Officials at a US Christian college have launched an investigation after a cardboard effigy of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was hung from a tree, a statement said Wednesday.
George Fox University, in Newberg, Oregon, said in a statement on its website that the cutout of Obama was found hanging from a tree on campus early Tuesday morning before being removed by staff.
A sign reading "Act Six reject" was taped to the cutout. Act Six is a scholarship program run by the college granted to 10 student leaders from urban Portland. Most of the students currently benefiting from the program are ethnic minorities, the statement said.
To its credit, George Fox University has issued a variety of statements from the university's president, board of trustees, and student government, as well as an apology to Barack Obama.
But if we're going to talk about Islamic terrorism and how religion drives people to commit crimes against humanity, it's high time in this country that we started looking at terrorism committed by so-called Christians. Whether it's hanging black presidential candidates in effigy or bombing abortion clinics, discussion of Christian terrorism is taboo in this country. This country's religiosity, given its secular roots, is a bafflement, but no religion that regards itself as the One True Way is immune from being used as an excuse for terrorism. It's time Christianity stopped getting a free pass.
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