[Peace-discuss] mckinley and the cia

[C. G. Estabrook]

I think you should present this remark to the chief responsible persons at
McKinley, if you haven't already done so, and see how they explain
themselves. It certainly seems that they have some explaining to do. --CGE

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 rohloff at uiuc.edu wrote:

> Although I'm not a big fan of 'progressive' groups fighting with each
> other--and at the risk of starting another 'theological' discussion--I
> can't help but remark:
> 
> I'm not terribly suprised to see CIA recruiting efforts on our campus,
> and it doesn't bother me so much. However, I am very suprised to see
> such an event hosted at McKinley, which has always been very fond of
> tooting its own horn as the most progressive liberal protestant church
> in town.
> 
> In the past, McKinley has been known to reject on the grounds of
> ideological difference space-use requests from (relatively moderate)
> evangelical campus groups looking for places to hold Bible studies.
> 
> Does it than follow that McKinley is more ideologically aligned with
> the CIA than with, say, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship? If so,
> perhaps I should stop calling myself a liberal Protestant ;-)
> 
> Peter
>