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?