Posted on 03/07/2006 2:37:20 PM PST by topher
Professor Lies to Get Pro-Abortion Group into Catholic College
By Gudrun Schultz
BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A professor and a group of abortion activists at Boston College resorted to deception this week in order to bypass school officials and hold an abortion-rights panel discussion on university grounds.
The Women’s Health Initiative, an abortion rights group that is not recognized by the university, initially gained permission to hold the panel, called “The Future of Women’s Rights” by telling university officials that they were members of the College Democrats.
When the college discovered the deception, they withdrew permission for the panel.
BC sociology professor Charles Derber, who told the Boston Globe he supported the Women’s Health Initiative “in the name of academic freedom,’ then told the College he needed campus meeting space for the sociology department. The event took place that Tuesday afternoon.
Boston College does not recognize abortion rights groups. The university is a Jesuit school, and over 70 percent of the student body is Catholic. The school has a strong element of opposition to abortion, with at least three campus groups dedicated to supporting life. Last week was “Respect Life Week,” with students participating in a series of vigils against abortion.
Organizers of the abortion rights panel admitted that they misrepresented themselves as members of the College Democrats because they knew their group would not get permission to use campus space.
“The students from the Women’s Heath Initiative, in essence, were being duplicitous in trying to sponsor a prochoice event at a Catholic institution,” Jack Dunn, the school spokesman, told the Boston Globe.
The abortion rights panel discussion, which drew some 80 students, featured the public affairs director for Planned Parenthood, along with three academics who are abortion rights supporters.
In December 2005, the university refused to permit a campus dance sponsored by a gay and lesbian group. The school said allowing the dance would be advocating homosexuality in opposition to the teaching of the Catholic Church.
To express support to Boston College, contact:
Academic Vice President and Dean of Faculties Cutberto Garza at bert.garza@bc.edu
or
Administrative assistant to BC president William Leahy, SJ denise.williams.1@bc.edu
Maybe people should disrupt the professor's classes (people not in the class) since the professor does not believe in obeying the rules.
Wow, a college that actually tries to uphold religious standards? Amazing.
These people support eugenics and infanticide and someone's surprised that they'd stoop to telling lies?
LET'S GO EAGLES!
Ping for later.
As a Catholic as well as a graduate of Jesuit schools, I'm encouraged by this action on the part of BC. Just encouraged, mind you, not convinced.
Boston College is a mixed bag. They have had a lot of leftists and dissenters on their faculty over the past few decades.
Evidently they are being pressured by their students, and perhaps by the new bishop, to mend their ways.
That won't be easy, because they have tenured quite a few faculty who, like this sociology professor, don't belong on a Catholic campus. And most of the Jesuits these days are losers.
Academic Vice President and Dean of Faculties Cutberto Garza at: bert.garza@bc.edu
or
Administrative assistant to BC president William Leahy, SJ: denise.williams.1@bc.edu
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Archbishop O'Malley will shortly become Cardinal O'Malley - on the Feast of the Annunciation.
It is not an accident that he will become a Cardinal on that day - he is a pro-life leader - though Archbishop Chaput of Denver will be the first to tell you that he has a lot of problems in Boston.
It is just this week that (THANK GOD) 7 members of Catholic Charities resigned that were pro-homosexual. These members of the board of directors of the Catholic Charities of Boston wanted to support children adopted by homosexual parents. Archbishop O'Malley and others refused to allow this.
So now there is hope for Catholic Charities of Boston with so many rotten board of directors quitting...
Sorry to get off subject, but O'Malley has had his hands full since he took over the Boston Archdiocese...
BOSTON BISHOPS MAY BE POISED TO REGAIN CONTROL OVER CONTROVERSIAL CATHOLIC CHARITIES
And I guess it was late last week, not this week for this story:
Date/Source - 3-March-2006 -- Catholic News Agency
Yes, I saw that story posted here earlier. Very encouraging.
I have a good friend in Massachusetts who is a good and faithful Catholic but a liberal Catholic, as so many are after years of bad education and brainwashing. She thinks Archbishop O'Malley is divisive and tyrannical--because that's the line the liberals are taking.
I hope and pray that he will succeed in this terribly difficult job. I don't know what the problem was with Cardinal Law. I met him personally several times, he was a friend of my Aunt's while she was alive, he seemed to be sound theologically, he had a reputation as a conservative, yet he was responsible for some really horrible decisions. Cardinal-to-be O'Malley will have his work cut out for him.
Academic Vice President and Dean of Faculties Cutberto Garza at: bert.garza@bc.edu
or
Administrative assistant to BC president William Leahy, SJ: denise.williams.1@bc.edu
I graduated BC in 1968. The alumni magazine is so far left I can't stand reading it.
Although BC still requires 2 theology courses in its core curriculum, students can choose from only 8, 2 of which are "Person and Social Responsibility I & II" and "Perspectives on Western Culture I & II". Not too theological!
BC also requires 1 course in Cultural Diversity. Students can choose from 235 "cultural diversity" courses, including "Suffering, Politics, and Liberation", "History and Development of Racism", "Global Sociology", "Asian American Gender Issues", "Protest Politics in Latin America", "Race, Gender, and Sexuality", "Revolutionary Cuba: History and Politics", and "The Vision Quest, A Multicultural Approach to Self Discovery".
Very un-Catholic. The students and their families (paying the hefty BC tuition)
are owed an apology and refund.
What a disgrace...
Time to revamp the curriculum...
Thanks for the ping. I just emailed the article to my husband, a Boston College alumnus.
Hats off to Boston College. I'm glad to see at least ONE Catholic college standing up for Catholic education standards.
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