What was Wash U thinking? With Phyllis Schlafly’s philosphy, women would not be encouraged to go to a higher learning institute, such as Wash U.
This is degrading the honorary degree. It’ll be worthless now.

Send a protest email to
wrighton@wustl.edu

Here’s one of Phyllis Schlafly’s quotes:
“The outburst by feminist professors simply confirms the stereotype . that they are too emotional to handle intellectual or scientific debate.”

Phyllis Schlafly does not deserve an Honorary Degree

WASHU could burn to the ground tomorrow and I wouldn’t shed a tear.

Azz-kissing the liberal elites in this town does not make one sophisticated, despite what ‘Average Jane’ thinks.

Having no respect for traditional values does not make one ‘progressive’. It makes one an intolerant punk.

And so once again we see the liberal ‘pot’ calling a conservative ‘kettle’ black.

Typical.

The granting of an honorary degree really shows me nothing. It’s just a piece of paper. The pathetic response by liberal law professors and their students shows me alot.

These liberal Wash U. professors and students contempt for Mrs. Schafly ends right before the last zero on Mrs. Schafly’s endowment and grant checks. Or any one elses views they find repulsive. I doubt they will ever advocate the return of one single dime……

Dogs sometimes bark at the hands that feed them, but they rarely ever bite them off! I think that’s Robert Bork’s view of law school professors. The man is a genius. Too bad Wash U won’t hire him, having him on staff would definitely put the “elite” back in that institution. Just having him use the bathroom there would bring it up a notch.

Let’s hope our “pro-life” Phyllis Schafly finds time during her acceptance speech to congratulate the university for the procurement process used to obtain donated blastocysts to research somatic stem-cells SCNT from human embryos….

Wash U - congratulations on awarding the honerary degree to someone who has done something in her life, besides whine.

This woman, from a “life” perspective, has accomplished an awful lot. And for those of you who think she’s anti-woman, I think your wrong. I think she very progressive, but she wants basic core attributes to prevail. there’s nothing wrong with that in this day and age of instant dummified gratification and stupidification.

I think many of her comments have been targeted by the drive-by media and greatly taken out of context by the liberal dumkauffs.

Get a life whiners.

I have to wonder, would we hear the plaintive cry of a wounded beast from Washington University students, faculty and alumnae if Hugo Chavez or Kim Jung Il was awarded an honorary degree?

Paa..lease. Is that the best you got Sage.
You left out Bin Laden.

Critics of Washington U’s action do well to bear in mind that a well rounded education requires the discussion and debate of ALL points of view. That’s what a liberal arts education demands.

Yes, you MUST provide room for all sorts of views, progressive or not. Sometimes, you have to even honor those who have become national icons of certain viewpoints not approved of by the drab and shabby Maoist Feminists that find their only refuge in ivory towers! Think about it, how fun would it be if the only honoray degrees went to the Catherine MacKinnons or Bella Abzugs of this world!?

Patricus…Good point. When will Washington University honor Nancy Keenan, President of NARAL, for protecting and defending the American values of freedom and privacy.

Honoring Phyllis Schlafly is appropriate and sensible since she chose to remind people that there are some things that should not be embraced openly or supported by law. Traditional conservative views have made America into a great and influential world power, but now since many of us are choosing to liberally embrace everything without first considering the consequences. We now find ourselves on a downward spiral. Look at what things have devolved towards–behaviors that are unnatural are now being granted rights of protection through our legal system, and those thinks that are natural are now becoming a pariah in our society. There’s a price to pay for treading down the wrong path.

Phyllis Schlafly and others like here have chosen to be a voice for sound reason, good moral choices and sensible reasoning. Through the years Phyllis has taken a stand on things that impacted this nation in beneficial ways, so Washington University’s idea to honor her is expedient and honorable. It’s a shame that so many fail to grasp how honorable a person Phyllis is and how she has helped to encourage a mutual respect between men and women as being necessary for the future of America.

When is she supposed to be awarded this honorary degree? I figure two weeks after that the whiners will pull their collective panties out of their collective rear-ends and MOVE ON!
Message to all the whiners out there: No one cares. No one, other than you, gives a rats rear end about Wash U giving her the piece of paper, and no one, other than you, gives a rats rear end about your whining about it.

If the actions of your alma matter offend you THAT much, take your piece of paper off the wall and throw it away, just stop whining about it.

Yeah, they’ve dropped a few rungs according to you. If it would have been I’m-a-nut-job giving a speech, you’d probably be stating freedom of speech and the rungs would have been raised. If you don’t agree with it, freedom of speech doesn’t exist.

