Per the Hampton Roads Pilot:
A longtime donor to the College of William and Mary will withhold a $12 million pledge to the public university because of the removal of a cross from a campus chapel.
The donation was pledged to the campaign fund before Gene Nichol became the university’s president and was revoked because the donor disagreed with Nichol’s decision to remove the brass cross from permanent display on the chapel’s altar, spokesman Mike Connolly said.
The moral of the story: Don’t ban the display of a cross from an altar in a historical chapel at a historical religious university. And if you do, don’t follow that up by defending the display of dildos and strippers at that same institution.
