Augsburg College, in Minneapolis, is my alma mater.
Founded in the 1870s, Augsburg was for most of its early history the center of Free Lutheranism, an effort to build a pietist Lutheran church movement exercising a congregational form of church government. These principles were abandoned entirely when the Lutheran Free Church entered a merger with other Lutheran bodies in 1962. The small rabble of churches who refused to go along with the merger began the Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, for which I work.
The point of all this is that, in spite of its historical heritage, Augsburg today is just another mainline Lutheran school, indistinguishable, except by geography, from all the other mainline Lutheran schools.
Which explains this story, in which we see contemporary academic standards of tolerance and the free exercise of thought demonstrated for all.
Tip: Power Line.
I guess now we know why Republicans are for gun ownership.
So, Lars, how’s the vote count up there coming? Got any excess votes stashed away in your trunk?
I’m sure the Democrats are manufacturing fresh Franken ballots as we speak.
That Augsburg … that’s an ELCA college, isn’t it?
Hush! That’s the Name That Must Never Be Spoken.
But yes.
To top it off, I just got the Augsburg alumni magazine. On the cover was a picture of “politically active” students, with a girl wearing a Republican National Convention ID tag shown front and center, between a Democrat and an I-don’t-know-what.
Rank hypocrisy.
Was the Democrat to the left of the Republican?
To her left. Our right.