Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Justice Anthony M.
Kennedy, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. : Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice
Stephen G. Breyer, Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Justice Elena Kagan. Justice
Clarence Thomas,
Pro Se Plaintiff Slave Negro Louis Charles Hamilton II
USN # 2712, and “Negro DNA Plaintiffs Slaves et al”
Further appearances Affirm, State and fully declare
all allegation, contention, disputes, disputation, argument, conflict and
disharmony, fully furtherance’s state as follows:
Anyone who is pro-abortion is not on my side. Anyone
who calls women “pigs,” “ugly,” “fat” and “pieces of a–” is not on my side.
Anyone who mocks the handicapped is not on my side.
Anyone who has argued the
merits of a government takeover of banks, student loans, the auto industry and
healthcare is not on my side.
Anyone who has been on the cover of Playboy and
proud of it, who brags of his sexual history with multiple women and who owns
strip clubs in his casinos is not on my side.
Anyone who believes the government can wrest control
of the definition of marriage from the church is not on my side. Anyone who
ignores the separation of powers and boasts of making the executive branch even
more imperial is not on my side.
I’m a conservative. I believe in conserving the
dignity of life. I believe in conserving respect for women. I believe in
conserving the Constitution. I believe in conserving private property,
religious liberty and human freedom. I believe in morality more than I do in
money.
I hold to principles more than I yearn for power. I
trust my Creator more than I do human character. I’d like to think that all
this, and more, makes me an informed and thoughtful citizen and voter.
I’ve
read, I’ve listened and I’ve studied and there is NOTHING, absolutely nothing,
in this man’s track record that makes Donald Trump “on my side.”
I refuse to let my desire to win “trump” my moral
compass. I will not sell my soul or my university’s to a political process that
values victory more than virtue.
No, Donald Trump will not be speaking at Oklahoma
Wesleyan University.
Dr. Everett Piper, President
Oklahoma Wesleyan University
This past week, I actually had a student come forward
after a university chapel service and complain because he felt “victimized” by
a sermon on the topic of 1 Corinthians 13. It appears this young scholar felt
offended because a homily on love made him feel bad for not showing love. In
his mind, the speaker was wrong for making him, and his peers, feel
uncomfortable.
I’m not making this up. Our culture has actually
taught our kids to be this self-absorbed and narcissistic. Any time their
feelings are hurt, they are the victims. Anyone who dares challenge them and,
thus, makes them “feel bad” about themselves, is a “hater,” a “bigot,” an
“oppressor,” and a “victimizer.”
I have a message for this young man and all others who
care to listen. That feeling of discomfort you have after listening to a sermon
is called a conscience. An altar call is supposed to make you feel bad. It is
supposed to make you feel guilty.
The goal of many a good sermon is to get you
to confess your sins—not coddle you in your selfishness. The primary objective
of the Church and the Christian faith is your confession, not your
self-actualization.
So here’s my advice:
If you want the chaplain to tell you you’re a victim
rather than tell you that you need virtue, this may not be the university
you’re looking for. If you want to complain about a sermon that makes you feel
less than loving for not showing love, this might be the wrong place.
If you’re more interested in playing the “hater” card
than you are in confessing your own hate; if you want to arrogantly lecture,
rather than humbly learn; if you don’t want to feel guilt in your soul when you
are guilty of sin;
if you want to be enabled rather than confronted, there are
many universities across the land (in Missouri and elsewhere) that will give
you exactly what you want, but Oklahoma Wesleyan isn’t one of them.
At OKWU, we teach you to be selfless rather than
self-centered. We are more interested in you practicing personal forgiveness
than political revenge. We want you to model interpersonal reconciliation
rather than foment personal conflict.
We believe the content of your character
is more important than the color of your skin. We don’t believe that you have
been victimized every time you feel guilty and we don’t issue “trigger
warnings” before altar calls.
Oklahoma Wesleyan is not a “safe place”, but rather, a
place to learn: to learn that life isn’t about you, but about others; that the
bad feeling you have while listening to a sermon is called guilt; that the way
to address it is to repent of everything that’s wrong with you rather than
blame others for everything that’s wrong with them. This is a place where you
will quickly learn that you need to grow up.
This is not a day care. This is a university.
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