"The King’s College president Dinesh D’Souza now faces his board’s likely questions about his relationship to a woman not his wife"

If there was a history to the relationship of World Magazine and D’Souza, it certainly looks like World Magazine was vindicated. The problem is that it took someone with a pre-existing history with D’Souza to get done what should have been done in the first place. I read the comments on World Magazine that spoke of its having an axe to grind with D’Souza. Well, why didn’t the people who DIDN’T have problems with D’Souza raise this issue? The way that this played out is far more positive for World Magazine and Olasky than it is for people who had better relationships and opinions of D’Souza, knew about this situation and kept silent, refusing to do the right thing. If one is going to raise the issue that World Magazine had some sort of animus or bias against D’Souza, then would it have been better had World Magazine not exposed this at all, and things continued to go on as they had been? If so, how is that any different from Bill Clinton claiming that the real issue wasn’t his own behavior, but the hateful conservatives attempting to destroy him because they opposed his administration and agenda? (Even if your position is that D’Souza didn’t do what Clinton did, D’Souza is being held to a higher standard.)

And I will lay my cards on the table … I agree with Olasky. Kings College is a Protestant institution. D’Souza has never renounced Roman Catholicism. He was able to assent to King’s College’s creed, but only because the creed doesn’t contain anything that would explicitly preclude most Catholics. Like most modern evangelicals Olasky has some degree of sympathy for ecumenism, but having a guy who is straddling the fence between Catholicism and Protestantism because it is convenient as president of a conservative evangelical college simply should not be done.

Also, there is the issue of his qualifications, which are zero. D’Souza possesses a B.A> in English. That is the entirety of his educational credentials. No advanced degrees at all, and nothing in religion, theology, divinity … anything. And D’Souza has no background in professional ministry … not a pastor, missionary, denominational leader or anything else. He is a writer, Reagan staffer and public policy institute analyst. He was unqualified to be an instructor (other than maybe in politics, English or literature/writing) at Kings College, or pretty much any other college for that matter (one needs a master’s degree to be so much as a part time math instructor at a community college!) let alone its president.

Liking D’Souza because he is excellent at articulating conservative views is one thing. But supporting him as president of a Protestant evangelical college that trains pastors and missionaries is another. All Olasky did was finally force King’s College to undo their terrible decision of hiring him in the first place.

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