HYPOCRISY RULES THE DAY
by Gary L. Morella
he problem with what's going on at Penn State is the hypocrisy of their
own standards in the university manual which demands that sensitivity be
shown to all groups on campus. Many feel that a similar desecration of
the President of the University, Graham Spanier, Martin Luther King, Jr.,
or Barney Frank would not have been allowed to have seen the light of
day using the aforementioned PSU guidelines as the reason. Christians,
it seems to me, have a legitimate question in that why don't those same
guidelines apply to them. Or do they fall through the cracks in terms
of political correctness?
One of the first things that Spanier did when he came here was to remove
the Christmas tree which had been a tradition in Old Main, the administrative
buildings over the holidays. It was, no doubt offensive to someone, no matter
that the holiday (holyday) being celebrated was one of the most important
ones for the billions of Christians worldwide. No matter that this country
was founded on Christian roots where separation of Church and State is
never found in the founding documents and where it, most assuredly was never
intended to mean separation of Church from state given the reasons that
people came from the old country over here. The idea was to get away from
a state imposed religion. What we have not is just that, the state religion
of secular humanism which says that you can't have any religion in public.
You see Kwanza, and any other myriad creations of the mind of man celebrated
here over the holidays. You very seldom if ever see any University reference
to Christianity on display. Why, that would be offensive.
As far as the gay situation, I don't believe that the majority of Penn Staters
are interested in the social engineering experiments of a president whose on
record in a journal as saying that "wife swapping" is OK. To blatantly promote
the homosexual lifestyle through official university auspices using university
resources (the Office of the Vice Provost for educational equity) and then to
deny faculty the chance to respond to those who would promote perversion
under an umbrella of multiculturalism and diversity doesn't seem to me to
be a level playing field. What's frustrating is the apathy that people have
watching their rights trashed. Soon, they will wake up and find that they
don't have any. Why should the taxpayers of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
subsidize this trash (promotion of perversion) when it's anathema to their
faith, guaranteed persecution free practice of under the Constitution or what's
left of it. It's coercion pure and simple.