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To: FJB who wrote (772139)	2/28/2014 5:39:14 PM
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Purdue University removes ‘God’ from plaque ........................................................................................ Fox News ^ \| 2/28/2014 By Todd Starnes foxnews.com Purdue University, which once defended the right of a private speaker to blaspheme Jesus, has banned an alumni donor from using the word “God” on a plaque because it might offend someone. Dr. Michael McCracken and his wife made a $12,500 pledge to the university’s school of mechanical engineering. In return, Purdue, a large public university in Indiana, offered the McCrackens the opportunity to name a small conference room in a lab building. They were also invited to supply language for a plaque that would be installed in the room. McCracken chose to name the room after his father, Dr. William McCracken, who graduated from Purdue with a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, and his mother Glenda, who died recently. Hopefully someone from Purdue University will return my telephone call so we can be enlightened on why it’s OK to blaspheme Jesus, but it’s not OK to reference God. The plaque was inscribed with the following message: *“To those who seek to better the world through the understanding of God’s physical laws and innovation of practical solutions. In honor of Dr. William ‘Ed’ and Glenda McCracken.”* McCracken says the university had rejected the message because it amounted to an “impermissible government endorsement of religion.” He was stunned. Without notifying the family, the university installed a plaque that only mentioned McCracken’s parents. A staff member in Purdue’s communications office told me they were looking into the matter, but so far they have not offered an official comment. “Purdue is not a God-free zone,” said Jeremiah Dys, a Liberty Institute attorney representing the McCrackens. “Purdue’s ban on any reference to God by a private speaker violates the First Amendment of the Constitution.” Dys tells me they have petitioned the university to install the original message, but so far they’ve met a stone wall of resistance in Boilermaker Land. “They said it might offend someone and might possibly cause a violation of the Establishment Clause,” Dys said. I spoke to McCracken by telephone. He said he and his wife carefully chose the words they wanted to put on the plaque. “My wife and I were simply trying to honor the legacy of my parents – the things they instilled in me – one being a love of education, the other being a passion for solving problems and (the) third being a desire to understand the physics that God put into motion,” he said. They even offered an alternative that would make it quite clear the message was coming from the family and not the university. But the university still declined, he said. Ironically, in 2001, Purdue University defended the rights of a private speaker to blaspheme Jesus in a university space, said attorney Robert Kelner, another attorney representing the McCrackens. He reminded Purdue officials in a letter that they successfully defended a court case involving a student production of “Corpus Christi” that referenced Jesus Christ as a homosexual who had sexual relations with His disciples. “It is difficult to imagine that the First Amendment permits a private speaker to blaspheme Jesus at length in University spaces, yet simultaneously prohibits the McCrackens from mentioning ‘God’s physical laws,’” Kelner wrote. That certainly appears to be a double-standard. “By permitting secular expression and expression that portrays deity in a negative context while simultaneously refusing to permit private religious speech, the university has engaged in just the type of ‘egregious…content discrimination’ that constitutes impermissible viewpoint discrimination,” Kelner wrote. McCracken told me he’s not all that happy with his alma mater. “I’ve always been a proud Purdue alum,” he said. “I was deeply disappointed in the university’s decision to refuse the words I’d chosen to honor my parents.”

To: FJB who wrote (772139)	2/28/2014 6:25:17 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1576294

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To: FJB who wrote (772139)	3/1/2014 12:47:31 AM
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Obama’s Interior Secretary to Dying Eskimos: “I’ve Listened to Your Stories, Now I Have to Listen to the Animals.” .................................................................................. February 28, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield frontpagemag.com King George III was a tyrant who talked to trees. Eventually we got around to replacing him with tyrants who talk to animals. In one of Alaska’s most remote outposts, where a thousand hardy souls make their homes, the Obama administration has put the fate of birds and bears above the lives of people, blocking construction of an 11-mile gravel trail connecting a tiny fishing hamlet to a life-saving airport. King Cove has a clinic, but no hospital or doctor. Residents must fly 600 miles to Anchorage, via Cold Bay’s World War II airstrip, for most medical procedures including serious trauma cases and childbirth. Frequent gale-force winds and thick fog often delay or jeopardize medevac flights. According to local Aleutian elders, 19 people have died since 1980 as a result of the impossible-to-navigate weather conditions during emergency evacuations. U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Monday rejected a proposal for a one-lane gravel road linking the isolated community of King Cove with the all-weather airport in Cold Bay some 22 miles away. During an August visit to Alaska, Jewell was told that building a road that connects King Cove and Cold Bay was vital. But in December, Jewell rejected the road saying it would jeopardize waterfowl in the refuge. “She stood up in the gymnasium and told those kids, ‘I’ve listened to your stories, now I have to listen to the animals,” Democratic state Rep. Bob Herron told a local television station. “You could have heard a pin drop in that gymnasium.” Della Trumble, spokesperson for the Agdaagux Tribal Council and King Cove Corp., called Jewell’s decision “a slap in the face” just in time for the holiday week. The Interior secretary called her personally, Trumble said, but she was at the store and only got the message when she returned to the office. “She says that she knows that I’m not going to like her decision and wishes me and my family a very merry Christmas,” she said. “I’ve not returned the call because I don’t trust myself.” Etta Kuzakin, a 36-year-old King Cove resident who serves as Agdaagux tribal president, needed an emergency Caesarean section in March after going into early labor with her now 9-month-old daughter, Sunnie Rae. Giving birth in King Cove could have killed her and her baby, she said. But with medevac flights grounded by ugly weather, Kuzakin waited in labor for 10 hours until the U.S. Coast Guard helicopter flew her out in the afternoon. “If there had been a road, it would be two hours out,” she said. “I sat there in labor not knowing if I was going to die or my kid was going to die. Pretty traumatic.” Back in 1997, Bill Clinton threatened to veto the King Cove Safety Act. Presumably Bill was also listening to the animals. This is what environmentalists are like. They are constitutionally incapable of empathy for human beings. Instead they deploy a self-righteousness that masks an inner callousness and cruelty.