Group Blasts Liberty University as ‘Extremist, Homophobic & Intellectually Narrow’
- Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:50am by
Billy Hallowell
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It’s a rare occasion that a gorgeous, 217-acre college campus is very literally offered up free of charge to a worthy party. Yes, that’s right — an entire higher education facility. The only stipulation is that the receiving group must be Christian in nature. While this is a generous gesture, the property, located in Northfield, Massachusetts, has some residents extremely nervous — especially considering that Liberty University, an evangelical institution that was founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell, is one of the prospective candidates ready and willing to move in.
The Rev. Jerry Falwell (AP)
Some people are so nervous about Liberty’s potential takeover of the land that a petition against the institution has been launched. In fact, alumni of the Northfield Mount Hermon prep school — the school that owned the site until 2009 — are petitioning against the potential Christian owners, alleging that Liberty is “extremist” and “narrow” in its teachings.
The New York Times has more:
More than 1,000 alumni of Northfield Mount Hermon have signed a petition calling Liberty “an extremist, homophobic and intellectually narrow institution” that clashes with the values of D. L. Moody, an evangelist who opened a school for girls on the property, his birthplace, in 1879.
“Whoever comes in there should have views consistent with the legacy of the place,” said John Howley, a Northfield Mount Hermon alumnus and former trustee who signed the petition, which is addressed to the chairman of the school’s board of trustees. He described Moody as a promoter of “big-tent” Christianity. “We don’t want it to go to a place that is not open-minded, not willing to listen to the views of others,” he said.
The petition calls for Northfield Mount Hermon’s trustees to publicly stand against Liberty’s potential acquisition of the land. That being said, the school’s leaders have proclaimed that they have no say in what Hobby Lobby does with the institution (the prep school is now consolidated at a different location). The former prep school students also write:
Thus we must register our principled objections to the proposed sale of the former Northfield campus to the institutional and patrilineal inheritors of the extremist, exclusionary, and authoritarian dogma of the Moral Majority in the 1980s and its role in consolidating the far right’s political will-to-power through the Christian Coalition as well as its allies and successors. These ambitions in fact have been made explicit for the entire Northeast according to Liberty University Facebook page comments on the sale of the Northfield campus. One comment enthuses: “To have such a light in the dark reaches of the Northeast would be great.”
The campus in Northfield along with its 43 buildings, is being offered for free to an orthodox Christian group who can come up with a solid plan to use it. (AP)
The land in question was sold by Northfield to Hobby Lobby, a craft-store chain that is owned by the Green family. While the initial plan was to give the institution to a foundation named after famed Christian writer C.S. Lewis, that plan didn’t pan out. The foundation was initially hoping to open a Christian college focused upon the study of books, however a down economy has shelved those plans.
So, the Greens are relying on help from Jerry Pattengale, a college administrator in Indiana, to find a reliable college that has the financial backing to take the property over. Liberty, to the chagrin of some locals, has the ability to manage such a massive campus undertaking. Plus, the Greens already seem to have a connection to the Christian college, as they donated $10.5 million toward the building of a law school at Liberty (they also gave $70 million to Oral Roberts University, another Christian school).
There’s no telling which institution will inevitably get the property, but if it is, indeed, Liberty, it’s likely that there will be some tensions. After all, the northeast is somewhat less evangelical and more unfamiliar than the south with the values that are held at the conservative school.
(H/T: New York Times)
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nolefan2
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:47amName me a liberal who is “open minded and willing to listen to the views of others.” I find the idea that they even say that HYSTERICAL.
Report Post »robert
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:12pm“We don’t want it to go to a place that is not open-minded, not willing to listen to the views of others.”
Do you mean like every radically left academic institution in the country?
The same ones who deny conservative speakers the right to speak?
The same ones who are rife with mentally deranged kooks who chain themselves together at the school auditorium to keep out those with different views than what the student fools have been brainwashed with.
Report Post »4truth2all
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:22pmYo Robert:
Haven’t you heard … there is a seperation of God and thinking.
Report Post »maccow
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:53pmI literally just enrolled in courses with Liberty yesterday before this story hit. I thank God even more for my choice.
Report Post »When any religious organization is being hailed and embraced by this society and culture, it must be doing something wrong.
Christians are persecuted and vilified when they are effectively shining the light of Christ on those who love the darkness.
When Christians feel safe, content, and free of controversy, then satan has completed his work in rendering them ineffective for the gospel.
