Posted on 07/01/2017 4:54:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
East Central University said they will remove crosses, Bibles and other religious symbols from a campus chapel to appease a bunch of out-of-town agitators.
It’s unclear when the Oklahoma school will commence with the Christian cleansing of the Kathryn P. Boswell Memorial Chapel. The chapel opened in 1957.
“We will continue to use the building as we always have, for all faiths,” ECU President Katricia Pierson said in a statement to the Ada News. “We do not want to presume to embrace one faith over another. We support all cultures and attempt to make them comfortable when they are here.”
The university’s president went on to say they are “looking at the feasibility of removing the cross on the steeple, but need to respond to the request for removal of religious icons from the chapel.”
“We are exploring options for preserving the items,” she said.
So on the bright side, it appears East Central University will not burn the Bibles or toss the crosses into a wood chipper.
Americans United for the Separation of Church and State is responsible for the Christian cleansing at ECU. They fired off a terse letter accusing the school of displaying “religious iconography.” That letter was obtained by the Ada News.
“These displays include Latin crosses on the top of and inside the building, Bibles and a Christian altar,” the letter stated. “While it is legal for a public university to have a space that can be used by students for religious worship so long as that space is not dedicated solely to that purpose, it is a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to display religious iconography on government property.”
That’s a great big load of legal malarkey.
Hiram Sasser, director of litigation for First Liberty Institute, said there is federal precedent to maintain chapels in taxpayer-funded facilities.
“We have a Congressional Prayer Room in the Capitol, we have chapels in government owned airports and many other government owned chapels,” Sasser told me.
Sasser suspects Americans United is just testing Oklahoma’s new attorney general – Mike Hunter.
“They want to see if he backs down or stands up to their ridiculous claims and I predict Mike Hunter will fight hard to preserve this historic chapel,” Sasser said.
Meanwhile, many Oklahomans are furious over the university’s decision to capitulate to those who want to eradicate Christianity from the public marketplace.
“I feel betrayed by our own country, upset that this could take place in America,” alum Jill Tucker Brown told me. “We are a nation founded on Christianity.”
Ms. Brown believes the university should stand up to the atheist and secularist bullies.
“I think it is absurd that anyone would go to this length (to remove the cross),” she told me. “If this university does not stand up for their rights, this will not be their only fight.”
Anita Thomas is also a graduate of East Central University and she is heartbroken over the news.
“I am heartbroken because our country has become a place where things like this can happen,” she told me. “
Much like the Islamic radicals, the atheists and secularists want to erase Christianity from the public marketplace. And they are waging their cultural jihad not with bombs – but with lawsuits.
As I wrote in “The Deplorables’ Guide to Making America Great Again,” it is time for patriots to mobilize and fight back. Appeasement is not the answer.
First, contact the university’s president and politely voice your opinion. Second, contact Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter and urge him to fight back against this godless scourge. And finally, the university’s alumni should immediately halt all funding.
If they remove the cross from the chapel – we should remove “In God we Trust” from their bank account.
The University face book page says they have decided not to move these things until a more detailed plan and study can be completed. They have caught a huge backlash from alumni and residents over this and admitted in their comments they moved too fast. I know there are plenty of lawyers out there who would defend them against these atheists bigots and thugs pro bono and almost surely win the case. Don’t cave to these lunatics University, show some backbone.
Purity BOOJIT !
Every semblance and direction towards Jesus is eliminated.
Christians are not allowed.
Have a “symbol closet” in the chapel
The rule is that an incoming group must replace the symbols on display with those from the closet they wish to use. Those not in use must be safely put on shelves in the closet.
All are represented by their own labor of setting up the ones they want which are available.
No group can desecrate the symbology of other groups.
Have they picked a spot where the crescent moon and star are going? Maybe next to the spot they picked for the hammer & sickle.
They defile the chapel so I pee on their school.
Address: 1100 E. 14th, PMB Y-8
Ada, OK 74820
Phone: 1 580-332-8000
<><>CONTACT Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter.
TALKING POINTS urge him to fight back against this godless scourge.
Oklahoma Attorney General's Office
Address: 313 Ne 21st St,
Oklahoma City, OK 73105
Phone: (405) 521-3921
<><>CONTACT East Central University Alumni Association
TALKING POINTS the university’s alumni should immediately halt all funding.
Alumni Association
1100 E. 14th Street
Ada, Oklahoma 74820
Tele 580. 559.5651
Another (gag) “legacy” of the Obama abomination.
And people tolerate a nitwit like that?
What would be an atheist symbol? Do atheists go to chapel to not pray to a not-god?
Will they add m*slim symbols? a noose, a machete, a tall building, a bomb vest?
It’s a symbol about nothing.
The university is wrong to cave to the ACLU.
The official state religion is Atheism, in complete violation of the Constitution.
Atheists have religious beliefs like everyone else. All other faiths are suppressed by the state with an exception, of course, for islam.
>>And people tolerate a nitwit like that?
Those nitwits are a majority in America. They are Natural Man, who has been “freed” in our post-modern culture from having to pretend to be Christian. But, the Cross offends them greater than all the other symbols because it (and only the Cross) has power, the power to change their hearts.
Natural Man does not want his heart changed. If you can look at a cross and feel comfort, thank God. The people who look at it and feel anger have an eternity of torment ahead of them.
Why have the chapel? Guess that will be their next question.
I hope this is true, and not just a diversion to what they intend to do......iow ...’throwing a bone’
Who was Kathryn P. Boswell, and why is a chapel named after her (the article doesn’t say)? I tried a search on Google and Bing. All they had were articles on the chapel being “cleansed”.
Has the fiend Barry Lynn entered into his eternal “barbecue” yet?
However, note tagline.
Amendment I. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...
CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW....CONGRESS.
I get so frustrated with these idiots on the left who push this crap and fools on the right who won't fight it.
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