Sunday, October 28, 2007
Enough is Enough?
Even some Evangelicals are getting tired of the religious-political right.
- Fox, who is 47, said he saw some impatient shuffling in the pews, but he was stunned that the church’s lay leaders had turned on him. “They said they were tired of hearing about abortion 52 weeks a year, hearing about all this political stuff!” he told me on a recent Sunday afternoon. “And these were deacons of the church!”
In a related set of circumstances, Oral Roberts tries to rescue his shambles of an organization.
- On Wednesday, the head regent at Oral Roberts University announced that the school is an astonishing $52.5 million in debt. This news arrived just three weeks after the revelation of a wrongful termination suit filed against the school by three former professors who claim that they were fired after providing the school's Board of Regents with a report detailing moral and ethical lapses by Oral's son Richard, who had inherited the school's presidency from his father, and Richard's wife Lindsay. Among the allegations: the Roberts had remodeled their home eleven times in 14 years with University money, that they bankrolled one of their daughters' $29,411 trip to the Bahamas with school funds and that Lindsay Roberts had spent the night in an O.R.U. guest-house with an underage male nine times.
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