Graduation Stories

[Belsnickel]

(05-20-2019, 11:24 PM)bfine32 Wrote: No doubt, we all can't be experts on everything. But to me one of their implied duties would be to attend the school's graduation ceremony. Pence gave pretty much the same speech at Liberty the week prior. Do you know why that one wasn't political?

Members of the staff and student body didn't make it so. 

But you've already indicated you're good with educators sharing their political bias while on the clock. Perhaps that's part of what their job "really is".

It has already been said, but Liberty is a bit of a different animal. They absolutely WOULD have punished anyone that walked out, likely by firing them. They are seriously strict about these sorts of things. I think the main difference, though, is that most students and employees at Liberty only really know Pence as VP. People at Taylor, which is in Indiana, will have a longer term opinion of Pence based upon his actions as Governor and Congressman. So when you combine the understanding of Liberty as a much stricter right-wing school and the differences in their relationship, for lack of a better word, with Pence, it makes sense that you would have different reactions.

Also, had anything like that happened at Liberty, Falwell would've made sure it didn't hit the press. They're good at that sort of thing.