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Dean Faces Bad News
for Banning Good News
by Mike Adams
Feb 27, 2012
Dear Dean (Name Withheld):
I am writing today with some very bad news for you. It would appear
that, by the end of the year, you may be removed from your position as
Dean of Students at (University Name Withheld). But, first, let me
share the Good News – that is, if you will promise not to prosecute me
for it.
I used to be an atheist. When people tried to share the Gospel with me,
I would hurl profanity at them. I would even use a word that begins
with “f” and ends with “u-c-k.” (I’m not talking about “fire-truck,” by
the way). The Gospel offended me, so I told people to take a hike
whenever they tried to share it with me. Now that I have converted, I
no longer suffer from that kind of extreme emotional insecurity. And
that is Good News. Now it’s time for the bad news.
Recently, a student at your university tried to share the Gospel with
another student at your university. That makes sense. You do work at a
Christian University. But then three things happened that made little
sense. I will present them in chronological order – and in order from
the least to most ridiculous event:
1. The student who was hearing the Gospel told the one sharing the
Gospel that it was “offensive.” Of course, the Gospel has always been
offensive. They would not have nailed Jesus to a cross if it were not.
Then, the student demanded that the sharer of the Good News end the
conversation. Fair enough. Maybe he was just having a bad day.
2. The next day, the still-offended student filed a speech code
complaint over the Gospel sharing incident. The conduct he was engaged
in, by the way, is considered sin by the Bible and “diversity” by the
student handbook. At many “Christian” universities, the pages of the
student handbook that deal with diversity carry more weight than the
pages of the Bible that deal with sin. So the real sin is often using
the word sin. And that is tantamount to banning the Gospel, which is
the only means of dealing with sin – in part, because it confronts sin
directly. So you have a choice between the speech code and the
Gospel – unless, of course, you were born with the speech code gene.
3. Finally, and most ridiculously, you actually took the complaint
seriously and forced the student to stop sharing the Gospel unless
someone specifically asked to hear it. The incident was isolated. There
was no accusation of harassment. The offending student had no intention
of speaking to the offended student again. But you had to permanently
ban him from initiating conversations about salvation at a so-call
Christian university. The more universities speak of tolerance, the
more they reek of intolerance. The paradox is that you’ve demonstrated
that principle with your indifference to principle.
But this is the last time you are ever going to silence a student who
wishes to share the Gospel. By my count – I have been talking with and
mentoring the “offending” student daily - you had approximately five
meetings in which you threatened disciplinary action. At each one of
these meetings you spoke. Each time you spoke, you offended the
Gospel-sharing student. And, worse, now that other Christians are
hearing of the incident, they are also offended and intimidated into
silence. Put simply, they are now afraid to share the Gospel at your
“Christian” university. One could say you are bullying them with the
speech code. And you can’t defend yourself by saying this was an
“isolated” incident. You prosecuted the Gospel-sharer based on an
isolated incident. Remember?
So I have done what I must do. I have begun by organizing a series of
five counter-claims against you – one for each time you spoke to the
Gospel-sharing student. These five claims will come from five different
students whose speech has been chilled by your conduct. They will all
be delivered at once in the form of hate speech charges. In other
words, you have used the speech code as a sword against others and now
the sword is about to be taken from you. And it will be pointed
directly toward your heart. Unless you relinquish it voluntarily
you will die by it.
Let me be very specific – even at risk of repeating myself: If you
don’t get rid of the campus speech code within the next ten weeks we
are coming after your job. That is only bad news if you do not repent
of your sinfully censorious ways and allow students to share the Good
News. As always, your fate depends upon your courage and willingness to
do the right thing. It is my fervent prayer that you will learn from
the example of your student-accusers. They are showing what it means to
be bold in the face of emotional weakness masquerading as intellectual
diversity.
You’ll be hearing from us soon,
Mike S. Adams
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