Pro-Family Leader Schlafly Insulted in Person by University

From Saint Louis Today, Phyllis Schlafly was honored at Washington University last week with an honorary doctorate of humane letters.

Schlafly, a columnist and founder of Eagle Forum, has worked tirelessly for decades the health of American families and the well being of this nation. Yet this is how she was treated:

Some applauded while Schlafly was hooded. But about a third of the graduating students draped in the school’s green and black robes turned their backs to her, along with some faculty members sitting on the stage behind her. Many family members in the audience also took part.

Three faculty members made the extra point of walking off the stage and then turning their backs from the audience.

A reaction like this might be appropriate if a university had invited or honored someone like, say Saddam Hussein, or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or Kim Jong-Il or the leader of some terrorist group. Yet somehow I doubt that there would be the slightest bit of angst over such a guest at this school.

I had the honor of meeting Schlafly last October in Washington D.C. She is such a nice lady, and knowing that makes this childish act by these children (both students and faculty who never grew up) seem all the more pathetic.

It may sound as if I'm trying to be sensational when I speak fearfully about the demise of our culture and our nation, but I'm really not. When we have colleges that on one hand applaud anti-Americanism and people who vehemently hate our country, and on the other hand treat a patriot who has worked so hard for the good of our country like this, I cannot help but fear that we aren't going to make it much longer.

A nation of people who so loathe what is good and right, a people that so loathes others who work for the health of our society, a people that so loathes its own origins and its own self...how can a people like that survive for more than a handful of generations?