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Bishop George Dallas McKinney
The anti-gay Coalition of African American Pastors has announced that National Organization for Marriage’s Brian Brown is scheduled to receive an “honorary doctorate of letters” this weekend. The degree will be conferred by American Urban University.
Except that American Urban University doesn’t seem to exist.
According to Bizpedia, the president of American Urban University was Bishop George D. McKinney from St. Stephen’s Cathedral Church of God in Christ in San Diego, CA. Bishop McKinney is one of the organizers of Coalition of African American Pastors, the group giving Mr. Brown the honorary degree.
However, the university’s corporation status was suspended in 1989.
Not surprisingly, although Bishop McKinney’s biography on the church website mentions the many universities where he has studied and talks about his many accomplishments, it doesn’t mention American Urban University.
H/T Jeremy Hooper at Good As You.
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* Anti-equality religionists prop themselves up with unearned honorary titles
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Somenhow, Brian Brown receiving an honorary degree from a university that doesn’t exist is too appropriate. I mean, it just fits the whole NOM ethos, y’know?
Ain’t Nothing like the *NOT* real thing.
Well damn! Isn’t NOM paying the salary of the group’s president, William Owens?
Maybe he’s getting an honorary degree from Urban Legend University.
Note that the fake degree is being conferred by a fake bishop who preaches in a fake cathedral. At least they’re consistant.
Their reality doesn’t exist, hasn’t for some time, and won’t even more so in the future. So if they want to grant each other fake degrees from fake universities, maybe they can admit they live in Another Reality?
I mean, this isn’t For Real, is it?
The bishop’s wife also has a phony degree from a non-existent university: Imani Kumba U, in San Diego, CA. Their listed address is a single family home in a modest neighborhood. Totally fake. I guess lying is a family trait with this couple.
And I just noticed that American Urban University is still listed at an address in Long Beach, which is a condominium unit nestled in a quiet neighborhood. I don’t think the good ol’ U. ever existed at all.
I just looked this up. American Urban University’s football will open the season on the road against the University of Phoenix.
good one. I bet they play online only.
I’m sure “Bishop” Eddie Long of GA will be on the cheerleading team after all…
An all but mythological organization also credentialed Rand Paul as an ophthalmologist.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/06/15/rand-paul-opthamology-certification-scandal-why-it-matters.html
Life is so much easier for people like that than it is for people who hesitate to commit fraud, isn’t it?