Greetings and welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Tuesday, May the 14th, 2024.

I'm Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison.

Jerry Seinfeld is one of the most popular comedians of our time, winning an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and two screen

actors Guild Awards, his sitcom Seinfeld was the highest rated show in the U.S. when its

final episode aired in 1998. His daughter graduated from Duke University, where his son is

currently enrolled as well. All of this made him an ideal speaker

for the school's commencement last Sunday, or so you might think. It turns out, Seinfeld committed

an unforgivable sin in much of American culture by supporting Israel after it was brutally

attacked by genocidal terrorists last October. He's Jewish.

Last December, he traveled to Tel Aviv to meet with families of hostages held by Hamas.

As a result, before he stood to speak at Duke, a group of students walked out.

Others booed him.

Here's a part of the story you may not know.

Duke has been affiliated with the Methodist Church since 1838.

In 1859, it adopted the motto, eruditio et religio, meaning education and religion.

Its first professional school was a school of religion known as Duke Divinity School. Harvard University

was founded by Puritans in 1636. Its motto is, in Christi Glorium, meaning for the glory

of Christ. Congregationalists founded Yale. Presbyterians founded Princeton. Baptists founded Brown, Evangelicals founded Dartmouth.

The Anglican minister and moral theologian Samuel Johnson was the first president of what became Columbia University in New York City.

That was then. This is now. Anti-Israel protests at Columbia have spread to scores of campuses and have led to thousands of arrests.

While just 7% of Americans are LGBTQ, students at Ivy League universities are identifying as non-straight at five times the general public.

More than a third at Princeton and more than a quarter at Yale and Harvard identify as LGBTQ.

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