Conservative Brigham Young Students Protest Cheney Speech: "This Is A Morally Dubious Man"

[kpete]

PROVO, Utah, April 10 — The invitation extended to Vice President Dick Cheney to be the commencement speaker at Brigham Young University has set off a rare, continuing protest at the Mormon university, one of the nation’s most conservative.

Some of the faculty and the 28,000 undergraduate and graduate students, who are overwhelmingly Republican, have expressed concern about the Bush administration’s support for the war in Iraq and other policies, but most of the current protest has focused on Mr. Cheney’s integrity, character and behavior. Several students said, for example, that they were appalled at Mr. Cheney’s use of an expletive on the Senate floor in a June 2004 exchange with Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont.

“The problem is this is a morally dubious man,” said Andrew Christensen, a 22-year-old Republican from Salt Lake City. “It’s challenging the morality and integrity of this institution.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/us/11byu.html?ex=1333944000&en=7457df67acda1dbb&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

[hobbit709]

1. I have absolutely no doubt about his morals

He has NONE TO SPEAK OF

[demnan]

2. Good for them

I think Mormons get a bad rap sometimes. We have to remember that Harry Reid is a Mormon too.

[WI_DEM]

5. I don't know if he's a Mormon but the Mayor of SLC is one of the most progressive

in the country--Rocky Anderson.

[oldtime dfl_er]

3. I'm glad they're responding to the challenge

Good for them. Hope they kick his sorry ass out of Utah and back to his only safe haven: the Rush Limbaugh show.

[Jacobin]

4. That's the nicest possible way to refer to this bloodsucking warmnger

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. conservative Christians are waking up

and realizing the truth of the phrase: "By their works will you know them"

[enid602]

7. Cheney

Let's just hope that Cheney has Regent as a back-up.

[Kurovski]

8. K&R. (nt)

[judaspriestess]

9. these protestors better be careful since

cheney is a C.H.U.D. he may get hungry