The New Cornel West, Stephen Baldwin!

This is the email I sent to AFTAH in response to Peter's posting of a letter written by Stephen Baldwin:

If your university is not recommended by Stephen Baldwin, it's doing its job as an academic institution.  I know many parents dream of their children someday getting accepted by a Stephen Baldwin endorsed institute of higher learning.  It would be a real shame if some illustrious school would lose that level of support.  

This is Stephen's letter chastising Grove City College for, "making him sick to his stomach."

It has to do with one Grove City professor being a little more thoughtful than Stephen Baldwin, as shocking as that sounds.  Here is a letter of support from a student in support of Dr. Throckmorten, also posted on AFTAH.

And, one more link, here's me making fun of how "gnarly" and "awe-some" Stephen Baldwin made the CPAC conference for young people.  Totally rad, dude!  There was a rapper there.    

Here's the very brief back story.  Peter Labarbera has been criticizing a professor at a Christian college for not being sufficiently homo-hostile.  There's a bigger issue here in that even self-professed Christians are getting turned off by reducing faith to non-stop, targeted bigotry.  The letter written by the student at Grove City College is more eloquent than anything Peter has ever posted.  However, apparently he has pissed off the wrong people because the one and only Stephen Baldwin is now threatening to no longer recommend that college to high school student's.  And, when it comes to ANYTHING academic it is essential that aspiring undergraduates consult at least one Baldwin brother. 

So, I disagree with many things at Grove City and could probably have a healthy debate with the professor in question, Dr. Throckmorton.  However, I don't think any college, or any human for that matter, should be concerned with gaining the approval of a gay-porn obsessed "straight" "christian" "activist" and the influential former star of Fled. 

Note - Stephen Baldwin now signs his letters "Steve Baldwin".  I'm guessing this is an attempt to sound less Bio-dome-y. 

Comments

[Darrin O. Thomas]

Hi Gabe. Enjoyed the post. We need to find ways forward. But to do that we need to be willing to look for common ground...on both sides. I have always seen that willingness in what you write so, keep it up! i recently wrote a poem trying to convey this sentiment as well. i posted it here in case you wanted to take a look.

http://dtrane.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/level/

Take Care,
Darrin