College to Fire Prof Who Forced Students to Sign Obama Voting Pledge

National   |   Steven Ertelt   |   Feb 19, 2013   |   4:30PM   |   Washington, DC

Brevard Community College appears set to fire a professor who made her students sign a pledge during the 2012 presidential election to vote for pro-abortion President Barack Obama.

The college received national attention last year when Professor Sharon Sweet required her students to sign a pledge to support Obama and other pro-abortion Democratic candidates. In response, Dr. Jim Richley, the president of Brevard Community College, recommended to the school’s Board of Trustees that Sweet be fired, following an internal investigation the college conducted.

The web site Campus Reform has more details:

“The investigation found that Professor Sweet strongly encouraged or mandated that students from several classes sign a pledge card that stated, ‘I pledge to vote for President Obama and Democrats up and down the ticket,’” the report released by BCC stated.

In a statement, Richley said Sweet, who has been on paid suspension since Campus Reform broke the story last September, should be fired for “harassment, incompetence, misconduct and unprofessional behavior.”

The BCC investigation also found that Sweet had employed deceptive practices in order to obtain the pledges.

“She also misrepresented her intentions to multiple students, indicating at various times that she was conducting voter registration for the college, that the pledge cards were non-partisan voter registration forms, and that the pledge was a ‘statistical analysis,’ it added.

Obama brings an extensive pro-abortion record to his second-term — one that pro-life advocates expect will get worse.

Martin Fox, President of the National Pro-Life Alliance, says: “I have no doubt that the next four years will be more of the same.”

He said he hopes the House of Representatives can push back against the Obama abortion agenda.

“The House of Congress where pro-lifers have the most control is the one that holds the power of the purse — the House of Representatives,” he said. “And in fact, in early 2011, after pro-lifers won back the House of Representatives, the battle to cut taxpayer funding of abortions began in earnest with the House of Representatives passing the Pence Amendment that would cut off all federal funding of abortion. In the last election, pro-lifers actually picked up additional pledged support in the House to fight against taxpayer funding of abortion.”

From taxpayer funding of abortions in America and around the world, to the funding of the creating and destruction of human life in embryonic stem cell research with your tax money; from the absolute refusal to cut off public funding to Planned Parenthood to the stacking of the Supreme Court and federal courts with hardcore abortion advocates, pro-life groups say Obama has left every unborn child behind.

During his first week in office, Obama wasted no time in overturning the Mexico City Policy that President Bush put back in place after it was scrapped during the Bush administration. The Mexico City Policy requires the more than 600 groups that receive State Department taxpayer funding to pledge not to promote or perform abortions with it. Abortion advocates  objected to the measure for years during the Bush administration because they want to use the funds to do abortions overseas or lobby pro-life nations to reverse their laws against unlimited abortions.

Obama legally had the right to divert the funding, but his administration appears to have also broken the law to promote abortion overseas.

A November 2011 GAO report looking into the Obama Administration’s use of $18 million in taxpayer funds to provide funding for a group pushing legalized abortion in Kenya found the administration broke the law.

The report showed at least one Obama grantee openly pushed to expand abortion in Kenya despite a long-standing, annually renewed law that prohibits U.S. tax dollars from being used to lobby for or against abortion in other countries. The GAO report also reveals that a key Obama official stonewalled investigators and refused to cooperate with the GAO in its investigation of the activities.

Congressman Chris Smith said “The Obama Administration basically hired surrogates to do its dirty work of abortion promotion in Kenya.  This new report shows that at a minimum the Obama Administration ignored the prohibition with the end result being a new Kenyan constitution that vastly expands access to abortion in Kenya, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer.”

Not long after he doled out money to Planned Parenthood, Obama sent more than $50 million to the UNFPA. That’s the agency that works hand in hand with the population control regime in China that enforces the one-child policy with human rights abuses like forced abortions and coercive sterilizations.

The third major decision Obama made after the Mexico City Policy was to overturn the limits President Bush put in place to ensure Americans don’t pay for embryonic stem cell research.

Despite the fact that they still don’t work in animals without causing tumors or immune system rejection issues, despite the fact that scientists and even top cloning and embryonic research firms are abandoning the field in droves, and despite the fact that adult stem cells continue to be the only vehicle for cures for patients for more than 100 different diseases or medical conditions, President Obama continues to make Americans pay millions for the creation and destruction of human beings for research.

Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards is so close to Obama that White House visitor logs in only the first full year of his presidency show the head of the nation’s premier abortion business visited the White House and spent time with Obama administration officials on four occasions. That includes the White House health care summit that led to Obamacare, which funds abortions.

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Obama is so beholden to Planned Parenthood that he was willing to shut down the federal government to prevent the Pence Amendment that House Republicans approved from going into law. Speaker John Boehner spent more than an hour lobbying the president to allow it but Obama wouldn’t budge.

The president has also appointed longtime abortion activists to prominent places in his administration and, on judges, Obama’s track record is clear. Sonia Sotomayor and Elanan Kagan, along with dozens of other judicial selections, ardently support abortion.

In January 2012, Obama put in place a mandate that requires religious groups, employers or even Americans who run businesses and find these practices objectionable — to pay for contraception, birth control, sterilizations, and drugs that may cause abortions for their employees. Even after Obama revised his mandate to supposedly shift the burden from the employer to the insurance company – which still means employers have to refer Americans pay the cost in higher premiums – the Obama administration implemented the original mandate.