Obama’s Executive Order and Salem

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J Climacus July 24, 2014

 

Richard Epstein recently wrote about President Obama’s new executive order refusing federal contracts to organizations that discriminate against gays and lesbians, including religious organizations. The order has already created a mini firestorm here on the North Shore of Boston.

 

It might surprise some readers to hear that in Wenham, Massachusetts, a little north of Salem, is a theologically conservative Christian institution of higher learning: Gordon College. You might think having a conservative college like this in true blue Massachusetts would make it a perpetual vortex of the culture wars, but Gordon is conservative in an old-style New England way, concentrating on making their community one of virtue in following Christ and