Blessed are you when men hate you, And when they exclude you, And revile [you], and cast out your name as evil, For the Son of Man’s sake. (Luke 6:22)
If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before [it hated] you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. (John 15:18-21)
lukerw
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 1:29pmIf people… would stop Promoting the Liberals in Business & Government… Liberal Universities would Fail…
Report Post »Crush_Liberalism
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 1:37pmYou are utterly CORRECT. They truly believe that they have some supreme authority to simply PROCLAIM that “open minded” means “agrees with our liberal ideology”.. They love tolerance, and will not TOLERATE anything that disagrees with their invented definition of “tolerance”.
Report Post »I still wish someone would demonstrate that the belief that homosexuality is immoral is somehow “phobic”. They know full well that is a bull shee-ite term that is intentionally misapplied.
They also teach that heterosexual fornication (outside of heterosexual marriage) is immoral – New England doesn‘t seem to have an issue with Liberty’s stance on fornication. they teach that adultery is immoral – don’t see the New England “open minded” so-called intelligentsia with their tightie-whities in a bunch, calling them “marital infidelity-phobics”, or “forniphobics”.
It’s a total bull crap “power word” they invented to imply irrationality to something that certain people have a rational opposition to. If it violates a tenant of one’s religious beliefs, it is absurd to call it a “phobia”…that’s just liberal bully tactics. Liberals love to tells lies, for example. Liberty University’s stance is that it is sinful to lie. I sure don’t hear Bill Clinton or Nanci Pelosi calling them “deceit-a-phobics”. Objecting to something does not make one phobic. It means that someone has “diferent views”, and the left, ultimately, is the side being “close minded to other views”.
Non-Nobis-Domine-Sed-Nomini-Tuo-Da-Gloriam
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 2:14pmHarvard, Princeton and Columbia Universities were all founded as Christian Biblical colleges. William Blackstone set the foundations of legal teachings at Harvard Law School and they were based on the Bible and Christianity. After Darwin came out with his theories (not law) in 1859, Harvard had a new Dean come into power in 1869 who idolized Darwin and the rest is history – or should I say historical revisionism. Our Country was founded as a Christian Nation no matter what Obama or his minions would have you believe. All schools from elementary on up used the Bible and the New England Primer to teach our children. We have all been duped with the myth that the founding Fathers meant for the separation of church and State the way it is presented now. When they spoke of religion in our beginnings – they meant Christianty and only Christianity! Find out everything you can about the truth regarding the founding of this country and it’s original Universities. Watch The Truth Project series and that could be a good starting point.
Report Post »JQCitizen
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 2:20pmAMEN! Couldn’t have said it better; so I won’t try to:)
Report Post »carbonyes
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 4:04pmWhat a bunch of ludicrous, limp minded, hypocritical, lame brained individuals. A bunch of sad sacks – each one of them and certainly a reproach and disgrace to the Founding Fathers and their compatriots, many of whom fought and died for our country.
Report Post »wbedding
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:43amthe truth of the matter is that Liberty HAS listened to what others have said, and decided (and rightfully so) that it was the wrong answer to the questions. funny how liberals, like ENCINOM, attack others for sticking to what they believe is right just because the Communist Party USA does not subscribe to it. now who is narrow minded?
Report Post »Crush_Liberalism
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 1:49pmSill,y they don’t mean “listen to” other views…they mean “capitulate to” other views. I listened to the president speak…and afterward, I determined he was full of total horse dung. I LISTENED to him. I just didn’t want the extra smoke blown into my rectum, so I rejected what he had to “offer”. Liberty U knows full-well the position of the other side (no pun intended with “position”)…and they reject it out of faith in what they believe. So, by “not listening to”…the liberals actually mean “they don’t do what we say”. Listening to = obeying ?
Report Post »Quasimofo
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:18am“We don’t want it to go to a place that is not open-minded, not willing to listen to the views of others,”
Uhhh…. so don’t go. Next!
Report Post »Marine25
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:03amAny “university” proudly displaying dinosaur bones that they label “almost 3000 years old” doesn‘t deserve to use the title ’university”. Liberty expelled students found to be dating interracially until the mid 1990″s. For most of Liberty’s (Lynchburg College) existance they have claimed it was impossible to be Christian and not be Republican. I wouldn’t want religious zealots of any stripe pretending to be educators in my town either.
Report Post »black9897
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:23amI’m about to graduate from LU, and I would advise before bashing young earth and the way they view it, take a course there or get info about young earth. It’s a good school. Not perfect, but overall a very good school. I see interracial couples all the time there (i’m in one actually). So even if they used to do that, they don’t anymore.
