LINK – Nothing new here…you’re probably just wondering where. It’s at the College of William and Mary in VA this time around.

They clash, though, over what to do with an unadorned, 18-inch brass cross that had been displayed on the altar since about 1940.

Nichol ordered the cross removed in October to make the chapel more welcoming to students of all faiths. Previously, the cross could be removed by request; now it can be returned by request.

“It’s the right thing to do to make sure that this campus is open and welcoming to everyone,” Nichol said. “This is a diverse institution religiously, and we want it to become even more diverse.”

News flash, kids! Removing a cross from a chapel automatically makes your institution more diverse. There are huge crowds of Muslims, Hindus, and Jews who really wanted to attend W&M, but they heard there was a cross on display in a chapel, and figured they better not come or they might get lynched. Now, though, they will understand that this is a welcoming campus because the cross isn’t there anymore.

“The message that is sent by removing the cross is that we no longer value that part of our heritage, and that’s a mistake,” said Haley, research director at the American Enterprise Institute for former House speaker Newt Gingrich. “It reflects a view that religious symbols – religion and the public expression thereof – are somehow an obstacle for us to get along with one another.”

This is basically the same quote you always hear from the insensitive Christians in these type news stories.

Apparently, removing the cross is making a difference:

Ro’ee Mor, a student from Israel, said that as an Orthodox Jew he was uncomfortable when he and other freshmen were taken to the chapel during orientation.

Since the cross’ removal, he sometimes goes to the chapel to meditate. “I feel more an integral part of the community due to this symbolic action,” he said.

You can see why it’s so easy for the leftist profs to turn these young heads full of mush down the dark passageway to liberalism. I’d be embarrassed to have a quote like that attributed to me…now or when I was 19!