[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 20 (Tuesday, February 29, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H518]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  CONDEMNING RELIGIOUS AND RACIAL INTOLERANCE AT BOB JONES UNIVERSITY

  (Mr. CROWLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CROWLEY. Madam Speaker, I come to the floor today to denounce Bob 
Jones University, an institution of higher learning, for preaching 
hatred and practicing racism, religious intolerance, and segregation.
  Today, along with the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers), I am 
introducing a resolution condemning the discriminatory practices 
prevalent at Bob Jones University. Bob Jones University espouses hate-
filled, racist and anti-Catholic views upon its students.
  While officials there say they are not anti-Catholic and they do not 
preach anything other than what is in the Bible, their own online 
magazine calls Catholicism ``a satanic counterfeit,'' and says, 
``Papists are doing the work of the devil.''
  The University states that it is their First Amendment right to speak 
their beliefs. I support the First Amendment, but I do not support 
using a school to indoctrinate hate, segregation, and intolerance into 
today's youth.
  We have seen, all too often in the past year, the results of hate: a 
school shooting targeted at a prayer group in Paducah, Kentucky; the 
shooting at a Jewish daycare center; the race-targeted killings in 
Illinois.
  Hate propaganda may be free speech, but it must not be sanctioned by 
this body. We must loudly denounce it. As a Nation, we have fought too 
hard and come too far not to end discrimination and bigotry based on 
race and religion.

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