More Reasons To Oppose Hate Crime Laws

By Harmony Grant
May 8th, 2007

Last Thanksgiving, a tenured math professor at an Arizona community college sent out an email that could cost him his job. No, it didn’t contain the n-word. It didn’t criticize homosexual practices or point out that Democrats in Congress are trying to turn America into a police state. It was simply George Washington’s “Thanksgiving Day Proclamation of 1789,” with a link to its location on Pat Buchanan’s website, forwarded to fellow teachers in honor of Thanksgiving. Within weeks, the professor’s free-thinking and patriotic colleagues complained of harassment.

Come again? The instructors of America’s future leaders can’t handle the historic words of our greatest founding father or a link to a public leader’s thoughts on immigration!?

Washington’s “offensive” address describes the “duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor.” This political giant prayed publicly “that we may then unite in most humble offering our prayers and supplications to the Great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions, to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually…” and so on, in words that are no longer allowed at a high school graduation, on a navy shipdeck or, clearly, between full-grown faculty members at a community college!

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