Ethics

Herb Titus and the Birthers

By Ed Brayton

I am very, very disappointed to see this article at the Worldnutdaily, which quotes Herb Titus saying what appear to be some rather crazy things about Obama's "divided loyalties." I use the phrase "appear to be" because I'm holding out hope that he is being quoted out of context. But if the way the Worldnutdaily presents his views is accurate, this is some seriously crazy stuff.

Herb Titus was the original dean of the Regent University law school. I have debated him on the radio and exchanged correspondence with him and found him, despite our disagreements on virtually everything, to be very smart and a real gentleman. We have mutual friends who have worked with him and have enormous respect for him. I have always had a real problem with the fact that he associates himself with Christian Reconstructionists, but this material is really bad:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 13, 2009 (boomark / email).