Report Post »nocalifornia
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:28amYou do have environmentalist in your town right, when are you going to ask them to leave? You won’t because you agree with their pagon religion but you will ask a Cristian group not to come to your town because you have no tolerance for their religion? I think that makes you a bigot.
Report Post »JQCitizen
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 2:30pmIt isn’t Science to claim an Old Earth either; If we’re going to be honest we have to admit that everything before actual recorded History has to be Educated Hypothesis, correct? And there is actually more solid evidence for Young Earth than Old. The rest is Faith, either way. It’s just Faith in different Gods; – one the God of the Scriptures, the other is Man setting Himself up as God.
I am convince the REAL BASIS for the Evolutionary Mythology is the DESPERATE ABOLITION of God from ANY AUTHORITY claimed in the Bible. There is TOO MUCH speculation involved to call it Science!!!
Report Post »Non-Nobis-Domine-Sed-Nomini-Tuo-Da-Gloriam
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:38pm@Marine25 – Check out CreationMinistries.org and the teachings of Russ Miller. I believe you will find that the real truth is that our Earth was ‘Created’ and did not evolve over millions of years as we have all been led to believe. The Theory of Evolution is just that – A theory that the left, socialist, progressive thinkers in our time have hi-jacked to promote their own form of religion. If Liberty is teaching the truth about Creation and how old the Earth really is, then I’d say they are one of the best Universities in this country! Try this on for size – DNA Code Barrier plus Gene Depletion plus Natural Selection = Zero Macro Evolution. There is no way it could have happened.
How about something more simple. Imagine before the invention of the watch a Man is walking through the woods. He comes across something shiny – It’s ticking, has figures at various points on it’s face with hands to indicate a position. It’s smooth and carved with intricate detail and as the Man studies it, he realizes that somehow it is keeping track of time as it ticks and the hands move. Now do you think this person would come to the conclusion that somehow, over billions of years, the sap, the leaves, the branches and bark from the forest, the dirt, elements, rain, heat, cold have all somehow come together to form this wonderful intricate creation?? It would be obvious that there was intelligent design even in a watch. God’s word is true – He is our creator which cannot be
Report Post »gatortech40
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 1:13amHey Devil, check your facts before you post. Liberty University is not Lynchburg College. Two separate institutions. When you make silly mistakes like that, it makes people question the validity of the rest of your post. And, Liberty does not teach that dinosaur fossils are 3000 yrs old. When they teach Evolution and Creation side-by-side in Apologetics 201 (and let the student make the decision which one they believe), the curriculum dates dinosaurs closer to 5000-8000 B.C.
Report Post »black9897
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:46am@gator That’s what I love about going to LU and private schools (at least the high school I went to) They teach both evolution and creationism. Yet , everybody calls places like LU close minded?? Of course, they are and not the public schools who only teach one thing, as “fact”.
Report Post »Joisey
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:01amI would advise Liberty University to stay out of Massachusetts, and any other high tax, liberal infested state. You don’t want to have to hire a bunch of local, whiney, entitlement minded, liberals to work at the university and cause trouble. LU should move to a state with no state income tax like Tennessee or Florida, or one with a strong state economy like Texas or North Dakota. It would be better for their employees as well as their graduates, who should be encouraged to settle in those states for their own careers and to build conservative majorities there. Conservatives need to start gathering together to weather the coming storm.
Report Post »CARS60
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:40amUniversities don’t pay property taxes here. Think of this as a missions trip. They can be a light in the darkness along with the rest of us Christians here. Freedom of religion is under assault and those pledging to speak for DL Moody are presumptious.
Report Post »Windwalker
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:04amIf there was ever a mission field, we are living in it and on it. It is called the U.S.A. Turn on the radio, television or just pay attention to what walks our streets. The number of our youth with body piercings, tattoos, is mind boggling…..even self proclaiming Christian youth. If they weren’t speaking English, I would think I was waking up to a nightmare in Africa.
Report Post »TheePolitinator
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 2:52pmMy wife and I just left mass after 41 years, the country has no clue what it is in for. Total prelude of obabacare, massive taxes, high medical costs, and many laws to help bring the top down. Sad because the Berkshires is beautiful. Infested with liberals and commies but very nice area.
Report Post »NOTALOTTAYITTAYADDA
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:46amThe majority of people who have ‘faith’ in religion are narrow minded extremist, they have trouble understanding reality so they regress to fantasy for peace of mind.
