Now it is "The Award Winning Tennessee Baptist Convention vs Belmont University Law Suit"

Listed in The Nashville Scene's Boner* Awards 2006 is an irreverent public perspective of what is transpiring between the Tennessee Baptist Convention and Belmont University:

What was that thing about money changers?
"The Lord giveth, but if you’re not careful, He’ll taketh away. In a story that points out the contradictions inherent in the collision of religion, big money and higher learning, the Tennessee Baptist Convention demanded back the money it has given to Belmont University over the past half-century. At issue is control of Belmont’s board of trustees, which has been 100 percent Baptist: the university seeks to reduce the board’s Baptist presence, while the Baptists want all the power their charity can buy. We’re not talking chump change, either. In October, the convention filed a lawsuit asking for $57 million, citing a 1951 repayment agreement that apparently no one remembered until a couple of years ago."

Does anyone at the TBC or Belmont want to revisit the quote, "I'm sorry that it has come to this"? Maybe it would be better if we said collectively that we're really, REALLY sorry that it came to this.

*Boner Awards - named for former Mayor Bill Boner of harmonica-on-late-night-television-buffoon fame (and notably a much better man these days than those prior years - people DO change).