5,000 Christian students sign petition to disinvite Mike Pence

[wvit1001]

When Vice President Mike Pence gives speeches at graduation ceremonies, it’s almost always at religious or military institutions, but even places such as those aren’t entirely safe spaces for Pence. According to The Washington Post, students at an evangelical college in Indiana are protesting the VP’s scheduled commencement speech this coming May 18.

Taylor University president Paul Lowell Haines had nothing but praise for Pence, saying he’s “been a good friend to the University over many years,” adding that he’s a “Christian brother whose life and values have exemplified what we strive to instill in our graduates.” But not everyone at his school agrees.

As of this Thursday, a Change.org petition calling for Pence’s speaking engagement to be canceled has garnered almost 6,000 signatures.

According to the petition’s description, the school is giving Pence “a coveted platform for his political views,” which in turn “makes our alumni, faculty, staff and current students complicit in the Trump-Pence Administration’s policies, which we believe are not consistent with the Christian ethic of love we hold dear.”


http://deadstate.org/over-5000-christian-students-sign-petition-to-disinvite-mike-pence-from-speaking-at-evangelical-university/

[dont-blameme]

Spammer1001 link is so far left they don't walk to the left they crawl left!

[wvit1001]

you don't believe the article is citing anything that's really happened blammie?

[wvit1001]

Alex Hoekstra, a 2007 Taylor alumnus who started the petition, told NBC News that the “Trump-Pence administration’s policies don’t represent Christianity, Jesus or the Bible.”

“The Jesus that I read about in the Bible said, ‘Let the little children come to me,’ yet this administration is locking children up along the border, and Pence’s discrimination against the LGBT community is disgraceful,” Hoekstra said.

The Change.org petition is addressed to Taylor University President Paul Lowell Haines.


https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/choice-pence-graduation-speaker-divides-evangelical-university-n996091




The count for the petition is now up to 6000 +

https://www.change.org/p/taylor-university-president-paul-lowell-haines-protest-vice-president-mike-pence-at-taylor-university-commencement-ceremony?signed=true

[Truman62]

Don't listen to Balmie, it's opinions have shit in them.

[D2D]

Wvit why does this disgraceful display of leftist intolerance please you?

Do you hate free speech that much?

How would you feel if a university's student signed petitions to silence Obama?

Would you be gleeful about that?

[wvit1001]

I just like watching you fake Christians getting your due.

[D2D]

What is it you think Christians are due?

[Jim]

 
 
Go sign this petition to Support Mike Pence being invited to this college, and pass it on.

https://www.change.org/p/president-lowell-haines-support-vp-mike-pence-as-taylor-university-commencement-speaker

[D2D]

Good idea!

Too bad Wvit isn't willing to explain himself!

[1965hawks]

To: d2dvd!, dont-blameme, and jim

Students and alumni of Taylor University, an evangelical Christian school, do not want hypocrite mike pence to deliver this year's key commencement address. They want  the university to remain free from the trump-pence kakistocracy's shadow.

https://www.worldreligionnews.com/religion-news/students-want-university-rescind-pences-invite-speak-commencement

[sine-qua-non]

Sounds like Alex Hoestra isn’t a Christian, pot calling the kettle black, as his alleged statements don’t conform to the Word of God!

No where in the Bible does it condone sodomy perversion or any other sins! it only condemns them

Condemn him for the right reasons then, for being a Jesuit papist who want to destroy America!

So sad to see the TDS folks misrepresenting the Word of  God because of their hate for a legitimate POTUS!