has been beating the conservative drum and fabricating
misinformation about all those supposedly sinister “liberal” professors in
American colleges and universities. His so-called “Academic Bill of Rights”
is a blueprint for the extermination of open discussion and true academic
freedom. As the American Association of University Professors put it, “the
Academic Bill of Rights undermines the very academic freedom it claims to
support.”
The Christian Right has, of course, embraced Horowitz’s efforts to squelch
intellectual discussion and real academic freedom. Add to this a number of
recent books by conservative writers that slam “liberalism” and “humanism”
on college campuses – including David Kupelian’s The Marketing of Evil: How
Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as
Freedom (“praised by Limbaugh, Schlessinger, Malkin”) and David Wheaton’s
University of Destruction: Your Game Plan for Spiritual Victory on Campus
(promoted by James Dobson’s Focus on the Family syndicate) – and you have
enough smoke and mirrors to hide what’s going on in evangelical Christian
home-schooling and at a Christian college meant to give those home-schooled
students a direct pipeline into politics . . . ultra-conservative
theocratic politics.
Everyone is aware of Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University and similar
high-profile “Christian” institutions, where education is governed by the
Bible and conservative politics. Most are aware of the Southern Baptist
Convention’s “exit strategy” that advocates removing students from
“godless” public schools and home-school them in the way of
theo-conservatism. But how many are aware of Patrick Henry College?
David D. Kirkpatrick’s March 8, 2004, article for The New York Times –
“College for the Home-Schooled Is Shaping Leaders for the Right” – began
the exposé:
PURCELLVILLE, Va. - As one of 12 siblings taught at home by their parents
in St. Croix Falls, Wis., Abram Olmstead knew he would fit right in at
Patrick Henry College, the first college primarily for evangelical
Christian home-schoolers. But what really sold him was the school’s
pipeline into conservative politics.
Of the nearly 100 interns working in the White House this semester, 7 are
from the roughly 240 students enrolled in the four-year-old Patrick Henry
College, in Purcellville. An eighth intern works for the president’s
re-election campaign. A former Patrick Henry intern now works on the paid
staff of the president’s top political adviser, Karl Rove. Over the last
four years, 22 conservative members of Congress have employed one or more
Patrick Henry interns in their offices or on their campaigns, according to
the school’s records.
Interesting that so many students from an unaccredited institution – which
Patrick Henry College still is – end up with such prized internships, isn’t
it?
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the US and a couple from overseas as well]
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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