Now I have no dog in this fight–I’m a Rose-Hulman guy married to a Purdue grad with parents and in-laws who attended Purdue. I couldn’t care less about what IU does–though I did think that Knight should have been charged with battery on more than one occasion.

But the argument for whether or not a particular person should be honored should stand on its own merits and not on the merits of another. Evaluating a man is a complicated endeavor since none of us are perfect.

the Bible never held up what Lot did as morally right.

Taken a look at 2 Peter 2 lately? Lot is described as a righteous man.

Lot was saved not because of his own morality, but because of Abraham’s.

Abraham married his father’s daughter.

If this incestuous behavior was good enough to not only save himself, but to save Lot, then incest is morally correct, both then and now?

A century ago, many women were married and having babies at 13 and 14 years of age. These days, we send guys to prison for screwing girls that young.

In the 1800s, Mark Twain was considered a dangerous radical because books like Huckleberry Finn called slavery evil. These days, Huckleberry Finn is being removed from libraries because it’s considered racially offensive.

In 1940, they lynched blacks in Marion, Indiana for raping a white girl – something that, upon further examination, turned out not to have happened. A couple of years later, Ora Wildermuth was suggesting that segregation was a good thing. Well, if keeps innocent men from being lynched, I’d have to agree with Wildermuth.

In the 1960s, Sammy Davis couldn’t take his wife, Mae Britt, with him when he was on tour, because in about 75% of the country, they couldn’t legally marry, and innkeepers would be arrested for renting a room to the couple.

Samson had seven hundred wives, and three hundred concubines. As your preacher if this is morally OK by today’s standards.

The bible holds high the example of a man who, haven given shelter to guests, has a mob gather outside his door. Rather than turn over his guests to the mob, he passes his daughters to the crowd to have sex with. Ask your wife if this is moral behavior by today’s standards.

Moral standards do change.

If the passage of 20 years makes something irrelevant, then Ora Wildermuth’s statements are doubly irrelevant.

George Washington was a slave owner. I suppose we ought to remove his picture from our postage stamps, coins and currency, and rename our nation’s capital….

You mention a “prestigious state university”. I thought you were talking about IU. They have a basketball team, a Calder sculpture, and the Kinsey report – but most people aren’t aware that they have the latter two, and I’m not sure how much prestige there is in a chair being hurled across the floor.

As to the other issue a prestigious state university should not honor a notorious racist.