<p>My condolences to my fellow ccers’s who’d hoped to have the offending religious symbol kept in the closet at a time when we are otherwise advised that all good things must come out of the closet: sort of an anti-out of sight out of mind tolerance of the “other.”.</p>
<p>“see no ‘evil’,” etc, etc, is not in the interest of either knowledge, a multiplicity of views or truth.</p>
<p>If any other religious symbol had been an historic part of the chapel, I would have protested its removal, as well.</p>
<p>Religion is, to my mind, a culturally and at times spiritually edifying human institution. There are many ways of knowing truth, and certainly religion and, within that ancient matrix, Christianity, is one of them.</p>
<p>Here are others points of interest in the area:
<a href=“http://www.wm.edu/so/balfour-hillel/Community-%20Local%20Synagogues.htm[/url]”>http://www.wm.edu/so/balfour-hillel/Community-%20Local%20Synagogues.htm</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://www.wm.edu/so/msa/[/url]”>http://www.wm.edu/so/msa/</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://www.wm.edu/studentactivities/clubs/directory.php?id=376[/url]”>http://www.wm.edu/studentactivities/clubs/directory.php?id=376</a></p>
<p>There are others. Hopefully, out of this, there presence will grow at the campus of William & Mary.</p>