Bob Jones University Dean Endorses Mittens

[jefferson_dem]

Bob Jones Dean Endorses … Romney!
Michael M. Phillips reports on the presidential race.

A top official at Bob Jones University, the Evangelical Christian school with a history of anti-Mormon rhetoric, plans to throw his weight behind Mormon presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.

Robert R. Taylor, dean of the university’s college of arts and sciences, said he believes the former Massachusetts governor is the only Republican candidate who both stands a chance of winning the White House and will reliably implement the anti-abortion, antigay marriage, pro-gun agenda of Christian conservatives. (See a related post on Romney.)

“The fact that I’m seen as a Religious Right person would hopefully get others to step out for him,” Taylor said in an interview in Greenville, S.C., the university’s hometown.

Taylor’s endorsement, which he said he plans to announce in the near future, marks a stunning move for such a high-placed academic at Bob Jones University. In 2000, Bob Jones III, then president of the university, wrote a public letter that referred to Mormonism and Catholicism as “cults which call themselves Christian.”

Taylor acknowledged that endorsing a Mormon for president risked alienating the university’s conservative donors and alumni. But, he said, “we’re not electing a pastor — we’re electing a president.”

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http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2007/10/15/bob-jones-dean-endorses-romney/?mod=blogs

[AlCzervik]

1. Wow!! this imo is a big surprise, go mitt go! i really want him to be the one

that our democrat runs against in the general.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

2. Good get for Mitt. I wouldn't like being endorsed by people who think I'll burn in hell, but, hey.