No one who has any idea what has become of the Ivy League was surprised to hear that Yale Students were leaving class, sitting in, running for safe spaces, and bussing to Washington, D.C. to protest Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation vote in the Senate.  Never mind the grotesque irony of law students eschewing somewhat significant legal concepts like the presumption of innocence, evidence, corroboration of witness testimony. 

As David French pointed out:

“Believe victims” is a toxic ideology. You respect alleged victims by hearing and diligently investigating claims, not by believing them regardless of the state of the evidence. That disrespects the person on the receiving end of the claim.

The first people to cheer that obvious truth are law students.  But this is politics, and for the Ivies, that cuts only one way these days – truth notwithstanding.

What was funny, however, was the leftist outrage that ensued when word broke that the evangelical Liberty University was planning on sending 300 students to D.C. to protest the smear campaign that has been orchestrated against Kavanaugh by those committed to the macabre practice of abortion.

Josh Moody broke the news, quoting Liberty president Jerry Falwell, Jr. at a student convocation today:

“Liberty University is only three hours from D.C., so we try to give our students a chance to get involved in national politics,” Falwell said, noting that students from Yale University Kavanaugh’s alma mater will be at the Capitol to protest the SCOTUS nominee. Kavanaugh has been accused of sexual misconduct by three women, with one set to testify before Congress Thursday. Kavanaugh has denied the allegations, which date back to three decades ago.

“If you want to be excused from classes tomorrow, go to Washington and counter what the Yale students are doing, [and] support Judge Kavanaugh, we’ve got 300 spots for you,” Falwell said.

Jack Jenkins at the left-leaning Religion News Service retweeted Moody’s report and the liberal indignation was palpable.  Responses like this poured in:

If @LibertyU wants to walk in the way of Jesus, maybe their students should go to DC to hand out water bottles to the Yale protesters. But, here again, that'd require being like Jesus, so ...

The idea that Jesus would make it His priority to encourage and facilitate the casting of stones at another based on, to this point, accusations that range from unsubstantiated to discredited smears, seems to run afoul of…well, everything someone who has read the Bible actually knows of Jesus.  

But there were others just as bizarre:

“It is all about abortion for these people. That is all they care about.”

That’s too much.  Forget pot meeting kettle, this type of lack of self-awareness is epic.  As these accusations and allegations against Kavanaugh continue to unravel, the uncomfortable, despicable truth that Erick Erickson pinpointed several days ago has become self-evident.  This entire circus of character assassination that’s been orchestrated on the left against Kavanaugh is about one thing only: preserving the right to kill children in the womb.   

Kavanaugh is seen as a threat to that bloodlust and therefore the left is responding to its abortion taskmasters.  The degree to which the progressive movement is invested in, financed by, beholden to the abortion lobby has never been so apparent. 

That would seemingly be the real story for Religion News Service to cover – how the idolatry of child sacrifice prompted one of the vilest displays of the left’s politics of personal destruction they have ever conducted.  It’s doubtful that such a courageous piece would get quite the positive feedback their anti-Liberty dog-whistle pieces do.

Not that anyone else needs to say it again, but this whole circus is beyond shameful.