In case you missed it, here is the Commission's plan to regain Erskine from "doctrinal drift," by which I mean Erskine not keeping up with the conservative drift of the ARP Synod.
Step 1: "Clear the deadwood." The Board of Trustees was an irksome thorn in our side that needed to be dealt with. So we did. That'll teach the Board to disagree with us!
Step 2: "Rewrite the bylaws." We need to exert more control over the Board. You know, more control than appointing every board member. The bylaws need to be rewritten to make sure this sort of thing never needs to happen again. Of course if it does need to happen again, we'll know what to do. We'll shrink the board this summer, and since everybody on the board agrees with us now (after the Purge, that is), it won't matter who we get rid of! Our control over the board will be absolute (you know, as in more absolute than when we appointed all the board members in the first place).
Step 3: "Clear the deadwood." I realize this has already happened, but we need to clear out the administration and dissonent faculty. I guess we have a pretty good idea of the Ousted-To-Be. Care to guess who didn't make the cut?
Step 4: "Pack the Court." Reinvent the wheel? Of course not! People have been packing the court for ages. The Southern Baptists packed their college board and administration to see their will accomplished. We will do the same thing! The new Board reworks the administration and faculty. Bad faculty leave. And finally, we get a new president! Hurrah!
Hence the pesky problem of lawsuits! Here we are, stuck between step 1 and step 2. The only thing worse than people saying you have no authority to fire whoever we like from the Board is to have the courts say we have authority to fire whoever we want from the Board! I admire Synod for their chutzpah. Forget argument. Forget compromise. Fourteen members of the board disagree with us? Sack them!
How now shall we do that?
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