From 2009:
Georgetown. Notre Dame covered up a wall. The administrations at these schools (since the 1950s at least DUH!) have no respect for Catholicism. Parents are stupid to spend their and their kids’ resources there, as the kids learn how to put down Catholicism. And they are stupid to be surprised.
They’re better off at a secular college.
According to a Georgetown spokeswoman, Julie Green Bataille:
“In coordinating the logistical arrangements for yesterday’s event, Georgetown honored the White House staff’s request to cover all of the Georgetown University signage and symbols behind Gaston Hall stage.”
“The White House,” she added, “wanted a simple backdrop of flags and pipe and drape for the speech, consistent with what they’ve done for other policy speeches.”
Turns out, the usual movable drapery barriers were not tall enough to hide the cross and IHS emblem, a traditional Catholic abbreviation for the name of Jesus Christ. So the school agreed to cloak the entire wall structure with the religious symbols. (See photos) Our colleague Mark Silva has more details here.
The Democratic White House explained the move as a desire to keep the backdrop for presidential speeches consistent and not distracting to the audience. The president, who has yet to select a local parish for his family in Washington, has described his religion as “Christian.”
Who does that? aren't people Lutherans or Catholics or Baptists? Thanks for posting that. It just hit me how telling that is.
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