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userkayjay · 8 months

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A PLACE TO CALL HOME 1.12

#a place to call home #aplacetocallhomeedit #aptchedit #perioddramaedit #tvedit #lgbtqedit #aussietvedit #mlmedit #davidberryedit #james bligh #harry polson #david berry #dominic allburn #saltybenchday

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ballumville · 1 year

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Oh the intrigues of Love...I love Harry and Henry's love story... 🥰😍

#tim draxl #dominic allburn #loveislove #lgbt drama #harry polson #a place called home #henry fox

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wutbju · 1 year

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I wrote about Ted Mercer back in 2012 -- eleven years ago.

He was the 1951 Vintage dedicatee. Over the years that's always a tell. If they dedicate a Vintage to you, you'll be on the way out. It's a love bomb. Watch for them to dedicate the 2023 Vintage to Steve Pettit.

The first time I heard about Mercer was ~1993 when I was listening to my first graduate audition in the Division of Speech. A young man from Bryan College was applying for a graduate assistantship. And one of the senior, hoary-headed members of our faculty said to us all (something like), “Are we sure we should let him in? He is, after all, from Bryan.” Her words were pregnant with a mysterious and sinister meaning.

That was Dottie Harris.

Now I was the youngest faculty member in this group. And . . . I’m a little bit clueless as I’ve said before. So, in typical fashion, I just asked earnestly, “What do you mean? What’s wrong with Bryan?” Another less-junior-than-I colleague -- it was Lonnie Polson -- nodded and agreed, “Yeah, I’d like to know too! I have no idea.” And the senior member just sighed and shook her head, disappointed with these children these days about how they know nothing of the past. . . . I think. I don’t know why she was sighing. But I never heard the details that day.

Mercer graduated from BJU in 1943 -- president of the Senior Class. Immediately BJC made him the Dean of Men, and soon after he was the "Assistant to the President" through 1953.

But then it all fell apart. Something happened to piss off Bob Sr. so badly that he raged at Mercer -- raged so loudly that it's still in Dan Turner's official history. To explain his side, Mercer sent this “Statement Concerning my Dismissal from Bob Jones University” to BJU Board of Trustees after his firing on June 15, 1953.

If you’ve ever found yourself on the other side of a BJU administrator’s desk feeling the ax hovering above your neck, the statement reads eerily prophetic.

The litany of accusations against him are mostly familiar. We’ve all been called the same whether in front of or behind our backs — “avowed enemy of the school,” unfaithful, inefficient, deceitful, “one of the greatest crooks in the history of the school,” demon-possessed, “the devil.” Mercer euphemizes the most intense accusation of homosexuality under the term “my moral character” — an accusation that still lingers.

You’ll want to look at the list of BJU Board Members near the end. It’s at the very least intriguing. There’s Homer Rodeheaver and Jack Wyrtzen. There’s Mordecai Ham and Ernest Reveal. And you see some familiar fathers there. Look. There’s Ted Mercer’s dad, Jim. And John MacArthur, Sr. (father of the John MacArthur, Jr.). and William Piper (father of John Piper).

BJU apparently was undergoing an enormous faculty turnover in the 1952-53 school year — a movement that would only continue into the years to come. Mercer includes one letter of resignation in the end of his pamphlet from Karl E. Keefer. We who have been associated with BJU since 1952 don’t know Dr. Keefer. We do know his replacement very well — a 24-year-old Dwight Gustafson.

Then there's an additional statement to the Alumni. Read it. Notice Mercer’s description of faculty salaries and treatment, the Joneses’ attitude toward accreditation, their capricious and egocentric rule, their tendency for hyperbole, and their habit of playing good-cop-bad-cop with the younger Jones vs. the elder Jones.

Just change the dates and the people or the suffix on the end of the administrator’s name.

Nothing has changed at BJU.

If you're surprised at the John Lewis & Bob Jones III behavior, you haven't been paying attention. This is really old news.

#Bob Jones University #Ted Mercer #The Cruelty is the POint #Make BJU Great AGain #Closure #Make Pettit Prez Again

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jayhalsstead · 4 years

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Some things are easier resisted if they're denied… But I made you feel like you're a freak, and that you're alone, and that's not true. If you can't find a way to proceed, a woman to love, then I hope that you can find...

someone to love.

#aptchedit #james bligh #harry polson #lgbtedit #a place to call home #aptch #mine #Harry loved him so much #I'm currently ignoring season 5 #hello it's my newest tv show obsession #I know Im late to the party

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therainbowromance · 4 years

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