President Gene Nichol recently decided to remove the cross from the Wren Chapel altar at William and Mary. It is but one reason why the incurably Christ-o-phobic administrator should be removed from his position at the prestigious institution of higher learning. Another reason is the secretive fashion in which he made the decision – one that was free from the input of students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
During the Great Depression, Bruton Parish Church gave its 2-foot tall gold altar cross to William and Mary. It was supposed to be displayed behind the Wren Chapel altar. When Gene Nichol was inaugurated as the 26th President of the College of William & Mary it was still on display.
But, then, in October of 2006 an administrator at William & Mary sent an email to Wren Building volunteer student tour guides. The brief email noted that the cross had been removed. Later that month, President Nichol confirmed his cross removal order in an email message to all students.
The following month, Nichol reiterated his reasons for directing the cross to be stored away and put on display only during appropriate religious services. Then, just a few days before Christmas, Nichol announced he was amending his decision – urging that the cross be displayed on Sundays only. This would mean that the Cross would remain hidden in a storage room six days of the week. In an effort to cover his backside, Nichol commissioned a plaque to be placed in the Chapel mentioning the space’s Christian and Anglican history.
Prior to President Nichol’s arrival, a policy was already in place that helped solve any problem that the display of the Cross might cause for any group or individual using the Wren Chapel. They would simply ask that the Wren Cross be removed for the duration of their event. In fact, over the course of the year preceding the order, about 15 to 20% of wedding celebrations occurred in the Chapel with the Wren Cross removed.
Although websites like http://www.SaveTheWrenCross.org have done a good job of exposing the history of the current controversy, some facts have been omitted. These accounts have incorrectly suggested that President Nichol has acted alone out of some individual animosity towards Christianity. That is unfair because it fails to mention the probable role of his wife Glenn George, a professor at William and Mary School of Law.
Glenn George was named as University Counsel at UNC-Chapel Hill on December 7th, 2002. Just three days later, a Jihad was launched against religious organizations at that school. Thirteen letters were written to religious groups – twelve to Christian groups – threatening to de-fund them and kick them off campus.
These threats were issued because the groups did not allow membership and voting privileges to students hostile to their religious views. There was also a mandate that the groups adopt policies that allow all students to hold office in the religious groups they oppose.
The policy was so absurd that it should not have required a lawsuit to correct. But it did.
After a religious group filed suit, a federal judge issued an injunction against UNC that caused the policy to be amended. Eventually, Glenn George and her husband Gene Nichols – then the Dean of UNC School of Law – moved on to William and Mary. And they took their penchant for harassing Christians with them.
So, remember to sign the petition urging Nichol’s Christ-o-phobic policy to be fully overturned. Then, hopefully, another petition will be initiated with the goal of firing both Gene Nichols and his wife. They, not the Cross of Christ, are the offensive symbols that need to be removed from the campus of William and Mary.
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Mike S. Adams was born in Columbus, Mississippi on October 30, 1964. While a student at Clear Lake High School in Houston, TX, his team won the state 5A soccer championship. Mike Adams graduated from C.L.H.S. in 1983 with a 1.8 GPA. Mike Adams was ranked 734 among a class of 740, largely as a result of flunking English all four years of high school. After obtaining an Associate's degree in psychology from San Jacinto College, Mike Adams moved on to Mississippi State University where he joined the Sigma Chi Fraternity. While living in the fraternity house, his GPA rose to 3.4, allowing him to finish his B.A., and then to pursue a Master's in Psychology. In 1990, Mike Adams turned down a chance to pursue a PhD in psychology from the University of Georgia, opting instead to remain at Mississippi State to study Sociology/Criminology. This decision was made entirely on the basis of his reluctance to quit his night job as member of a musical duo. Playing music in bars and at fraternity parties and weddings financed his education. Mike Adams also played for free beer.
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Upon getting his doctorate in 1993, Adams, then an atheist and a Democrat, was hired by UNC-Wilmington to teach in the criminal justice program. A few years later, Adams abandoned his atheism and also became a Republican. He also nearly abandoned teaching when he took a one-year leave of absence to study law at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1998. After returning to teach at UNC-Wilmington, Adams won the Faculty Member of the Year award (issued by the Office of the Dean of Students) for the second time in 2000.
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After his involvement in a well publicized free speech controversy in the wake of the 911 terror attacks, Adams became a vocal critic of the diversity movement in academia. After making appearances on shows like Hannity and Colmes, the O'Reilly Factor, and Scarborough Country, Adams was asked to write a column for Townhall.com.
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Today Mike Adams enjoys the privilege of expressing himself both as a teacher and a writer. Mike Adams is also an avid hunter and reader of classic literature. Mike Adams published his first book, Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel, in 2004. His second book, Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts "Womyn" On Campus, was published in 2008.
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