More than 10,000 Christians petition Boston College to reject Koch grant
More than 10,000 Christians have signed a petition urging officials at Boston College to reject a potential donation from the Koch Foundation toward the Jesuit university’s political science department.
The online Christian social justice organization Faithful America submitted the signatures to school administrators on December 12, arguing that accepting money from the libertarian multibillionaire Koch family is “completely antithetical to BC’s Jesuit ideals.”
“Koch Industries is among the country’s biggest climate polluters,” the petition argues. “Its leaders, billionaires Charles Koch and his late brother David, have spent their fortune electing climate deniers, fighting labor unions, and pushing America towards the right—not the values a Christian school should stand for.”
