Convicted Watergate Criminal And Religious Right Spokesperson Chuck Colson Blasts Calvin College Protest Against President

Convicted Watergate figure and prominent religious right spokesperson Chuck Colson is linking to my site today as part of an article critical of faculty, students, staff, and alumni at Calvin College for protesting against the president. Colson, who took part in the “Justice Sunday” event which explicitly claimed those who opposed the president’s judicial nominees where “against people of faith,” is upset that people associated with the conservative Calvin College campus for what he claims where attacks criticizing the president’s faith because of the war in Iraq and his economic policies. Colson, a man who has demonstrated contempt for the truth in his carrier, ignores the facts here as well. No one at Calvin questioned the president’s faith. They just said the president’s policies benefiting the wealthy and powerful at the expense of the least of these (not to mention waging unprovoked war) didn’t match their understanding of the Christian faith. The president has actually claimed that God wants him to be president. Those at Calvin should be applauded for defending Christianity from those on the religious right who want to highjack our faith for partisan political purposes.