Forwarding Controversy (tell our students "Republican party the Christian version of Taliban")

http://www.carrollnewsonline.com/index.php?id=135 ^ | December 5, 2004 | Greg Hoener

[Diago]

“We need to tell our students that Bush is a liar and that many in the Republican party are essentially the Christian version of the Taliban”

http://www.carrollnewsonline.com/index.php?id=135

From the John Carroll University Student Newspaper

Meetings are being held to discuss politics in the classroom after a professor apologized for an e-mail in which he vented his frustrations over the result of the presidential election.

The controversial e-mail was written by Paul Lauritzen, director of the Applied Ethics Program and professor of Religious Studies, to 32 faculty and administrators.

The e-mail, which was sent on Thursday, Nov. 4 at 10:31 a.m., somehow made it into the hands of students.

In it, Lauritzen wrote that he was “depressed beyond belief” at the result of the election. He added that he was angry, using an expletive.

He then called on colleagues to become more active in political discussion with their students.

“We need to tell our students that Bush is a liar and that many in the Republican party are essentially the Christian version of the Taliban,” he wrote.

“Bush won Ohio and much of the rest of the country because of Guns, Gays, and God,” Lauritzen wrote.

He added, “I say No Guns, No Gay Bashing, Not Your God.”

He added that faculty must organize against the war in Iraq.

“We have to abandon this studied neutrality,” Lauritzen wrote. “We have to lead by example. I ask you to join me in transforming the culture at JCU.”

At the end of the e-mail, Lauritzen urged the recipients to forward the message to others who might be interested.

The Carroll News obtained the e-mail from various students who each expressed their concern over its contents.

Senior Brian Ellis, who was one of the students who got a hold of the e-mail, met with Lauritzen.

“We’re not paying for a one-sided education,” Ellis said.

Nine days after the original e-mail, Lauritzen sent out an apology to the faculty, staff and administrator e-mail list. The same apology will be sent to all students.

“Because the language of the e-mail was intemperate, it has given great offense to many in our community, especially many Republicans,” Lauritzen wrote.

Lauritzen said that it was not his intention to insult anyone.

He also apologized to the recipients of the e-mail, saying that they could mistakenly be thought to endorse the e-mail.

“No one should draw that conclusion,” Lauritzen said.

He added, “The anger expressed in my e-mail was blameworthy, and I apologize for it.”

[Diago]

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=3256

Paul Lauritzen, professor of Religious Studies at John Carroll University, testified in a report to the July meeting of President Bush's Council on Bioethics that human embryos are not persons, and that embryonic stem cell experiments should proceed. He criticized the Church's insistence that laws should respect the embryo as "a human subject with a well-defined identity."

[zip]

This was the part I really liked. It says it all. "I'm for freedom of speech as long as it's mine and not in disagreement with my leftist causes." This is what our students are subjected to on a daily basis. Damn, just damn.

“I am not worried about the ‘Vagina Monologues,’ but I am [concerned] about the Cardinal Newman Society,” Flannery said. “We are a university; we must raise issues of disagreement, related to interpreting the faith and related to free speech—to a level of discourse which respects the various positions on the issues.”

[zip]

I wrote each one.

Always the troublemaker. lol

[NavVet]

"Lauritzen said that it was not his intention to insult anyone."

What he meant was that it was not his intention for anyone he insulted to find out about it.

[baseballmom]

I also attended a Jesuit school. I wish I'd gone to a Catholic school instead.

My older 2 children graduated from Jesuit universities, and did just fine. The youngest attends a state university.

3 votes for Bush this year. ;-)

Education starts in the home. It always has.

[Knock3Times]

Thanks for the info, Diago:

Contact the JCU President and others at:

eglynn@jcu.edu
carrollnews@jcu.edu
jsheehan@jcu.edu



John Carroll University (OH)
Rev. Edward Glynn, S.J., President
20700 N. Park Blvd., University Heights, OH 44118
Phone: (216) 397-1886
E-mail: eglynn@jcu.edu



J. Gerard Sheehan jsheehan@jcu.edu
Director of Public Affairs
216-397-4565

[Emmett McCarthy]

My education did start in the home and my Dad (who was always proud of "Uncle Joe" McCarthy) didn't really like the idea of my going to Jesuit schools, but he went along for the educational value of it. As I got older, I realized how right he was.

