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COLLEGE REVERSES DECISION, REHIRES FAMED DELTA FORCE HERO
Lt. Gen. Boykin had been dismissed over transgender- bathroom stance
Bob Unruh
In a defeat for LGBT activists demanding that girls bathrooms be open to boys who “identify” as girls, a private, all-male college in Virginia has decided to rehire American Delta Force hero Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin.
As WND reported, Boykin was dismissed from his teaching post at Hampden-Sydney College after the school received complaints about his humorous reaction to the Obama administration’s May 13 order to public schools to allow access to gender-segregated facilities based on a student’s “perceived” gender.
Boykin explained that when he joked that “the first man who goes in the restroom with my daughter will not have to worry about surgery,” the “LGBT community once again came after me, claiming that I was calling for violence against #transgender people.”
Boykin, who once commanded the Army’s elite Delta Force and currently is vice president of Family Research Council, explained his comment “was meant to be humor and not a call for violence, which everyone in my audience understood as humor.”
“When given the choice of standing alongside a decorated military hero or a bunch of militant LGBT activists – choose wisely. The leadership of Hampden-Sydney College learned that lesson the hard way,” he wrote.
“On May 19 I reported to you that the Virginia all-male college had chosen not to renew retired Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin’s contract – ending his stellar, nine-year career teaching leadership and ethics. … Less than six hours later, the college reversed its decision and offered the retired general a one-year contract.”
Boykin, a WND board member, told Starnes, “I would like to thank the leadership of Hampden-Sydney College for the courage they have demonstrated in reversing their decision and allowing me to remain a part of the Hampden-Sydney community.”
College officials told the columnist that LGBT activists had been in contact with the school, but they insisted it was not the “determining factor” in announcing Boykin no longer would teach there.
Spokesman Thomas Shomo told Starnes that Boykin is “outspoken” and has “controversial views.”
“For the record, forcing people to use the bathroom according to their God-given plumbing is not controversial. It’s common sense,” Starnes wrote.
In a Facebook post Thursday announcing Boykin’s return, Hampden Sydney said interim President Dennis Stevens is pleased that Boykin will be with the school for an additional year.
“At the end of the 2016-2017 academic year, the College will continue with its plan to restore the Wheat Professorship to short-term appointments in order to bring multiple perspectives on leadership to its students.”
Among the many advocating for Boykin during the fracas was former Republican Rep. Allen West.
He praised Boykin as “the epitome of an American Warrior … a founding member of the venerable U.S. Army Special Forces Operations Detachment (Delta) – Delta Force.”
“He’s served in multiple combat zones and given his all to include being part of Jimmy Carter’s failed Operation Desert One mission to rescue our Americans held hostage by the Iranians,” West said.
“Here’s my assertion: the nation’s 10th oldest college and one of two remaining men’s colleges in America just fired an American Warrior, war hero, a role model for all young men. And what’s most amazing and telling about America is that we cannot courts-martial a damn deserter like Bowe Bergdahl, yet we fire a distinguished decorated warrior because some slack-jawed cupcakes complain,” West charged.
“What LTG Boykin said is exactly what I feel as the dad of two daughters. It’s my responsibility to protect my girls and folks, if we have now come to a time in America where a man defending and protecting his daughters is a punishable crime – then our America is done!” West wrote.
West said the “radical gay agenda is spun out of control and LTG Boykin’s comment did not incite violence.”
“Let me clarify something, what about when President Obama talks about ‘punishing your political enemies’ or ‘don’t take a knife to a gun fight’ – where was the outcry about his violent rhetoric?”
Boykin said he was not calling for violence but was instead “referring to perverts who will use these policies to get into locker rooms with girls and women, and I object to that.”
At the time of Boykin’s dismissal, a ConservativeHQ commentary said: “Attempting to intimidate Jerry Boykin is obviously a fool’s errand. With a distinguished career in the military and public service behind him – in addition to commanding the Army’s elite Delta Force he also served as United States Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence – he long ago proved he is immune to intimidation.”
The article said Americans are the targets of “the far-left’s intimidation tactics.”
“What they want to do is intimidate moms and dads out in Real America; they want you to be afraid to oppose allowing men into the women’s restroom, locker room and shower and to sit down, shut up and accept their remaking of American society and culture because you’re afraid of losing your job,” the commentary said.
“And this battle is not and never has been about those few individuals in our society that have ‘transitioned’ from one sex to another. Courts and society have determined that people have the civil right to control their own bodies and appearance, thus changing one’s sexual appearance is allowed, if not universally embraced or recognized as a choice a mentally healthy person would make,” ConservativeHQ said.
“This battle is about the dangerous predators that will use this mandate to accept gender fluidity to enter any place where a woman has the right to expect privacy and security,” it continued.
“This is not about what happened to Gen. Jerry Boykin at one small college in Virginia. The real issue is stopping the insanity that endangers the women and girls that we care about in our lives and standing up to the attempts to normalize the abnormal through the vicious imposition of political correctness in speech and thought.”
Other prominent leaders have been given a pass by activists and media when they “joke” about killing people.
Obama said in a 2010 speech: “The Jonas Brothers are here. They’re out there somewhere. Sasha and Malia are huge fans. But, boys, don’t get any ideas. I have two words for you — predator drones. You will never see it coming. You think I’m joking.”
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Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/05/college-reverses-decision-rehires-famed-delta-force-hero/#EAOMgrJRxmQ59TjW.99My comments: The decision to rehire General Boykin was probably the result of Alumni of the College saying they would not support the College Financially unless Boykin was rehired. This is probably money talking and not Morality.
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