Posted on 01/25/2008 6:02:55 AM PST by NYer
The two faced clergy stands by and watches the John Kerry family, Kennedy’s and other politicians ignore the church.
Going after a coach would be stupid unless they apply the same rules to the elitist Catholic politicians.
Here’s the only pressure the Archbishop can bring to bear; is this a Catholic institution or not? If not, there’s no need for all these priests, who I believe need his permission to say Mass in the archdiocese.
He can of course instruct priests under his jurisdiction to refuse the sacraments to Majerus. Let’s see how big those balls really are.
MO Ping!
It would be interesting to see how coach Majerus would react to member(s) of his basketball team, in a public forum, directly criticizing his coaching theories and methods.
This man is an idiot. The First Amendment has absolutely no bearing on his relationship with the university or the bishop, neither of which are government entities.
If the bishop and the university, private entities, refuse to let him use their platform to speak his mind, his one and only recourse is to go elsewhere.
It's simple, Ricky Boy:
Go Away, or Shut Up.
“The free exchange of ideas?” Fine. If encouraging sucking broken baby parts out of wombs is an “idea” worth exchanging, then what isn’t? THe school paper should run front page headlines of walrus boy there shoving cheeseburgers down his throat, asking “Should we allow our investment to harm itself?” If someone married Tubby, why not run some “Freely Exchanged Ideas” on her too? God help anyone every shut up for any reason.
What discipline other than dismissal could be considered? If the coach believes in abortion rights then his beliefs are at odds with his employer. Hitting him with a fine or something isn’t going to change those beliefs. If the school considers him wrong for believing as he does then they should dismiss him and find someone else.
What job in the Catholic Church does John Kerry hold?
Oh, yes: He doesn't hold one ... he can't be fired.
Use your brain.
If they back down, they just become another Georgetown.
Surely he will have every liberal and civil libertarian and member of the elite intelligentsia championing the right to free speech and exchange of different ideas. How different that is from Choate School here in CT where Karl Rove is supposed to be the commencement speaker. There are already howls of protest against that. I suspect the school will have to back down. Rove is pure evil, some students say. Well, of course he is far worse than a commencement speaker like, let’s say, Mumia....
So the Catholic Church will have to bear more criticism? Whatever will we do? Coach Majerus is free to exchange any idea he wishes, but while he is employed as a basketball coach for a Jesuit Catholic university, he is a representative of that university, and should uphold that institution's mission.
An employee does not have carte blanche to speak ill of their employer in public settings, while they remain in that same employ.
By the way, after scoring only 20 points against George Washington, in a basketball game earlier this year, someone should reprimand Majerus for that sorry output, alone.
Just like talking about which flavor bagel he prefers.
Fire him.
SI did a profile on him last month. This guy’s a ticking time bomb.
“These beliefs are ingrained in me,” Majerus told the paper. “And my First Amendment right to free speech supersedes anything that the archbishop would order me to do. My dad fought on Okinawa in World War II. My uncle died in World War II. I had classmates die in Vietnam. And it was to preserve our way of life, so people like me could have an opinion.”
This flatulent fatass is an embarrassment to himself, to the university, to the Church, and most of all, to his friends and relatives who died for this country protecting our freedoms.
The idiot can spew all the filth he wants. It’s a free country. But it’s a free country - no Catholic institution should be obligated to hire/retain such an imbecile.
Let’s see if the university has the guts to do the right thing - fire his sorry butt.
Unless you can convince me otherwise.
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