"Whatchoo say?"
Posted on 05/10/2005 5:51:10 AM PDT by NYer
Boston College administrators have agreed to change the school's statement of nondiscrimination to make it more welcoming to gay students and employees, but the revision stops short of prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
The policy changes were agreed on after weeks of meetings between BC's general counsel, two high-ranking student affairs officials, and student leaders. Jack Dunn, a spokesman for the Catholic university, said the compromise was drafted last week and is expected to become policy after further internal review.
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"Whatchoo say?"
But the revised policy also makes clear that BC will comply with antidiscrimination laws ''while reserving its lawful rights where appropriate to take actions designed to promote the Jesuit, Catholic principles that sustain its mission and heritage."
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BC is about as Catholic as Frank, Kerry and Kennedy. The 3 degenerates they elect time after stinking time.
I wonder why they don't worrry about what most business recruiters worry about -- college students, across the board, can't read, write, spell or pass a drug test.
Religious colleges excepted here. Those students might be able to pass the drug test.
''while reserving its lawful rights where appropriate to take actions designed to promote the Jesuit, Catholic principles that sustain its mission and heritage."
Where is the Spanish Inquisition when you REALLY need them??
Give me your poor, your tired, your rump-rangers, your transgendered hermaphrodite sexually confused.
I'm not Catholic but I heard years ago (15) that BC was a Catholic school in name only. Lots of hard partying and more..
love it.
"Michael Yaksich, director of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues for BC's student government."
Would love to hear his views on Incest and Polygamy. They are consenting adults too.
I haven't considered Mass. part of the US for quite some time now. This is one more reason why.
Let's not lump hermaphrodites in there. Those people have enough troubles as it is.
That kind of language?
Tear down Gasson Hall and build an abortion clinic.
So why is that a big deal? Because the failure to affirm that the inclination is disordered could lead students to conclude that the homosexual lifestyle itself is not disordered and is therefore a legitimate alternative, prohibited only by the meanness of an arbitrary Church.
This inference is strengthened by the solicitude shown by Boston College to those with homosexual inclinations, beyond that shown to students afflicted with other disordered inclinations. Boston College reportedly participated, rightly, in the national Eating Disorders Awareness Week. The College Student Health center reportedly offers "smoking cessation programs to all members of the campus community who desire them." To treat an inclination to smoking as a disorder is politically correct. To do so with the homosexual inclination is not. This disparity reflects the reality that the de facto religion of Boston College is political correctness.
Ex Corde Ecclesiae, the Apostolic Constitution on Catholic Universities, lists as one of the "essential characteristics" of the Catholic college or university: "Fidelity to the Christian message as it comes to us through the Church." It would be contrary to that "Christian message" for Boston College to host an event that portrayed any disordered activity, such as excessive drinking or shoplifting, as a good lifestyle, even if the event included a panel to discuss whether those activities were really good. A Catholic university knows that they are morally wrong, It should not sponsor a program that presents them as debatably moral activities. Nor should it do so with homosexual activity. Moreover, a Catholic university knows that the inclination to any disordered act is itself disordered. It should not mislead its students by omission of that truth.
The 1986 Letter to Bishops, approved by John Paul II, said, "[D]eparture from the Church's teaching or silence about it . . . is neither caring nor pastoral. Only what is true can ultimately be pastoral. The neglect of the Church's position prevents homosexual men and women from receiving the care they need and deserve."
Many, many students face a lifetime of struggle with disorders, whether they are eating disorders, drinking disorders, or sexual disorders. What they have a right to --- especially at a Catholic institution --- is help in conquering their disorders --- not affirming them.
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Last time I visited BC, they were showing the Vagina Monologues.
I attended "Catholic" Fordham University. More partying and fornication than Rome under Caligula. I don't seem to remember any details for some reason...
I like to joke that I have a sister or cousin who has been to just about every Catholic college east of Milwaukee. Which ones are really Catholic and which ones are in name only? Myself, I am a Catholic University of America alum.
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