[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 20 (Tuesday, February 29, 2000)]
[Senate]
[Pages S953-S954]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 85--CONDEMNING THE DISCRIMINATORY 
              PRACTICES PREVALENT AT BOB JONES UNIVERSITY

  Mr. TORRICELLI (for himself, Mr. Reid, and Mr. Robb) submitted the 
following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
the Judiciary:

                            S. Con. Res. 85

       Whereas the Senate strongly rejects the practices of 
     racism, segregation, and intolerance based on religious 
     beliefs;
       Whereas the administration of Bob Jones University enforces 
     a segregationist policy by prohibiting interracial couples on 
     the Bob Jones University campus;
       Whereas officials of Bob Jones University routinely 
     disparage those of other religious faiths with intolerant and 
     derogatory remarks;
       Whereas officials of Bob Jones University have likened the 
     Pope of the Roman Catholic Church to a ``possessed demon'', 
     and branded Catholicism as a ``satanic system and religion of 
     the anti-Christ'';
       Whereas the Website of Bob Jones University greets visitors 
     with the University's belief that Catholicism and Mormonism 
     are ``cults''; and
       Whereas senior officials of Bob Jones University have made 
     openly racist remarks on many occasions regarding African 
     Americans and Asian Americans: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives 
     concurring), That Congress--
       (1) condemns practices, such as those prevalent at Bob 
     Jones University, that seek to discriminate against and 
     divide Americans on the basis of race, ethnicity, and 
     religion; and
       (2) strongly denounces individuals who seek to subvert the 
     American ideals of inclusion, equality, and social justice.

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