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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
A legitimate beef once the donation is returned?
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No.
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No school that relies on donations for its livelihood will be succesful long run if it accepts donations that are conditioned on specific curricular changes.
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Schools accept money on all sorts of conditions. The danger in this instance was that the donor did not impose a specific condition, but then acted as if he had. That was why I saw a problem.
But, when you give money (or pledge money) to a school that states that it is promoting christian values or whatever, you have some expectations that this will not change. (There are enormous issues of standing, etc. that would keep you from suing to get money back -- this is an area of law that I know very well -- but I'm not talking about the technical legal issues but rather the ethical ones.)
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Even money to start a ___ studies department/course become pretty hazy pretty fast.
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Believe me, I know. But that haziness is not a necessity; it's the result of choices made by the recipient of the donation.
I am going to avoid talking about this too much more -- it very quickly gets into my IRL work.