I find myself in rare agreement with noster confusus. Who really cares? The only voice in this matter that counts are the alumnae and financial supporters. It is their shame to shoulder. If Washington University wishes to honor and claim as one of it’s own Phyllis Schlafly, that’s just fine with me. They deserve one another. Schlafly and Wash U have at least one trait in common. Each has an enormously inflated ego and a sense of self importance that just does not translate to the real world.

Hooray for Washington University and Phyllis Schlafly! Backward attitudes to some people (like Ladue) are progressive attributes to others. College elitists who pride themselves as being the storehouse of all knowledge and wisdom seldom give any credibility to those who oppose their philosophy. I suspect that if the likes of Michael Moore or Louis Farakan were awarded honorary doctors, they would be on the front steps cheering them on. My biggest problem with the university is the president’s desire to placate those who oppose this honor. As a distinguished alumnus who has had a noticeable impact on this country, I say, “More power to her.”

Just a thought…
was wondering if ‘don-the-sage’, ‘sic vicious’ or ‘jiffygeo’ would be so condescending and agreeable to washington university’s choice if wash u. had picked, oh, say…
Michael Moore or Louis Farakan or the Rev. Wright
to bestow an honorary degree to?
I can hear the howls of protest from maryland heights all the way to sic’s basement bedroom now…

I pretty much despise the three aforementioned characters. Washu could give them each a dozen honorary degrees and it wouldn’t make me a darn bit of difference and I can guarantee I wouldn’t be protesting.

Wash U might not owe her another degree, but any St. Louis restaurant or bar that currently allows smoking owes her a free dinner for killing Odenwald’s smoking ban back in 2006.

http://keepstlouisfree.blogspot.com/2008/05/phyllis-schlafly-killed-odenwalds-2006.html

It seems clear to me that the law school needs fumigation and remodeling. It has termites, boring bees, ticks and fleas. They are sitting on the roof fiddling while their law school is burning.

I suggest that after the fumigation and remodeling that the University sets a higher standard for professors that are hired in the future. No University should carry the baggage that the Law Professors have.

Give the woman her Honorary degree, and then get control of the law school.

Yes, by bestowing this degree to an accomplished mother and professional the University is tarnishing its reputation as a farm for far left wing radicals.

The AverageJane’s and Unionist Garry certainly would be upset at this lack of balance the University is showing. They do not want alternate viewpoints to be heard. They want you to drink the Koolade and push all original thought aside.

Now, where is the outrage at having Chris Matthews be the commencement speaker?

It is interesting that liberals feel that “love and tolerance are missing in the radical right” , however they have no problem demonstarting a lack of love and tolerance when it comes to making comments about Phyllis Schlafly. I guess she doesn’t have a right to disagree with them but they have right to disagree with her. It seems to me that both the left & right have a problem with understanding “Love” and both are clearly intolerant of the other.

Did you see her at the ceremony? OMG - she looks like a cadaver. Are we sure all those folks who turned their backs are among the horrible, god-hating, whiner Liberals? Maybe they just couldn’t stand the sight of her rotting flesh.

Someone who knows Karen should repeatedly slap both her hands for typing such a vile comment. Her comment is a lie and anonymous posts like hers make these blogs trashy.

What a disappointing example of the state of the country. This large group of privileged students of an elite university can find nothing better to complain about than the character of a person receiving an honorary degree.

Are they unaware that the world has larger problems? Do they plan on contributing to a smug, vapid protest against a lady of whom they probably hadn’t heard until recently? And after all is over, will they take their degrees and go out and try to get rich?

We are certainly educating the wrong people, or rather failing to educate.

I have never known Phyllis Schlafly to offer anything near the idea of “intellectual debate.” The University decided to honor willful ignorance as a role model.

Laurence,

You’re absolutely correct. What right does a major academic institution have in supporting free speech? Why hasn’t Wash U’s speech police been tasked to deal with such an outrage?

The next thing you know, Rush Limbaugh will be selling “Operation Chaos” T-shirts in the Quadrangle!

“All we ask: Be kind; be honest; be civil; discuss issues, not personalities.”

After nearly a day, post #22 is still up. Why does Karen get to be mean but Jamie asks the rest of us to be nice?

Dwayne, your comments deliver PERFECTLY an explanation of the problem…

in spite of the fact that homosexuality is NOT a behavior, and that every credible scientific, medical, and mental health authority has confirmed that it’s perfectly natural and normal for some people to be gay, the vicious bigoted lie that it’s “unnatural behavior” is spewed.
And it’s not being rewarded, we’re only calling for the simple American principle of equality to be honored.

The dispicable homophobia and bigotry of Phyllis Schlafly and the radical right ignore facts, ignore science, and ignore what America and decent people stand for. She should not be honored by any educational institution. Her hate is not American, it is not academic, and it is not Christian.