Posted by
KsReaganite on Sunday, December 20, 2009 2:02:07 AM
Almost a two hundred years ago, one of our greatest statesmen, Daniel Webster, made a passionate plea to the Supreme Court to let small Dartmouth College survive the onslaught of bureaucratic zeal “Sir, you may destroy this little institution; it is weak; it is in your hands! I know it is one of the lesser lights in the literary horizon of our country. You may put it out. But if you do so you must carry through your work! You must extinguish, one after another, all those greater lights of science which for more than a century have thrown their radiance over our land. It is, sir, as I have said, a small college. And yet there are those who love it”
Well, the heavy hands of the Obama administration are now on the tiny Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina. A small liberal arts institution run by the gentle Benedictine monks, Belmont Abbey is on the receiving end of federal investigation and possible prosecution by three arms of this administration: the Civil Rights Commission, the EEOC, and the Justice Department.
The crime of Belmont Abbey is its faith: it is college that follows the Roman Catholic teachings in letter and spirit. And few trait are more worthy prosecution and persecution in these times than authentic, counter-cultural, traditional Roman Catholic living.
You all know that KsReaganite is neither Roman Catholic nor subscribes to every tenet of Catholic teaching. But I urge you to support the cause of Belmont Abbey College because if is the cause of individual liberty and conscience. So, please help the college out as it fights against a bureaucracy that has no limits on zeal or funding. You can make a contribution here to the Belmont Abbey Chancellor’s Fund.
https://secure2.convio.net/bac/site/Donation2?idb=396605211&2480.donation=form1&df_id=2480&JServSessionIdr004=d7e5dejl25.app9a