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DePaul gets 'Queer Studies' minor (nation's largest Catholic univ. capitulates to homosexual agenda)
Marquette Tribune ^ | Tuesday, March 7, 2006 | Laura Eppinger

Posted on 03/07/2006 9:53:55 AM PST by presidio9

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To: GreenFreeper
So what does a minor in Queer studies prepare you for?

Priesthood?

21 posted on 03/07/2006 10:04:59 AM PST by wyattearp (The best weapon to have in a gunfight is a shotgun - preferably from ambush.)
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To: presidio9

Why not major in Bestiality with a minor in Abortion? This is absurd for a Catholic university. These administrators either agree with this trend or have no cojones. Either way how would they explain this to the Pope?


22 posted on 03/07/2006 10:05:04 AM PST by Inwoodian
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To: TXBSAFH

Seriously. How long does it take a professor at a Catholic college to wrap up the whole Queer Studies program?
Here it is:
Homosexuality is a grave, or mortal, sin for which you will be condemned to the fires of hell for all eternity.
Done.
Oh, and on a non-theological tangent, it will kill you about 40 times faster than smoking cigarettes, which you can't do in your dorm room, where we do permit you to engage in sinful, damning, illness-spreading homosexuality.
Call us confused.


23 posted on 03/07/2006 10:05:35 AM PST by jjmcgo (Patriarch of the Occident since March 1, 2006)
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To: presidio9

I learned all I needed to know about queers at/in/when __________!


24 posted on 03/07/2006 10:06:15 AM PST by MarineBrat (Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.)
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To: jjmcgo

Yep.


25 posted on 03/07/2006 10:06:40 AM PST by TXBSAFH (Proud Dad of Twins, What Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger!!!!!!)
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To: NYer

FYI


26 posted on 03/07/2006 10:06:49 AM PST by BlessedBeGod (Benedict XVI = Terminator IV)
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To: gondramB

There is nothing wrong with things like "Women's studies" or even "Queer Studies" (just not at a Catholic institution) as a minor. That's part of the experience of a liberal arts education as opposed to a University. The problem is when wingnuts make these subjects their primary course of studies.


27 posted on 03/07/2006 10:06:52 AM PST by presidio9 ("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K Virus -Only without the inconvenient deadline.)
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To: presidio9

A Queer degree prepares one for what profession?


28 posted on 03/07/2006 10:08:42 AM PST by caisson71
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To: presidio9

"There is nothing wrong with things like "Women's studies" or even "Queer Studies" (just not at a Catholic institution) as a minor. That's part of the experience of a liberal arts education as opposed to a University. The problem is when wingnuts make these subjects their primary course of studies"

Good point. I was assuming a full degree.

I know in the physics department at Georgia Tech it didn't cost much for a professor to put together a new concentration or minor. usually just one or two new classes and a collection of existing classes.


29 posted on 03/07/2006 10:09:47 AM PST by gondramB (Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.)
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To: wyattearp
So what does a minor in Queer studies prepare you for?

Priesthood?

Thank you for perpetuating the myth that Catholic priests are perverted child molesters. Your buddies at DU must be very proud.

30 posted on 03/07/2006 10:10:34 AM PST by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: presidio9; OrthodoxPresbyterian; xzins

IMO this is much more egregious than Berkeley's curriculum.

In fact, it borders on satanic.


31 posted on 03/07/2006 10:12:47 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Gordongekko909

It's not just that it's useless, it's academic claptrap. It's not even "studies", it accepts no point of view other than the prevailing one, completely political and if yours is that point of view, no paper will ever be rejected.


32 posted on 03/07/2006 10:13:09 AM PST by AmishDude
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To: mlc9852

It's not clear whether the course entitled "Bareback Mounting" is an elective or a required course. "Catholic" colleges, hell, "Catholic" schools in general really don't exist any more. Today, they're nothing more than expensive private schools with crucifixes out front.


33 posted on 03/07/2006 10:16:10 AM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: presidio9

Oh yes there is something wrong with it. It is academic fraud, pure and simple.


34 posted on 03/07/2006 10:16:32 AM PST by AmishDude
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To: presidio9

"The minor is in response to student demand and also because of an increase in academic demand from faculty to teach the subject"

Academic demand to teach a subject is such a good reason to come up with a major, isn't it? By that standard, we'll get a Liberalism major, a Communism major, well, I can't think of any more since the rest of other useless majors are already there. Do you think that if enough people want to teach anti-semitism, a major would be created?


35 posted on 03/07/2006 10:17:12 AM PST by winner3000
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To: AmishDude
It's not even "studies", it accepts no point of view other than the prevailing one, completely political...

That's just it - it's not academic but political. It's a statement made by liberal elites that they are more worldly and educated than the Church that effectively employs them. The Left continually looks for ways to attack such conservative institutions.

36 posted on 03/07/2006 10:19:53 AM PST by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

Grow up, jackass! Any time somebody says something you don't like, you brand them a democrat. What an A$$.

If the Catholic church would actually do something to remove pedophiles and homosexuals from the priesthood, you might have something to complain about. However, they wont get rid of them until they have multiple molestation complaints. They Catholic church is complicit in the pedophilic behavior of these perverts. Until they do something about it, you're wrong and I'm right.


37 posted on 03/07/2006 10:20:30 AM PST by wyattearp (The best weapon to have in a gunfight is a shotgun - preferably from ambush.)
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To: presidio9

Well! Not only a new minor but a new acronymn! We all know what LGBT means. But now, evidently, we have LGTBQ.

It's really a trend-breaking innovation. Notice that the new chair has shuffled the middle initials as well as added a fifth initial. Does that mean that, in his considered opinion, Transgenders are now more politically significant than Bisexuals?

You learn something new every day.


38 posted on 03/07/2006 10:22:17 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: presidio9
The only new addition is the minor's mandatory introductory course, offered for the first time this quarter...

I don't even want to know what that might involve.

39 posted on 03/07/2006 10:24:33 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (Just say "No" to Judy Baar Topinka)
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To: Cicero

St. Paul would be thrilled to learn of this evolved curriculum (GAG!).


40 posted on 03/07/2006 10:24:48 AM PST by Beckwith (The liberal press has picked sides & they've sided with the Islamofascists)
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