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While Louisiana College Burns: Recent Trustee Rescinds Endorsement of Joe Aguillard

Joshua —  February 21, 2013 — 2 Comments

Former Louisiana College Board of Trustee member (2008-2013), former pastor at First Baptist Church Moss Bluff, and my father-in-law, Shawn Thomas, recently posted this statement publicly on his Facebook wall. It is my hope that all the men who served with him on the L.C. Board will seriously consider his words.

Shawn Thomas Louisiana College President Joe Aguillard

In a comment, Thomas added:

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Please pray for Chairman Gene Lee and the entire Louisiana College Board of Trustees as they go into an emergency meeting on Monday. May God be glorified.

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  • Joshua

    I pray that God strengthens your father-in-law during these times. It means a lot that he is virtuous to stand ground to his convictions.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jamesreastwood James Eastwood

    I’m saddened that this campaign of intimidation is continuing, but I’m not at all surprised. What does surprise me is that those closely connected with the college are just now acknowledging the severity of the situation. Dr. Aguillard has been consolidating power and silencing dissent since before he was appointed president — disbanding the student newspaper, rewriting faculty statements of faith and retirement policies to force out professors, and telling the Student Government Association that, as a constitutional guarantee, “freedom of speech doesn’t apply” at a private institution like LC.

    It seems that the only reason this latest round of “non-renewals” and blocked websites has generated so much furor is that it’s been directed at people closer to the fundamental core of Baptist doctrine, and therefore harder to marginalize. Louisiana Baptists were willing to overlook the blatant abuses of power when they were directed at “liberals” who didn’t ascribe to strict biblical inerrancy or who weren’t willing to swear off alcohol, but now that they’re coming for Calvinists it’s time to stand against injustice. I only hope that, after several rounds of purges, there are enough dissenting voices left in the college and the convention to put an end to the travesty being carried out in the name of “defending the faith.”