Posted on 06/28/2009 7:10:07 AM PDT by moneyrunner
Several years ago the son of a friend of mine graduated high school with a fairly high GPA and was in the top 15% of his class. He also had a good SAT score (~1250). He was no Poindexter but he was smart, good academics, some extra-curriculars, National Honor Society, etc.
He applied to North Carolina and was accepted, much to the astonishment of everybody who is familiar with how hard it is for an out-of-state white male to get accepted there. The family was very proud. Not long after, the family drove down to Chapel Hill for the orientation.
A few weeks later, my friend started bringing home some interesting mail from the family's post office box. There were weekly invitations to join various black organizations, black student clubs, and so forth. It turned out, after my friend confronted his son, that the son had noted on his original application materials that he was "African-American" because he figured it would help him get accepted.
My friend never told his proud wife (or anybody else but me as far as I know) about this, and the son "mysteriously" decided not to attend North Carolina after all.
Ain't America great?
Diversity is our strength.
I so totally hear you. Nothing in my life prepared me for having to leave the denomination in which my family had worshipped for generations and generations. It was worse than the death of a loved one -- more like a divorce, where the other party is still alive, but the situation has become so evil it cannot even be tolerated. It's been about 8 or 9 years now. I've been in ad hoc home churches of 5 to 8 people ever since, which have about a 3 to 5 year life span.
Out of my last 10 pastors in two different Conferences, several were gay or lesbian, a couple were closeted GL's married to other GL's as a cover, and the other few (heterosexuals) were enthusiastic advocates for having gays and women as pastors and for denouncing the perceived homophobia of traditional Christians, except for one -- he was an older pastor who had been a military chaplain and was pulled out of retirement until the next available lesbian could be found to don the rainbow stole and address God as "Mother and Lover" from the pulpit. Even he was trying to get down with it in order to fit in.
In one of the UMCs I attended, my reasonable inquiries about the rising tide of homosexual-behavior promotion going on from the pastors and the Board resulted in my receiving in the mail a computer printout of a list of sins, with mine highlighted in yellow. I who have always had the lowest blood pressure possible to sustain human life had to go to my doctor for high blood pressure.
So when we moved, we sought a small-town congregation full of old-time member families. But one thing after another kept happening-- movies with homosexual content shown to the MYF, patently false statistics about gays dropped into sermons, pastors getting up and leaving the room when various passages of scripture were discussed in Bible classes, that sort of thing.
Next thing I know, a group of renegades screamed and carried on so loudly at the Annual Conference about the "rights" of active gays to be pastors that police had to be called and the entire scandal made the large city newspapers across the country, naming our head pastor. That did it.
You might wonder why it took me so long. It was only those generations of Methodists and growing up as you described that kept me hoping and praying for a turnaround, for the private conversations by traditionalists in the hallways to turn into action, but it never came. One lady told me that she could never think of leaving now because she was in her late 70s and her burial plot next to her husband lay just outside the back door. She couldn't afford to have him disinterred and buy other plots, and couldn't see her way clear to observe Matthew 8:22, Matthew 16:24, or Luke 14:26 and leave for a real Christ-following church; she just wanted to go along to get along until she died.
So sad.
Wow, good thing he decided not to go. Think of the stink they would have made when the ruse was discovered. Sharpton would have been down there with his posse in a New York minute.
Actually, I think the university would have had some ‘splainin’ to do.
Raising a stink about something like that would NOT have been good publicity.
Wouldn’t that have been considered falsifying information? Most places would kick a kid out for falsifying an application. In this case, they would have made a huge example of a white kid trying to steal a place meant for a disadvantaged youth of color, yadda yadda.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that against the law?
“Huh... I guess I accidently checked the wrong box. Sorry about that.... Anyway, are you saying that your university discriminates on the basis of race? Didn’t the Supreme Court rule that unconstitutionaL? Isn’t your university breaking the law?”
Yadda yadda.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that against the law?
Universities are using all sorts of ways to get around any ban on affirmative action so that they can construct "diversity" any way they want to. There is a recent movement to stop using SAT scores. They will do anything to avoid having a majority of high-achieving whites, or too many males, et cetera; and each school has its own system. Their processes have become arcane and arbitrary.
I read a story in which one admissions officer described having a stack of possibles on her desk and an approaching deadline. She drew a chalk circle on the floor, climbed on a chair, dumped the stack, and took the ones that fell outside the circle.
When my kid was going through it and we were attending these open house events at various schools, I overheard one girl say, "I don't get it. I was accepted to Harvard, but couldn't get into Wake Forest."
My son recently applied to two grad schools....University of Washington and Stanford. We heard from UW first - turned him down. He figured Stanford was out, then, because it is more selective....but several weeks later he was accepted. We figured the UW denial was due to demographics.
Amazing, isn't it, when Stanford becomes a "safety school" in the diversity admissions lottery? oops! admissions process?
janet napolitano's looking for people who use the word "constitution" - her boys aren't looking for the gentle wonderful empathetic liberals who rape kids too young to be in kindergarten...
Your taxpayer dollars at work...
“Today Methodists disdain the teachings of Jesus and consider all belief a matter of personal choice. They ae no longer a Christian organization. “
You need to visit the Holsten Conference in Virginia. Full immersion baptism is still practiced for adults, solid preaching, charismatic.
The Baltimore conference bishop hounds chaismatics out of the church. Candidates for the ministry are routinely rejected if their theology is Biblical. Homosexuals are promoted to Superintendant where they prey on unsuspecting consevative pastors. It is a den of iniquity.
The Baltimore conference bishop hounds chaismatics out of the church. Candidates for the ministry are routinely rejected if their theology is Biblical. Homosexuals are promoted to Superintendant where they prey on unsuspecting consevative pastors. It is a den of iniquity.
bttt
Did the boys at Kos or the Vancouver Sun get up in arms about this? Or, as usual, was it crickets...
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