[Diago]

http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/pdf/Culture%20of%20Death%20on%20Catholic%20Campuses.pdf


_ Paul Lauritzen has been a Religious Studies
professor since 1985 and Chairman of the Religious
Studies Department since 1999. He is
Director of the Program in Applied Ethics and
teaches bioethics and religious ethics.
Lauritzen testified in a report prepared for the
July 2003 meeting of the U.S. President’s
Council on Bioethics that the human embryo is
not a person. “I do not think the early embryo
is a person, and I believe that both embryonic
and adult stem cell research should go forward
under a system of strict regulation,” Lauritzen
wrote in the paper titled “The Ethics of Stem
Cell Research”. The paper argues against the
Catholic Church’s insistence that laws concerning
stem cell research be rooted in respect
for the human embryo as “a human subject
with a well-defined identity.” Lauritzen argues
that the embryo’s status with individual
rights is problematic and less important than
societal concerns about the impact of embryonic
stem cell research. In a February 2004
letter to a campus newspaper, Lauritzen called
Catholic teaching on contraception “misguided”
and argued “the moral necessity of using
condoms to prevent the spread of
HIV/AIDS”.
http://www.jcu.edu/graduate/bulletin/religious.

[Earthdweller]

ping

[MississippiMan]

Professor of RELIGIOUS STUDIES, no less.

Shaking head, wondering when God is gonna decide He's had it with us.

MM

[oldbrowser]

Heresy

[Diago]

Tony,

You must admit, your old school's website has a great list of gay events for this year:

http://www.jcu.edu/studentl/student%20activities/student%20organizations/allies/

 

First Semester Recap:

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy

Movie Night

Washington D.C. AIDS Walk

"The Queer Monologues"

The "Real" Girl Drag Show

Browns vs. Steelers Party

Second Semester Tentative Events:

Gay Film Fest

Day of Silence

Tunnel of Oppression

"The Queer Monologues: The Abridged Classroom Version"

The First National Gay and Lesbian Conference

for Jesuit Universities - at John Carroll

 

 

[Diago]

John Carroll University (OH)
Well, you could always ask Father Glynn what's going on:

Rev. Edward Glynn, S.J., President
20700 N. Park Blvd., University Heights, OH 44118
Phone: (216) 397-1886
E-mail: eglynn@jcu.edu



J. Gerard Sheehan jsheehan@jcu.edu
Director of Public Affairs
216-397-4565

[Emmett McCarthy]

I said that I had gone to a Jesuit school, but not that particular Jesuit school. Anyway, I graduated over 30 years ago.

[shubi]

Good conservative colleges:
Wofford, Furman, Hillsdale, U of S.C.

[Diago]

I almost forgot about the pro-abortion guerrilla girls that appeared at JCU last year, and then appeared at a pro-abortion march in Washington a few days later:

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-religion/1102361/posts




The March for Women

http://www.marchforwomen.org/about/index.php?PHPSESSID=3a8ef758818e77d774d30d7f26fb18b8



Guerrilla Girls On Tour as co-sponsor [Yes, "Guerrilla Girls On Tour" - not just "Guerrilla Girls"]

http://www.marchforwomen.org/cosponsors/list.php

The time is right for a public demonstration of historic size in support of reproductive freedom and justice for all women. Threats to these rights have never been so systematic and coordinated, and the lives and health of women have never faced such peril. On April 25th, in our Nation’s Capitol we march to uphold – Choice, Justice, Access, Health, Abortion, Global and Family Planning.

[narses]

...Flannery said, “I think the Cardinal Newman Society is the closest organization in the Catholic Church to the Taliban. [The Cardinal Newman Society] has used harassment and terrorist tactics to shut down the president’s computer system and to do harm to my department’s office,” Flannery said.

My best friends daughter is very active in the CNS. She'll LOVE this quote. In defense of the idiot Prof, the Society sees themselves (correctly) as part of the Church Militant, they FIGHT for Catholic TRUTH. God Bless them.

[DBeers]

Does the professor possess a mandatum issued by the competent ecclesiastical authority? If so, did he violate his declaration to remain within the full communion of the Catholic Church?

Good points to mention if communiting with the 'competent' Bishop and or University...

USCCB Guidelines Concerning the Academic Mandatum in Catholic Universities (Canon 812)