Speaking of bad television, I just caught a few minutes of Larry King’s interview with Bob Jones III, president of Bob Jones University, the school that’s recently been in the press because of its policy restricting interracial dating among its students. Jones insists that the policy itself is unimportant, rarely even mentioned on campus, and doesn’t deserve the national attention it has received. The policy exists, he says, not to promote bigotry but resistance to a one-world government, new world order. Frankly, I think I liked it better when I thought he was just a racist.

The policy has, apparently, been dropped, but that unsettling world-view is still in place, judging from the University’s official response:

Does the University believe that those who choose interracial marriage do so out of rebellion against God? No. It does believe, however, that often the promoters of it do so out of antagonism toward God because they are often the same entities that promote homosexuality, abortion, and other forms of social radicalism.

Bob Jones University’s policy regarding interracial dating was more of an opposition to the rebellious and defiant antichrist spirit of the promoters of one-worldism than to interracial dating itself. Many who date and marry interracially are just as opposed to one-worldism and the spirit of Antichrist as we are.