Report Post »esv
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:47amAmazingly enough, that comment isn’t narrow minded at all.
Report Post »SGinNC
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:15pmSo you have all the answers huh? Science is your religion and your religion is lacking in REAL answers. So who is the extremist relying on faith and fantasy now?
Report Post »4truth2all
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:26pmYou‘re mind lives on a one lane street doesn’t it ?
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 1:27pmYadda-
Report Post »You really need to reflect and either find your place in Black Lib Theology or the Nation of Islam, like the rest of your side’s lemmings.
NOTALOTTAYITTAYADDA
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 3:04pmHaving been brought up in a private christian HS, hearing what preachers have to rant about, realizing authority figures tell lies for control. Crusades in the ME that continue to this very day. How the catholic church would execute people for possession of optical lenses as tools of the devil. Look up Bruno and how he was persecuted for presenting scientific LAWS the pope did not agree with, as they challenged his power of understanding all (executed by the church).
Report Post »Ask any “christian” where the bible comes from, they will probably say “God”, not even understanding what the dead sea scrolls contributed or even which books were left out by HUMAN PRIEST. Pagons ALLOWED the christians to worship in the Byzantine empire (which stood 700yrs, longest ever in recorded history) but required them to hold sabath on SUNDAY, not SATURDAY as the holy word dictates.
I believe in the “here after”, only to realize that RELIGION is only a human PERVERSION of understanding the next stage in the life cycle. A perversion to con people into submitting to the power hungry greed of humans.
People who continue to believe commercial airliners struck the twin towers are no better off than a caveman amazed at the striking of a Bic disposable lighter. The caveman doesn’t understand the technology, nor does the average American understand CGI or how low radioactivity is from Plutonium 238.
The US public is BRAINWASHED by what the LSM wants them to believe, LIKE RELIGION AND FAITH!!
4truth2all
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 4:06pmYo Nottalotta:
Nothing you state “disproves” scripture and would break it down for you … but sorry, I’m not going to take the time. I will say this … Jesus, Himself spoke against those that sought to control the people …they are called the pharisees …so one of you’re points is very easily disproven, but I’m sure you will try to wiggle past it …
Report Post »Highland
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:40amIf the Greens own the property, it‘s up to them how it’s used. The left hates the concept of the ownership – they want everything to be collective.
Report Post »BobtheMoron
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:39amHigher education is wasted on most people. They don’t have intellectual curiosity or real interest. Their motivation is primarily to get a ‘good job’. Some of my acquaintances are skilled laborers and earn more than most college graduates. Learn a trade, work hard and retire to Florida with a couple of mil in the bank. Works for me. Just sayin’.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:22amHigher Education is a waste on anybody believing the BS taught at Liberty University.
Report Post »wbedding
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:39ami’ll bet the farm that they are a lot more intellectual than you
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 1:37pmEncinomom-
Report Post »I travel through that area often and there are very few Encinomom wannabe’s. The area is clean, active, and takes a positive role in the larger community. The student‘s don’t wear their pants around their knees, have morals, and more importantly have a direction and prospects. You keep Watts and Oakland, Chicago and Detroit, DC, Balt, Philly, Newark, S. Boston, ect, ect, ect. Lynchburg definately is not a bastion of lib/encinomom/socialism/marxism/ or a cesspool like Madison. Thanks for your particular rectum view, stay away, we will pay your health care if you do. Thanks in advance.
myheck
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:37amI live in New England and would welcome Liberty University’s presence. I know people who mourn the loss of Moody’s legacy at Mt Hermon. To say modern day Mt. Hermon was true to Moody’s legacy is revisionist history of the worst sort. Liberty would be much more akin to Moody.
Report Post »Progressives celebrate diversity except for diversity of thought.
robinakilt
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:33amAnother example of what we are up against! These people believe that the only way you can be open minded is to agree with them. They do not want free speech unless it is approved by them.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:14am“the school’s leaders have proclaimed that they have no say in what Hobby Lobby does with the institution”
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No say AT ALL! It’s called Freedom of Religion, you doofuses. Just like progressives like to constantly exercise their Freedom of Speech, but their version of it is Freedom of Speech, unless it disagrees with them. Typical libs, if they can’t win an argument with ideas, they will start to hurl insults and name-calling like the little children they are.
