Take the Hint, Please
The President of a local university says that she isn’t planning to retire. It is interesting to note that the board of trustees at said university are meeting this week to discuss the “leadership transition” at the school.
I wonder if it has anything to do with the former employee, now dead guy they found by her pool last week.
And to update the Alabama Politics link from yesterday, the black leaders were denied in their attempts to place excerpts from the I have a Dream speech next to the statue of the Ten Commandments.
If you ask me, none of that shit should be there. At least, not as a permanent part of the building [I'm sure that allowances should be made for presentations and exhibits]. Judge Moore explains himself by saying that since the Ten Commandments were a part of the Founding Fathers’ rhetoric and played heavily in the formation of the Constitution, he is championing their display in public buildings and says they will contribute to an increase in general moral character.
Well, maybe, Judge Moore, but they also thought that leeches were tip-top medicinal practice and that slavery was not such a bad thing.
And I think they also pretty specifically outlined a separation of church and state, but I can see how that might be easy to overlook.
And to the black legislators - what’s up? I can see your point [sort of] and I understand what you think you are accomplishing, but you are really missing the bigger picture here. Its not that Moore displayed what he wants and won’t let you have your display, its the simple fact that Moore has displayed an obvious religious symbol on state property giving the clear impression of state sanction of said religious symbol.
I kinda think that might infringe upon a given citizen’s constitutional rights, don’t you?
p.s. - turns out Judge Moore is a poet. But not a very good one.
