Chic Fil A alma mater cows to Super Trumpers, disinvites Bush Eulogist Jon Meacham

   Dan Cathy, the CEO of Chic Fil a is a 1975 graduate of Samford University where I think his brother, Bubba, followed the next year. Dan was in my religion class at Furman before he matriculated.

    His Father Truett, named for the greatest Baptist of the first half of the 20th Century, George W. Truett of Hayesville, NC and Baylor, was a Trustee of Mercer College in the 1980s and stood by President Kirby Godsey when he was under a merciless assault by fundamentalists.

    In March of 93 I attended an Inquisition of Samford President Tom Corts at FBC Bham, orchestrated by the Bircher Albert Lee Smith. Corts told about a thousand preachers from across the state right after the big snow storm that year, "There is no virtue in sustained denunciation."

     But with the arrival of Trump and super Trumper Baptists they claim a feather in their cap with the removal of Jon Meacham, the noted Vanderbilt historian and eulogist for Bush 41 and wife Barbara.

     Baptist News Global has a thorough report up this morning. Read it closely. Former Samford SGA President Todd Heifner, SU 91, has a testimonial up this morning at his facebook site. He didn't mince words.

     Angel Ballenger Sandlin and Emily Kirby appear to be two key people ginning up a petition to disinvite Meacham who speaks with wisdom on the soul of America. These air headed close minded fundamentalist Super Trumpers are about as intellectually curious as Tim Tebow's Eagle Forum Momma Pam.

   See Jill Lepore book These Truths for Eagle Forum in political context.

    Samford, meanwhile has embraced the super Trumper Eric Metaxas, a friend of FBC Spartanburg and Trey Gowdy's Truth for a New Generation conferences. Steve Harmon of nearby Gardner Webb Div School and his friend at Duke Curtis Freeman have the goods on Metaxas and have said so, as does Charles Marsh of the University of Virginia.

    For Samford to cow to these fundies and Chic Fil A be struck mute is very disturbing. And in the hometown of Martin Luther King Jr, and Hugo Black, Emmy Lou Harris, a school that helped shaped Wayne Flynt , a great friend of Harper Lee, and the songwriter Kate Campbell.

     Check the facebook site of Ms Sandlin. If she isnt a Q anon symp, who is. And Rick Burgess and Bubba, and the frat boys at Bama and Auburn who love the chant Lets Go Brandon.........

    Shout out to Ms Sandlin and Miss Kirby of Vestavia, the story on the politics of abortion is old and chocked full of Mendacity. Googly Stansell, Holy War, New Republic. Apparently somewhere in Covington Ga and Vestavia Hills Bammer, a preacher didn't learn that mendacity is not a Christian Virtue.