One of my favorite conservative columnists of late is Mike Adams, if only because he does a nice job of skewering the nonsense political subtext that those of us who work at universities pretty much can’t avoid.
For example, his column on diversity is absolutely on target from my experience.
One of the amusing things about diversity rhetoric is that those behind it pretend that it’s a universal value, but in fact it’s basic special pleading.
So the one seminar I ever attended about diversity explicitly validated my particular religious beliefs — i.e. atheism — while at the same time denigrating the religious beliefs of more widely held beliefs, such as fundamentalist Christianity.
Adams writes,
Recently, I also noticed that the university’s Women’s Center website provides a link to gay churches. One of the writings is called “Christ on a Rainbow.” It is located just below another called “Love that is binding: The musings of a deep throated Pollyana.” One of the advertisements for a local gay church reads, “Whatever you believe, we embrace you!” All this, despite the center’s refusal to provide a link to a crisis pregnancy center because it is, in the director’ words, “overtly religious.”
Source:
NAMBLA: Coming to a campus near you! Mike S. Adams, September 29, 2003.