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To: Ancesthntr
As a Georgetown alumnus (1983), I am utterly disgusted by the direction that the university itself, and its student body, have taken in recent years.

It started the year GU installed its first lay (non-priest) president, early to mid 00s. The next year, if I recall, an African bishop came to give the commencement address, in which he spoke of the danger to society of setting aside traditional the Catholic view of sexuality and family. Several of the female faculty got up in a huff and stormed off the platform in full view of all the graduates and their parents.

The following year,GU formed its Gay-Straight Alliance and held a “Sex Positive Week” on campus, with all sorts of perverse displays. Soon after, there was that Georgetown Law student who went before Congress complaining that GU should pay for her birth control...

As this started ramping up, the Exorcist novelist William Peter Blatty tried to start an alumni and donor push-back, and challenged the school to stop calling itself Catholic, but it never went anywhere, and now he’s been dead for years.

33 posted on 07/13/2020 4:52:32 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice." --Donald Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde

Sad what has happened to our alma mater. This is what happens after multiple decades of giving away education to the Leftists - we lose. I wonder if we’ll ever get back to balanced discourse at universities - and short of a civil war that our side wins, I don’t see that happening. We lost the Culture War because we never understood that we were being attacked.


34 posted on 07/13/2020 5:53:10 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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