Lone Ranger
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:09amEasy fix. Don’t go there. Why do liberals always have their nose up everyone’s butt? A liberal‘s business is nobody’s business, but everybody‘s business is a liberal’s business. If they want to see REAL intellectually narrow-minded extremists, all they need to do is go any campus that hosts a speech by Ann Coulter.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:08amI really hope they get it and shine a light on this mess of liberalism.
Report Post »azghost
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:04amHere’s a little food for thought… ” You’re reaction to a Man of God, determines God’s reaction to you”!
Report Post »“The instruction/teaching you follow determine’s the future you create“ ”What‘s in you’re heart will never change, until you let Jesus in”!
For 30 years I did things my way (Satans way) and failed, when I decide to try God’s way through Jesus my life took a 180 degree turn and now God clears a path daily for my prosperity.
Jehovah-Jireh………………..God Who provides all my needs. God is always on time with my needs.
I will stay with living by God’s word, and let others follow mans word! This is the day the Lord as made; I will rejoice and be glad in it! Psalms 118-24.
SpeckledPup
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:58amin other words, the little obamacommie group wants the university to go to a group of gay degenerate atheists and communists.
Report Post »trinity76
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:51amI suggest these people go get a copy of Kevin Roose’s “The Unlikely Disciple” which was written by a non-evangelical attending Brown. He decided to spend a semester at Liberty with the challenge of immersing himself in a completely different culture. It‘s unlikely they’ll listen to any of us regarding our experiences with Liberty (my older daughter went there for three years before transferring to the large state university near our home) but maybe they’d listen to Rouse, who tends towards liberalism but found much of value in his experience at Liberty.
Report Post »MYHEROISRON
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:59amIf it wasn’t for double standards the left would have no standards …
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:35am. “We don’t want it to go to a place that is not open-minded, not willing to listen to the views of others,” he said……….true liberal because they do not wanna listen to other points of view unless they are liberal,socialist……………
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:22amHow is teaching everyone to love one another spiritually reguardless of their sins Homophobic. Here’s a clue to all the liberal douches of the world. If someone goes around beating up homosexual because they hate homosexuals they are homophobic. If you disagrees with their life style either spiritually or ideological you’re not homophobic. Easier example I don’t like coliflower anyone that says it the best vegetable is wrong in my eyes and I might suggest btter vegetables like spinach or greens. I‘m not coliflowerphobic I’m not stopping people from eating it even when I say it sucks. I don’t go around spraying herbacide of califlower fields,or destroy it in grocery stores produce section.
Report Post »HOMOPHOBIC,RACIST,AND SEXIST are BS labels designed to limit people from having independent thought by threatening with undesirable labels and social ostrasizing on some level.
Well go ahead an label me HOMOSEXUALITY IS WRONG IT’S NOT WHAT NATURE TRUELY INTENDED. Is it a bad thing no some genes should be removed from the pool. Should people search for gays and assault them no . Should gays be public rediculed YES as long as they continue labeling free minded people will hateful slurs. Should gays get special treatment NO you chose your own path walk it like an adult. TOLERENCE doesn’t imply acceptance or embracement of an life choice different that your own. people tolerate winos,and drug addicts living around them do they accept that as a viable lifestyle choice…NO.
EqualJustice
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:33amLast time I looked at OUR CONSTITUTION, WE ARE ALLOWED to have different OPINIONS and BELIEFS from the PROGRESSIVE LIBERALS! When did that change exactly? It appears to be OPEN SEASON on anything Conservative. ABO 2012 and we BETTER TAKE THE SENATE or Dirty Harry will continue to BLOCK everything.
Report Post »Atilla
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:18amAs a resident of the People Republic of MA, those comments are par for the course and reveal the commentators as suffering from the same closed mind that they condemn. It is progressive/Marxist trash that attempts to deligitimize all opposition to their secular humanistic nonsense. All control freeaks go ballistic when anyone says no. So when there is a percieved threat to their garbage of state worship they can be expected to come emotionally unstable. The Marxist are a walking, talking contradiction of terms. While espousing the diveristy of thought they will fight against diversity of thought. The word liberal is in and of itself the exact opposite olf what the progressive Marxist is all about. They are all about the totalitarion excertion of of government group think. Resist them by all leagal means possible.
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:50amMy condolences to you. Keep up the fight there friend.
Report Post »Prolifeadair
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:17amI live about 35 minutes away from this property. Liberty University, in this area, is seen as a backward cesspool of bigots who have no capacity for intellectual thought. Although my personal preference would be for a conservative Catholic institution, I do hope Liberty comes to this area and educates the locals and spreads the gospel.
