Christians revolt: Students at this top evangelical university are demanding Pence step down as commencement speaker — and suggesting Buttigieg deliver the address instead

Mike Pence and Pete Buttigieg

Taylor University is one of America’s oldest, private, evangelical colleges. In 2017 the Indiana-based university was ranked first among 94 midwestern schools. Its motto, “Lux et Fides,” means, “Light and Faith.”

But it is Vice President Mike Pence‘s undying faith in President Donald Trump that has led the 2019 graduating class to demand the school rescind its invitation to Pence to deliver the commencement address.

“Inviting Vice President Mike Pence to Taylor University makes our alumni, faculty, staff and current students complicit in the Trump Administration’s policies, which we believe are not consistent with an ethic of love,” the students and thier supporters say via a Change.org petition, as Newsweek reports.

In just a few hours the petition has earned hundreds of signatures.

Many might think, given Pence was the governor of Indiana – where Taylor University is located – that the invitation might not cause concern.

They would be wrong.

Here’s a sampling from some of those who signed the petition, explaining why:

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1 Comment

sam crespi on Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 1:51 pm

Not a one-off if you consider the media reports over the last 5-8 years of evangelical congregations losing people; especially young people. You and I have both been reading about for some time. That said, don’t recall it happening at a evangelical college.

sam crespi on Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 1:51 pm

Not a one-off if you consider the media reports over the last 5-8 years of evangelical congregations losing people; especially young people. You and I have both been reading about for some time. That said, don’t recall it happening at a evangelical college.