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Democrats and independents are a machiavellian
group--Michigan proved that with 18% of
Dems and 35% of indies sending Senator John McCain to a win in last
month's primary, upsetting the Bush Blitzkrieg. They know who
is more likely to beat VP Al Gore in the fall. Given two empty suits
on the stage, voters are likely to respond with a junior high-style
popularity contest, with Texas governor George W. Bush easily taking
the lead. After all, he was voted Yale's BMOC in 1968.
But nothing can help McCain now…In the open primaries, where Dems
and indies can cross over and vote in the Republican primary, McCain
has won, but Tuesday, February 29, Bush re-established himself as his
party's favorite. Virginia, North Dakota, and Washington brought Bush's
total delegates to 170, compared to McCain's 105--putting energy back
into a campaign that was flailing only a week ago.
Bob "No Excuses" Jones
Turns out, The New York Times rushed to judgement on Bush's demise.
In the New York Times Magazine last Sunday, a large red photo of George
Bush embracing Gov. David Beasley of South Carolina at Bob Jones University
in Greensville, SC accompanied this paragraph:
But more than anything else, the Bob Jones
debacle is a telling case study of the importance of symbolic politics.
Candidates who are not sufficiently sensitive to symbols can cause
themselves irreparable damage in one fleeting utterance or, in the
case of Bush, one 45-minute appearance.
McCain hasn't stopped talking about it - and the fact that it took
a news conference for Bush to speak out against the University's racist
policies. So, let's go see if there's anything to this "symbol"
of racism…
At the Bob Jones University, you can find the
following statements regarding their policies on race…
(from The
Truth About Bob Jones University)
Is Bob Jones University guilty of racism because it has a rule restricting
interracial dating? Students of all races attend here and live in
racial harmony and respect for one another as Christians. If there
is discrimination in the policy, which race is discriminated against?
Black, white, or yellow? Each person dates within his own race. For
there to be discrimination, one race would have to be treated differently
than the other.
None of the University's rules have any
bearing or influence upon society at large.
Does Bob Jones University look down upon
interracially married couples? No. The warning against interracial
marriages is not about the couple, but about the one-world system
Is there a Bible principle upon which the
University's interracial dating stance is founded? Yes… The one-world
principle--every effort man has made, or will make, to bring the world
together in unity--plays into the hand of Antichrist. This first began
at the Tower of Babel, and it will culminate at Armageddon when the
Lord returns to establish His rule of peace and harmony for a thousand
years.
Bob Jones University opposes one world,
one church, one economy, one military, one race, and unisex. God made
racial differences as He made gender differences. Each race and each
sex should be proud to be what God made it, and none should reproach
the other.
At the Tower of Babel, God used language
to disrupt man's plans for a one-world government. As a result of
this disruption, the people were scattered, and the races were polarized.
One thing is clear: God wanted a divided world, not a federalized
world. Based on this biblical account (Genesis 10 and 11), the University
wishes to give God the benefit of any doubt and avoid pursuing any
direction that would give assistance to the renewed efforts of man
to create a one-world community consisting of one religion, one economy,
one government, and one race. The biblical account of Babel and God's
response to it are historical fact. This Christian institution merely
seeks to live and function under its best understanding of what God
is teaching us from this passage about His purposes for the world.
Say amen.
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