Serious arguments about Republicans are rare at Liberty. In 1980, Ronald Reagan visited a week before the presidential election to voice his support for prayer in public schools (President George H.W. Bush did the same in a 1990 visit). It’s where Senator John McCain came in 2006 to make peace with evangelical leaders ahead of his run for the presidency in 2008. It’s where Mitt Romney reaffirmed his belief in traditional marriage the same week President Barack Obama announced his own support of same-sex marriage in May 2012.
Since its founding, the twin cornerstones of Liberty University have been its indivisible commitments to the basic tenets of Christianity and conservative politics. And now, for the first time, the world’s largest Christian university is grappling with whether and how it’s possible to go about those commitments if they’re divorced from each other.
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