The religious right closed ranks around the vice president as some students, faculty and alumni expressed concern about his planned appearance at Taylor University in Upland, Ind.
Vice President Pence speaks during the 2017 commencement ceremony at the University of Notre Dame. He is scheduled to speak next month at Taylor University, also in Indiana, in a planned appearance that has drawn backlash. By Isaac Stanley-Becker Isaac Stanley-Becker Reporter based in the U.K.
“Mr. Pence has been a good friend to the University over many years,” said the school’s president, Paul Lowell Haines, calling the vice president “a Christian brother whose life and values have exemplified what we strive to instill in our graduates.” Meanwhile, as the commencement controversy deepened this week, Christian leaders and conservative news outlets closed ranks around Pence. The reaction to the dissent from some students, faculty and alumni revealed not only the tight embrace binding the religious right to the Trump administration but also right-wing media’s alacrity in painting protesting students as oversensitive.
Graham, who argues that Trump “defends the faith” even if he is not the “best example of the Christian faith,” concluded of Pence: “There couldn’t be a better, more qualified, more inspirational speaker for graduates to hear from or a better example for them to follow in life.” And a competing petition, supporting Pence as Taylor’s commencement speaker, has drawn nearly 2,500 signatures by early Thursday.
His father, George H.W. Bush, spoke before more diverse audiences, including graduating seniors at Texas A&M University and the University of Michigan. In Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1991, the elder Bush delivered a message that could just as well come from the lips of his successors in today’s Republican Party, denouncing “political correctness” as an assault on free speech.
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