Posted on 02/12/2008 8:57:25 AM PST by 3AngelaD
The head of the College of William and Mary, Gene Nichol, has resigned in disgrace. Several readers send along his resignation letter. You’ll recall that he roiled the campus with his decision to hide the cross at the famous school chapel to make it “less faith-specific.” More recently, he hosted a sex workers show on campus while restricting critics who wanted to tape it. Here’s his letter:....
Dear Members of the William & Mary Community: I was informed by the Rector on Sunday, after our Charter Day celebrations, that my contract will not be renewed in July. Appropriately, serving the College in the wake of such a decision is beyond my imagining. Accordingly, I have advised the Rector, and announce today, effective immediately, my resignation as president of the College of William & Mary. I return to the faculty of the school of law to resume teaching and writing.
I have made four decisions, or sets of decisions, during my tenure that have stirred ample controversy. First, as is widely known, I altered the way a Christian cross was displayed in a public facility, on a public university campus, in a chapel used regularly for secular College events — both voluntary and mandatory — in order to help Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, and other religious minorities feel more meaningfully included as members of our broad community. The decision was likely required by any effective notion of separation of church and state. And it was certainly motivated by the desire to extend the College’s welcome more generously to all. We are charged, as state actors, to respect and accommodate all religions, and to endorse none. The decision did no more...
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I bet his replacement turns out more intolerant of Christianity, morality, etc than he is.
The day an "effective notion" takes precedence over law should be interesting.
I think it was some event where prostitutes talked about their experiences.
Very articulate, a stand-up guy.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961700/posts
What a miserable s.o.b. this guy must be.
This man was a disgrace to a fine university. Congratulations to the people who FINALLY decided they had enough.
My guess is strippers, prostition or 800 number type females that “talk dirty” for a living to hard up men.
It’s no wonder they didn’t want a cross seen.
My guess is strippers, prostition or 800 number type females that “talk dirty” for a living to hard up men.
It’s no wonder they didn’t want a cross seen.
“sex workers” = “whores, pimps, and strippers”
It was a group of “artists”, porn stars, hookers, etc that either put on plays or showed photos/films/examples of their “work”, and gave talks, described what their jobs are really like, and answered questions. I didn’t see it, but it was said to be much less risque than folks were led to believe.
Maybe the drunk who ran Mary Washington College can fishtail down I-95 and get a job there.
Yeah. Too bad he was wrong about damn-near everything, but at least he is a good writer....
"You know, there's going to be sex, drugs, rock-n-roll... chips, dips, chains, whips... You know, your basic high school orgy type of thing. I mean, uh, I'm not talking candlewax on the nipples, or witchcraft or anything like that, no, no, no. Just a couple of hundred kids running around in their underwear, acting like complete animals."
Would that be a ‘focus’ group?
I guess it’s like a trade show where whores of both sex display their wares.
If it’s the same one they had recently at Duke, the workers did more than talk.
prostitutes and strippers and adult video performers. IOW people go sell the sex act explicitly.
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