Which nut?
Posted on 05/10/2006 1:08:24 AM PDT by Lorianne
How is academic freedom like Catholicism? Well, if you are a left-wing academic, the answer is obvious: Both can be used like a club on people you don't like.
Consider the current contretemps over Boston College's invitation to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to be this year's commencement speaker and receive an honorary degree. Rice, the first black woman to be secretary of state, was a distinguished professor of political science at Stanford University, where she received the top awards for teaching. Later, she was Stanford's provost. Her CV is precisely the sort of thing that makes her a no-brainer to receive an honorary degree and be a commencement speaker. Certainly she is more deserving than such past Boston College honorary-degree recipients as Barbara Bush and Queen Noor of Jordan.
Don't tell that to the faculty at B.C. In a letter distributed by the heads of the Catholic school's theology department and signed by about 200 faculty members, we are informed that, "On the levels of both moral principle and practical moral judgment, Secretary Rice's approach to international affairs is in fundamental conflict with Boston College's commitment to the values of the Catholic and Jesuit traditions and is inconsistent with the humanistic values that inspire the university's work." The letter, titled "Condoleezza Rice Does Not Deserve a Boston College Honorary Degree," cherry-picks quotes from Pope John Paul II to argue that Rice's positions should disqualify her as a commencement speaker.
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God save us from liberals.
Incorrect headline. It's BC, not BU. Two very different places. (My kid graduated from BU last year.)
Boston College, not Boston University.
Don't donate to Catholic education in Boston and write them why?
You'd be amazed how they will find religion if money stops coming in.
Libs continue to be the biggest hypocrites in the world. You have the right to say anything you want...as long as it agrees with rad/liberal dogma. The thing is these academics can't conceive why anyone could possibly disagree with their wonderful "progressive" view of the world. For libs/ultra-leftists, if you don't agree with the Noam Chomskys and the Howard Zinns, you're obviously a fascist.
Ooops, sorry.
No biggie, but you might ask the moderator to fix the headline.
I remember Harvard wanted to have a big-do when they had their 350th anniversary in 1986. The only problem was that Ronald Reagan was president and they didn't want to give HIM an honorary degree. Flops like Bill Clinton were just fine as recipients. So they cooked up some invitation where they had to invite the president but he got no honors. To their shock, Reagan had other plans that day and snubbed the world's most important place and most important people.
I think that a big part of the value of the Ivy experience is the network you get plugged into, especially as an undergraduate. There's really no way to calculate the value of this component; it's literally a career-maker, in many cases.
The liberal indoctorination is essentially a "tax" on the networking opportunity, in my view. You want into the club, you've got to listen to the lefty loons.
I would love to be able to sit in a room and listen to Dr. Rice speak. What an honor that would be.
However, I would give my left nut to watch a football game with her.
Racism!
God save us from liberals.
Howlin,
You know I agree with 99 percent of everything you say normally, but in this case, could it be that a Catholic University does not want a speaker who is pro choice. Just a thought.
As an outsider I have wondered about the quality of the Catholic Church in Massachuetts.I have been disturbed by the priest's scandal,gay marriage,Catholic Charities allowing adoptions by homosexuals and Catholics like Senator Kennedy and Father Drinan.Boston College has helped to create the problems in the Catholic Church in Massachuetts.
You'd think that they are to busy these days dealing with the numerous lawsuits from the molestation incidents.
I suggest that you go look at prior speakers at the college before you make that assumption.
BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL (Boston, MA): Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer gave the commencement address on May 23. Breyer has defended and upheld the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion and finding a “privacy right” to abortion. In 2000, Breyer authored the majority opinion in Stenberg v. Carhart, striking down a Nebraska ban on “partial-birth abortion” as unconstitutional because it created an “undue burden” on women seeking abortions. “All those who perform abortion procedures using that method must fear prosecution,” Breyer wrote. “The result is an undue burden upon a woman’s right to make an abortion decision.”
So, it is NOT because she is mildly pro-choice, but for ant-war reason. (And the fact that she is a Republican.)
The proboem is that these people at Boston do not really follow the Pope or the major tenants of the Catholic Church. The two Senators from Mass. , both "Catholic" are two of the most anti Catholic Senators. Big supporters of abortion etc. We all know the many crimes and indescressions of the "Catholic" Kennedy family. Who at Boston U has spoken out? Catholics should not send their children to this University.
Which nut?
What do you expect from a college run by Jesuits? The Catholic Church has been ruined by these heretics.
I'd have to say that you must not have been paying attention. Boston College, like Jesuits schools everywhere. does not care a whit about whether a person is "pro" - anythng that's leftist. The only crime (or sin) for them is being conservative. I graduated from 2 Jesuit schools many, many years ago, but I wouldn't give them a dime today.
the left one...
;-)
LOL! Love it.
Those "Haaaaah-vaaahd!" academic anklebiters weren't even qualified to spit-shine Reagan's shoes.
Yes, interesting that Harvuud would snub a man of such accomplishments as Ronald Reagan and leap to give laurels to those Kennedy family members afflicted by the "awful curse" that apparently causes you to drive drunk, have sex with underage babysitters, leave a girl to die and engage in all sorts of trashy actions. Dana Milbank of the Washington Post has now attributed Patrick Kennedy's conduct to the "awful curse" -- I KNEW it wouldn't be long before the Post writers volunteered to clean the Kennedy toilets. Strange, but I don't remember the Washington Post, as water and sewage carriers for the Democratic Party, ever saying anything about an "awful curse" hanging over Richard Nixon.
"Catholic Charities allowing adoptions by homosexuals"
I believe that Catholic Charities in Mass stopped facilitating adoptions in Mass because they could not agree to adoption by homosexuals. In turn, they were given the right to continue their adoption services without adoption for homosexuals.
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P.J. O'Rourke wrote about that incident. His quote was along the lines of, "Reagan, God bless him, told Harvard to go piss up a rope."
Have you ever read PJ's Holidays in Hell about vacations in such garden spots as Lebanon in the 1980s? One of the funniest books I've ever come across.
you're right...that's how all the Kennedy's get their annulments..how come homosexual predators are allowed to rape boys..etc..etc...
money grubbing, hypocritical, libs have bastardized the church. we need a reformation of the church and I think the new pope might be up for it.
However the Cardinals and Bishops are so infiltrated with these parasites that he needs to go in with a machete to weed out the infestation.
What has happened to the Church? I'm a Roman Catholic, and feel like its turned into some parody of itself. I know that man is fallible and that the Lord works in mysterious ways, but what to do when the "church" and the other organs of the church are so screwed up that you feel that by supporting it you are abetting sin.
I chose to leave. I've become a Christian but have a hard time finding a "church".
thanks for allowing the rant...back to our regular programming.
I too survived a Jesuit indoctrination attempt, in the guise of a 4-yr college degree.
Anything I get from them today (most often requests for money) goes straight to the trash...'cept on the occasions I'm feeling ornery and wanna fire off a caustic reply as to why they're not getting any $$$ from me ;)
World's smallest.
By that line of reasoning, they should ban the Pope from speaking there.
I think they are throwing out that canard now. I was surprised to see the difference a a day or two makes in this story. I saw a professor on O'Rielly a few days ago spouting liberal crap. Last night, though, a student was talking about this on H&C and the opposition had turning into abortion views.
After reading more into this. It is clear that they are full of liberal nonsense and you can't even give them the benefit of the doubt because that are so obvious. It is a shame. I wanted to believe that maybe it was a valid reason but again I am disappointed by the liberal persons that have "taken over" the education system even in many cases the private schools.
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