Trumping Morality

Oklahoma Wesleyan University ^ | January 2016 | Dr. Everett Piper

[EveningStar]

On January 18, Jerry Falwell, Jr. welcomed Donald Trump to Liberty University to speak in the school's chapel. As the college president who wrote the "this is not a daycare" article that received so much national attention recently, I have been asked by the media if I would be next: Will I be inviting Mr. Trump to Oklahoma Wesleyan University to speak in our chapel service? My answer has been simple and brief. No, I will not.

In selecting speakers for Oklahoma Wesleyan, party affiliation and political positions do not matter. Personal conduct, public statements, theological integrity and moral consistency do ...

Anyone who is pro-abortion is not on my side. Anyone who calls women "pigs," "ugly," "fat" and "pieces of a-" is not on my side. Anyone who mocks the handicapped is not on my side. Anyone who has argued the merits of a government takeover of banks, student loans, the auto industry and healthcare is not on my side ...

[Jim Robinson]

I doubt it. And I’m a gimp.

[pollywog]

GOOD for him and Oklahoma’s values.....God love him.

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AMEN

[Oklahoma]

Dr. Piper also said the following for those that didn’t read the entire essay.

I’m a conservative. I believe in conserving the dignity of life. I believe in conserving respect for women. I believe in conserving the Constitution. I believe in conserving private property, religious liberty and human freedom. I believe in morality more than I do in money. I hold to principles more than I yearn for power. I trust my Creator more than I do human character. I’d like to think that all this, and more, makes me an informed and thoughtful citizen and voter. I’ve read, I’ve listened and I’ve studied and there is NOTHING, absolutely nothing, in this man’s track record that makes Donald Trump “on my side.”

I refuse to let my desire to win “trump” my moral compass. I will not sell my soul or my university’s to a political process that values victory more than virtue.

[pollywog]

I agree... he summed it up and I applaud him for standing up for what is right.

[Jim Robinson]

And if the reporter gets all offended, then he needs to get a life. There’s nothing more offensive than the ungodly, un-American bile most of these reporters regurgitate daily anyway.

[PA Engineer]

A lot of Trump supporters don’t want to believe that Trump mocked the reporter. However, I have watched the video and it is quite clear that Trump is mimicking the jerky movement and awkward angle of the Reporters arm. It has not been proved to be a lie. In fact, pretty much everyone except the diehard Trump supporters say that Trump was mocking the Reporters disability.

You are making all that up. First, I don't think you have ever watched a Trump speech. Second, you modus operandi here is as a not stop troll, throwing up mud, and screaming outrage when confronted.

You have a posting history.

[beandog]

I agree.

[PA Engineer]

Anyone who watches that video knows he was mocking that reporters handicap, to say otherwise is a flat out lie!!

Then you never watched the speech. What does that say about you?

You don't have to answer. You wear your TDS on your sleeve.

[dschapin]

I defend my positions and admit it if I am shown to be wrong. I am not wrong on this one.

[yellowdoghunter]

Someone that would mock someone’s handicap has no bottom, they will do anything, regardless of ones profession, it is the lowest of the low to behave in such a manner.

[dschapin]

I agree.

[yellowdoghunter]

I did watch it several times, it was hideous and indefensible! It is only a matter of time before he does it to someone u respect or like.

Not that i personally know the reporter or anything but adults understand that someone who acts that way will do it to you also!

[PA Engineer]

I defend my positions and admit it if I am shown to be wrong. I am not wrong on this one.

LOL. You have been shown wrong before. You just disappeared from the thread. Your back again spreading the same lies. How conservative of you. Bless your tiny heart.

[pollywog]

I agree. As a mom of a Cerebral Palsy daughter if this had of been done to her no matter WHAT she had done, if her handicap had been made fun of, I would have exploded on the spot.

I saw the video. Trump DID mock the handicap. He can deny it. That is his right. But as video’s often do, it told the truth.
Sorry

[PA Engineer]

I did watch it several times, it was hideous and indefensible!

Your a liar. Give it a break. We know the narrative came from the Jeb campaign.

You know, you are probably worse than a liar. You waited for some time to spin this out of context. That makes you a coward too.

[yellowdoghunter]

I think that video will come back to haunt him in the general if he ends up with the nomination. Those types of things usually do come back to haunt the individual.

[dschapin]

Throwing insults is a sign that you are losing, not winning, the debate.

[yellowdoghunter]

U can call me names, that is what trump supporters have been taught to do. R u headed for twitter to continue the name calling.

But the video speaks for itself.

I will leave it at that.

[pollywog]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOD Bless this man for standing for truth!!!!!!!!

[PA Engineer]

Throwing insults is a sign that you are losing, not winning, the debate.

There is no debate. Pointing out your lies and posting history is an issue of fact and not argument.

All anyone has to do is click on your screen name and read your posts.