Looks like Romney broke the evangelical glass ceiling-Bob Jones university Deans endorses him

[AlCzervik]

October 15, 2007, 5:56 pm
Bob Jones Dean Endorses … Romney!
Michael M. Phillips reports on the presidential race.


Romney
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.”

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

[triguy46]

1. This is of some significance...

But wonder how it will play nationwide. going to take quite a bit to get baptists, who've been told for years that the mormons are a godless cult, to vote for him. Don't think BJU has that much clout.

[AlCzervik]

3. it surprised me, it smacks of desperation on the far right.

[jpgray]

2. Shall we call it the stained-glass ceiling?

:rofl:

[AlCzervik]

4. at good ole "BJ U"

[Swamp Rat]

5. Oops!

:D

[DS1]

6. what's a flip-flop again?

[msongs]

7. terrorist groups stick together nt

[Lint Head]

8. I was born and raised in that area. Bob Jones 'U' is

a school for the American Taliban. They just recently let black students and white students intermingle. :dem:

[Momgonepostal]

9. And yet, I have to wonder...

If any of Mitt's kids applied to BJU, would they be admitted or would they be turned away due to not being "christian" enough.