Posted on 02/03/2018 5:54:59 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Georgetown claims absence of proper funding mechanism responsible
Georgetown University claimed Friday that the absence of a proper funding mechanism was responsible for the mysterious misappropriation of at least $400 in donations to a family values student club that has been censured on campus as "homophobic" for its religious stance.
Love Saxa, which promotes traditional views of dating and marriage, alerted the university Thursday to the alleged misdirection of the funds in a letter sent by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a religious freedom legal advocate, to Georgetown President John DeGioia.
From November to December 2017, at least $400 in donations were deposited with the Center for Student Engagement, but never appeared in Love Saxa's account, according to the letter.
One donor received a receipt from Georgetown showing that his $50 gift had been allocated to the "LGBTQ Resource Center Reserve." Another donor receipt for $100 was tagged for the Saxatones a cappella group, who, ADF noted, "partnered with the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League."
Love Saxa has also yet to receive any funds it courted during the Georgetown Phonathon, according to the letter.
A Georgetown spokesperson told the Washington Free Beacon in an emailed statement Friday, "All gifts to Love Saxa have been identified and are being deposited to Love Saxa's account. When the university receives a gift designated by donor for a student group with access to benefits, the gifts are allocated with a designated worktag that ensures they reach the intended recipient. Because a Fall 2017 gift was the first donation of its kind to Love Saxa, no established path existed. As always in these cases, we corrected the mistakes, have developed a path to ensure that funds are routed properly in the future, and have communicated to the student group and the donors that the gifts have been properly allocated."
The representative did not respond to questions about how often such errors occur.
Travis Barham, Love Saxa's ADF legal counsel, said he had direct communication from Georgetown as of Friday afternoon and could not confirm if the club had received the money.
He said that even should the funds be returned, questions remained about how the gifts were ever misplaced, given that Love Saxa students followed Georgetown's established fundraising protocols.
"Our clients took donations received in the mail to the appropriate officials, and deposited them as they were supposed to—and those funds ended up in the coffers of LGBTQ center," said Barham. "[Georgetown's] statement doesn't clear up how that happened. It was the university's obligation to ensure a pathway existed for these logistical arrangements."
Barham added that the statement did nothing to clarify how it was that the club's "ideological opponent" was the recipient of these gifts.
"Their explanation seems unlikely," said Barham.
Sivagami Subbaraman, director of the LGBTQ Resource Center, declined to comment.
The funds' strange movement occurred against the backdrop of a Georgetown investigation into the club, said Barham, and an effort by the Student Activities Commission to defund the group for being "hateful," "archaic," and "dehumanizing."
Georgetown, a Catholic institution, has been heavily criticized for its treatment of the Christian club.
The funds’ strange movement occurred against the backdrop of a Georgetown investigation into the club and an effort by the Student Activities Commission to defund the group for being “hateful,” “archaic,” and “dehumanizing.”
Georgetown, a Catholic institution, has been heavily criticized for its treatment of the Christian club.
The very definition of non-government corruption is a major university.
Hell, they could even give the FBI, CIA, IRA, Just-Us, and congress lessons on lying and just plain sleaze.
Always remember that the most corrupt and inept collection of clowns in any university is the admin and human relations tribe.
Gay infiltrators in the finance office
In the inverted world of Western decadence, good is evil, truth is mendacity, diversity is conformity, lawlessness is law, tolerance is intolerance, love is hate, peace is war, freedom is slavery—just as George Orwell envisioned.
Gay infiltrators in Catholic[?] Georgetown University.
Gay infiltrators in the Catholic Church.
both
[The very definition of non-government corruption is a major university.
Hell, they could even give the FBI, CIA, IRA, Just-Us, and congress lessons on lying and just plain sleaze.
Always remember that the most corrupt and inept collection of clowns in any university is the admin and human relations tribe.]
More and more of us are awakening to the fact that the universities are the main supporters and transmitters of Cultural Marxism.
Higher education runs further and further from the Christian traditions and support of universities as free places for the exchange of ideas, philosophy, and science.
The public purse is hiring Marxist destruction.
I see colleges and universities withering away like Marx claimed the state would when Communism triumphed. As the focus of Marxism, higher education is withering away as the focal point of civilization and worthwhile living simply because communism is winning there.
There are people much better informed than I who predict that in the next decade or two there will be a mass closure of colleges and universities.
I hope so. That is the only way we can start over. And we must start as free and civilized Christian intellectual and moral leadership once more.
Like having sex segregated bathrooms and no more safe places with color crayons and teddy bears.
Warriors must lead. And somewhere I hear the rustling of their stirring. Harken your ears for war cries.
I’m too old to fight now, but I do know and can shout out most of the old war cries.
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