The Washington Post reports on the political fight of student activists at the evangelical Liberty University:
Obama has energized the youth vote, but he also has provoked a counter-movement. An astonishing 80 percent of Liberty’s 11,400 residential students are registered, and most are Republicans. With polls showing Virginia on the verge of going Democratic, Liberty has canceled classes on Election Day and will provide buses to the polls. The school has also encouraged out-of-state students to switch their registration to Virginia.
Besides taking a full load of classes, Ayendi has been putting in 40-hour weeks on behalf of McCain. She makes phone calls, canvasses, operates a database of student volunteers, uses Facebook as her bully pulpit and will talk to anyone about how she thinks that Obama’s promise to redistribute wealth is an affront to the Constitution. The campaign has galvanized her friends and served as an excellent primer on what lies ahead in their adult lives.
Ayendi and Allen playfully dog one of their Liberty friends for wanting to go into the seminary.
“If you want to get anything changed around here, you have to go through the courts,” Ayendi says. “You gotta be a lawyer.”
Totally, Allen agrees. “My goal is not to make laws Christian but to make government as small as possible so you can be as biblically Christian as you so choose,” she says.
Both plan on spring internships abroad and then law school. But an Obama victory would not send these them into the wilderness. To the contrary, the fight would begin anew.
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