Posted on 12/16/2004 7:55:27 AM PST by concernedAmerican1
TFP Student Action Launches Protest
Scandalizing students nationwide, 518 colleges and universities intend to allow performances of the lewd "V***** Monologues" play on their campuses, a piece replete with sexual encounters, lust, graphic descriptions of masturbation and lesbian behavior.
Perhaps the most disturbing fact is that dozens of prominent Catholic universities have permitted this play on campus year after year during the months of February and March, including Georgetown University, University of Notre Dame, Saint Louis University, Saint Francis University, Fordham University, Loyola Marymount University and others.
It is difficult to fathom how any Catholic institution of higher learning would give open forum to this play, which explicitly condones mortal sin, and promotes the corrosive agenda of the sexual revolution on campus.
You Can Join the Protest
TFP Student Action has launched its protest against the corporate sponsors of V-Day, the group that issues licenses for the "V***** Monologues" play. To sign and send your e-protest, just visit www.tfp.org/sa
"Our next step will be to contact Catholic university officials where the "V***** Monologues" is scheduled and ask them to immediately cancel the immoral play," said TFP Student Action director John Ritchie. " We hope to generate one million protest messages with this campaign."
Protests are effective. In fact, 16 Catholic colleges canceled the play earlier this year because of protests. Hundreds of protest letters, e-mails, and phone calls flooding into university offices can cause public relations nightmares for college presidents. TFP applauds the university officials that banned the play.
Concerned Catholic Parents
Catholic parents with children at these institutions are deeply distraught. Many assume their tuition goes towards a good "Catholic" education, that somehow guarantees their children's formation in matters of Faith and morals. However, by allowing events such as the lustful "V***** Monologues" on Catholic campuses, administration officials send mixed messages to students, and jeopardize students' Faith.
Bishop Criticizes Production
Bishop John M. D'Arcy of the Fort Wayne-South Bend diocese, Indiana, criticized the "V***** Monologues" in a two-page statement published earlier this year. He said it should have never played at the University of Notre Dame. "The play violates the truth about women, the truth about sexuality, the truth about male and female and the truth about the human body."
Bishop D'Arcy continues: "Freedom in the Catholic tradition, and even in the American political tradition, is not the right to do anything. Freedom in the academy is always subject to a particular discipline. It is never an absolute Freedom in the Catholic tradition is not the right to do this rather than that. That would be an entirely superficial idea of freedom Freedom is the capacity to choose the good."
Will Catholic colleges listen?
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You can now send your e-protest to the corporate sponsors of V-Day by clicking here. V-Day 2005 sponsors include BARNEYS NEW YORK, Bobbi Brown, Dramatist Play Service, Eileen Fisher, Hearst, Lifetime Television, Luna, Marie Claire, Tampax, Time Inc. and Vosges Haut Chocolate.
The success of this effort depends on how many people join this peaceful protest. To forward this message to your friends, please click here. Thank you for defending morality. www.tfp.org/sa
I think it's important to distinguish between vile and sacred.
A good test to learn the difference is to ask yourself: Should my 11-year-old daughter play in the nude in my front yard so passers by can admire her beautiful body? If not, is it because her body is vile and dirty? No, it's because her body is sacred.
"A good test to learn the difference is to ask yourself: Should my 11-year-old daughter play in the nude in my front yard so passers by can admire her beautiful body? If not, is it because her body is vile and dirty? No, it's because her body is sacred."
Sacred? I don't think so. Sacred is a word to be used carefully, in my opinion.
No, she should quite obviously not parade around in the yard naked. That's very dangerous, since there are dangerous people in the world.
Our bodies are not sacred. They are our bodies. They are flesh and blood. They are precious to us, of course, because we require them to live, to reproduce, and for other reasons. Sacred, however, is not a word I'd use to describe them.
No, I suppose that, as a self-described atheist, you probably wouldn't. However, the original poster likely would.
1 Corinthians 3
16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
I know almost nothing about it. I had the idea that's a lot of feminist, man-hate rant.
What IS it?
I don't know if I'd consider a vagina anymore sacred than any other body part... Isn't the woman herself more than just the sum of her parts, after all?
And how does referring to a vagina make the body less than a temple? That's the name for that body part. It's no different than a nose or a mouth. If the body is a temple, then the names of its body parts cannot be obscene.
"I don't know if I'd consider a vagina anymore sacred than any other body part... Isn't the woman herself more than just the sum of her parts, after all?"
You said it better than I did. Probably a lot of the people on this thread don't even know what part the vagina actually is, or that it's completely internal.
But, that's beside the point. I think we should just refer to all those naughty bits as "down there" and be done with it. Feh!
You're right it probably doesn't, depending on the context. In the context of the V. Monologues, it's turned into a political weapon and official center of man hatred. IMO, not a terribly sacred nor respectful usage.
I think it's more in how the word is used. The a$$-hole is a part of the body too; the disrespectful uses of the word are myriad.
It's a woman sitting on stage with a microphone, talking about female sexuality, abuse of women, lesbian seduction of minor girls, all sorts of uplifting stuff.
Here's the link to an excerpt from their website, if you'd like a sample.
Also, there's an enlightening Q&A section with such gems as these from Eve Ensler, the creator:
Women.com: What's your advice to mothers who are raising daughters?
Ensler: I would tell them to love their daughters' vaginas, and to really encourage that love. If they see their daughter masturbating, never make her feel dirty or bad. And I would encourage mothers to encourage their daughters to talk about their sexuality, to be proud of their sexuality, to draw pictures of it, paint images, write poems, erect monuments.
Women.com: Who has inspired you as performer?
Ensler: Tina Turner. I love Tina Turner. She's a woman who fully inhabits her vagina, and when I see her, I see that it's possible.
(Excerpt from here.)
I am shocked.
it's about a talking tw*t.
Man... that line would sound funny out of context. Well, ok, it sounds funny IN context, too.
Mulva?
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