Making it Official

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (July 22) -- The request seemed simple enough to the Rev. Hershael W. York, then the president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention. He asked Georgetown College, a small Baptist liberal arts institution here, to consider hiring for its religion department someone who would teach a literal interpretation of the Bible.

But to William H. Crouch Jr., the president of Georgetown, it was among the last straws...

Dr. Crouch and his trustees decided it was time to end the college’s 63-year affiliation with the religious denomination. “From my point of view, it was about academic freedom,’’ Dr. Crouch said. “I sat for 25 years and watched my denomination become much more narrow and, in terms of education, much more interested in indoctrination.’’
http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/feeling-strains-baptist-colleges-cut/20060722172309990006?ncid=NWS00010000000001

Fine. I think it is Dr. Crouch who is too "narrow" in his thinking to allow a literalist in his religion department, which suggests strongly just who, in fact, is interested in indoctrination.

Georgetown College no doubt broke with the Baptists, and with faith for that matter, years ago. This latest chapter simply makes it official.