Baptist "ethics" chief Richard Land bagged for plagiarism

[Tanuki]

When I was an undergraduate, my university had a zero tolerance policy for plagiarism and made sure that every entering freshman was read the riot act on this matter during orientation week. "Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty" chief Richard Land, who recently exposed his racism in remarks about the Trayvon Martin case on national radio, wants to "move on" after being outed for plagiarism. The sad thing about Land is that despite his backward views on almost any social topic you could name, does not even have the excuse of being an ignorant yahoo with little exposure to the world of ideas. He has degrees from Princeton and Oxford, and most certainly knows better on all counts.



http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120418/COLUMNIST0101/304180127/1969/NEWS

<<<" [from Gail Kerr's column at the link] He recently used his radio show to talk about the Trayvon Martin shooting. This is the case of the Sanford, Fla., teenager who was shot and killed by neighborhood watch member George Zimmerman. The kid was unarmed and was wearing a hoodie. It’s set off a public frenzy all over the country, including Nashville.

African-American leaders, he said, were using it for political gain and are “race hustlers.”
He also was critical of President Barack Obama. The president spoke out about the case in what most people took as compassion to the family. But Land said the president “poured gasoline on the racialist fires.”

Strong words. Turns out they weren’t Land’s words. He stole them, verbatim, straight out of a Washington Times column by Jeffrey Kuhner titled “Obama Foments Racial Division.”
A Baptist blogger from Waco, Texas, nailed Land on it. The blogger, Aaron Weaver, found another case of alleged plagiarism in another Land radio show. As Tennessean reporter Bob Smietana wrote, Land offered a written and verbal apology, saying he was “sloppy.” Nope. Sloppy is a random typo or a mispronounced name. Presenting the work of another writer as your own is plagiarism. It’s word theft." <more at link>>>>

[tanyev]

1. Next comes the book deal and a job at Focus on the Family.

It worked for Tim Goeglein.

A plagiarism scandal forced Timothy Goeglein to resign in 2008 from former President George W. Bush's administration. The special assistant to President Bush and public liaison deputy director often engaged with evangelicals before he admitted to copying work for several of his columns for a newspaper in Indiana. He previously worked for Indiana Senator Dan Coats and once served as a spokesman for Gary Bauer, who ran for President in 2000. The now vice president for external relations at Focus on the Family spoke to Christianity Today about what led to the plagiarism, how the President responded, and what grace and redemption mean in a political context.

Link to source of the preceding paragraph which I am not pretending that I authored:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/novemberweb-only/timothy-goeglein.html