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...this month Coons assured the Yale Divinity School's Notes from the Quad that serving in the Senate would be a "great way for me to apply the principles and values that were honed at YDS." Coons got a Master of Arts in Religion in 1994, specializing in ethics. He learned a lot.
Now everyone who has followed the Delaware race knows that the conservative, Christine O'Donnell, has been exposed by Bill Maher the comic genius for appearing on his show sometime in the 1990s and claiming to have "dabbled" in witchcraft. But do you know what was being taught at the Yale Divinity School when Coons was there as a graduate student? Witchcraft! Had Christine been a bit older and presumably sophisticated she could have attended classes with Chris and been taught witchcraft by scholars. Perhaps she could have earned a Ph.D. in the mysteries of reading chicken entrails.
Along with classes in witchcraft, there were classes in Queer Worship and Feminist/Womanist/Gendered Theologies, and, in the Introduction to Christian Ethics II, there was Black Liberation Theology, a study Coons first picked up in Africa. Were the "values" taught in these classes among those absorbed by Coons at the YDS? We do not know because Coons is not answering calls for him to release his transcripts.
Five e-mails and a follow-up phone call from The American Spectator to the Coons campaign have been ignored. The request? Since Coons' liberal friends have made much of a high-school date by O'Donnell with a guy into witchcraft, did Chris Coons take the "Witchcraft" course the school offers? How about the "Queer Worship," "Feminist/Womanist/Gendered Theologies" or "Introduction to Christian Ethics II" courses? The latter featuring readings by Black Liberation theology guru James Cone and social justice evangelist Ronald Sider? If not, what specific courses did Coons take while getting his Master of Arts in Religion at YDS -- graduating in 1994. Who were his teachers? What was the assigned reading?
The kind of socialist values taught in these courses have a direct bearing on Americans since Coons insists he will bring these values to Washington with him.
But the once voluble Coons is suddenly doing the old Nixon stonewall routine -- simply refusing to answer any questions even as questions pile up about just what he was taught and by whom while at the Yale Divinity School.
“The kind of socialist values taught in these courses have a direct bearing on Americans since Coons insists he will bring these values to Washington with him.”
I guarantee you that he took all of them, which is why he’s trying to pull the wool over people’s eyes by telling them about Harvard Divinity School. Which is one of the reasons I *don’t* trust academia! I’ve been there, and I know what courses they offer.
But then I’m just ignorant...