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Casey Mattox: In Defense of the Future Farmers of America

By ADF Alliance Alert

Casey Mattox writes at the Christian Post Advancing Religious Liberty Blog (via Speak Up Movement):  "I have a skeleton in my closet. Two decades ago I did something that could have threatened my college education and all that has followed. In a moment of youthful indiscretion, I associated with a group - even attaining a high ranking leadership position - that, although I did not appreciate it at the time, placed my future at risk. By the grace of God, I overcame this past and, against all odds, managed to be accepted at a top tier university and law school. My skeleton wears blue corduroy. I was the 1992-1993 State President of the Alabama Future Farmers of America.  I learned today that my leadership of a 23,000 student organization with a quarter million dollar budget, particularly when coupled with a similarly ill-considered officer position in 4-H, made it sixty percent less likely that I would be admitted to a top university . . . "

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 15, 2010 (boomark / email).