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Wheaton College apologized to a eliminated Facebook post that asks for sentences For Russ Vought After receiving an intense online reaction.
On Friday, the University of Illinois published his congratulations to Vought for being confirmed as director of the Office of Management and Budget (WBO) after a vote of the Senate 53-47.
“Wheaton College congratulations and pray for the 1998 graduate Russell Vought regarding his senatorial confirmation to serve as director of the White House of the Office of Administration and Budget!” The publication said, with a photo of Vought.
However, the publication was deleted later on Saturday and replaced by a new Explaining the situation.
The nominee of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, for the director of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, was confirmed by the Senate on Friday. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty images)
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“On Friday, Wheaton College published a congratulation and a call to prayer for a student who received confirmation to a White House post. Recognition and prayer is something we would normally do for any graduate that would reach that level of government. Without However, the political politician surrounds the appointment led to a significant concern expressed online.
It was also linked to Institutional statements by Christian School which Wheaton College emphasized was a “deliberately non -partisan institution.”
“With regard to electoral policy, Wheaton College is a deliberately non -partisan institution. This is both for missionary and legal reasons. Within the evangelical community, both nationally and internationally, we cover a spectrum of political perspectives,” Read in the statement. “The moral commitments of the University about the holiness of life, human sexuality, ethnic diversity, racial unity, justice, poverty and administration cross with politics in a complex, not simplistic, especially in a system Bipartisan.
Wheaton College faced more online reaction after apologizing for his Facebook publication about Vought. (To the Drago)
In a statement to Fox News DigitalWheaton College replied: “The publication on social networks led to more than 1,000 hostile comments, mainly incendiary and non -Christian comments about Mr. Vought, in just a few hours. It was not our intention to embroider the University or Mr. VOUGHT In a political policy discussion or dispute.
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“Apparently, @wheatoncollege is not happy with its graduates that reach one of the most powerful positions of the United States government unless they are progressive,” wrote Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee.
Conservative Podcast presenter Allie Beth Stuckey published: “Wheaton is the epitome of the ‘soft medium’, the group of evangelicals without thorns that believe that their ‘Nuance’ and ‘Winsomeness’ are appropriate replacements for greater clarity and courage. Absolutely shameful exhibition of cowardice. “
“Incredibly weak and shameful,” wrote the senior columnist of Townhall.com, Spencer Brown.
The founder of the Bahnsen group, David Bahnsen, wrote: “This is the absolutely more unfortunate and shameful imaginable thing. First, you did not make a political support: he congratulated a former student for receiving an important appointment and said you would pray for him .
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Vought responded to the news in a blunt comment on Saturday.
“SAD!” Vought wrote.