Report Post »krispy01
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:30amI live in the area also. The town should be jumping at the opportunity to have ‘Liberty North’ in their town. The comments by the alumni about having Liberty there would clash with the legacy of the place that D.L. Moody founded is bunch of crap ! He was an evangelist of the Gospel of Christ…I don’t think he would be very popular in Northfield today. I know many Liberty students and graduates who attend my church. Their parents wouldn’t mind saving a few $$$ by having Liberty in commutable distance….bring it on !
Report Post »Windwalker
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:58amI wonder how many of these 1,000 signing petitioners have ever actually read Dwight L. Moody. He preached the same gospel as Falwell preached,
Report Post »Terry1242
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 6:32pmNortheastern liberals are the most bigoted people in the US. “Christian”sets them off. They are ignorant and snobbish. They know nothing about Christian colleges in general,much less Liberty. I recently read a study, Paul Starr’s “Social Transformation of American Medicine,” where he noted that in the mid 19th century, about 25% of the grads of Harvard,Princeton and other Ivy League colleges went into the ministry–a ministry that today probably would be pretty equivalent to Liberty’s beliefs.God help us.
Report Post »discus02
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:15amTalk about closed minded you could alson mention a good portion of the Universities across the country.
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:14amLiberty Univ in Lynchburg Va is one of the nicest, cleanest facilities in the area and employs many, many people. This is a prime opportunity to send the Black Lib Theology crowd or better yet the Nation of Islamofacists- go north all you extremists.
Report Post »Prolifeadair
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:37amThat is a really good point. North Central MA is in dire need of good jobs. They should be jumping at the chance for Liberty to come here!
Report Post »TRUMPETCALL
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:03amBe careful, all those who would allow the sale to just any group that masquerades itself as a “church”….. The “church” of SCIENTOLOGY is always looking for large facilities on prime real-estate. And, they’re ALWAYS hiring!
Report Post »conservativemommy
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:14amNot only are they maligning Liberty, they are insulting the legacy of D L Moody. All three of my children have attended Liberty. The oldest is in grad school at a secular University now. (and at the top of her class) The youngest is in pre-med there, now. The best decision I ever made was to send them to Liberty. We could have afforded to send them to an ivy league school. My thoughts were: Over my dead body will I spend my husband’s hard-earned money to have them taught by a bunch of liberal nut cases who will promote abortion, euthanasia, evolution and secular humanism.
Report Post »I cannot get over the gall of these people to claim to know what D L Moody would think.
grandmaof5
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:39amI applaud you for sticking to your principles! I wish Glenn, Rush (actually the collective group of conservative hosts) would get together and open “Liberty Prep School” in some of the inner city areas so these kids would have an alternative to progressive liberal public education (if you can call it an education). The Progressives have tainted education, beginning in kindergarten, and it is time to turn the tide. 3/5 of my grandchildren are in public high school and it scares me to death. Fortunately their parents are conservative and have taught them good values and common sense. Thank goodness there is Liberty University!
Report Post »Beckster2
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:39amGRANDMAOF5 That is an excellent idea. Rush wanted to get involved in an NFL team but what better endeavor for him and Sean Hannity (New Englander) and Mark Levin than to put up the money for the Limbaugh Liberty Institute. It’s time to take on the old school schools.
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Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:06pmThanks, BECKSTER2, it would also be a win/win for good teachers who are trapped in the progressive/unionized system. I bet there are plenty of empty buildings that would fit the bill in inner city areas. There could also be “community school” for parents who have hit a wall in their education, or lack of education.
Report Post »momsense
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:03amI see them as principled and reasonable and a credit to academic and religious freedom—something the Obama administration is working double time, overtime, Sundays and Holidays to extinguish in this country.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:20amThey said “We don’t want it to go to a place that is not open-minded, not willing to listen to the views of others,”
Report Post »Well whose more close minded than a liberals…someone tell me
Liberal aren‘t open to debate on any subject when contradictory facts are presented it’s back to insults yelling with fingers in their ears.
Gonzo
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:31amSmith, by that definition, they should close down Harvard.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:59amIn a state that is so liberal that a Christian university is feared and opposed, I guess Mitt actually was “severely conservative”.
Report Post »Atilla
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:37amWay beyond liberal. Marxist is the more accurate term.
Report Post »4truth2all
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:36pmThese people have removed God, and they don’t want Him back. They actually believe they can do it by signing a petition…what foolishness !!!
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