Posted on 01/27/2008 1:10:52 PM PST by presidio9
Sure he has a right to be heard. But first he has to resign his job at a Catholic college.
“Majerus is not pro-abortion, but he is pro-choice.” Sure, buddy. Big distinction there. The difference between a dead baby and a dead baby.
The irony of the title -
And the Church standing by its beliefs is a problem?
Singing St Rick’s praises for taking a stand in favor of the right to murder life in the womb? What a schmuck.
And we thought the Inquisition ended in the 15th century.
The Inquisition is like catnip to ignorant liberals.
Nobody's threatening torture here; question the belief of a Church employee is legitimate.
After a hyperbolic comment like that, I would fear more the the author than the Catholic Church.
That means his players can use steroids, HG, drugs, whatever in ‘their own body’?
He’s not rejiggering his hugh and series beliefs for anyone, yo!
God Bless Archbishop Burke!! U.S. Army Retired |
This guy coaches basketball right?
Imagine how he would feel if a group of players came onto the court and used the rules of Aussie Rules Football to play against them. It kind of works like basketball, it’s a game of possession and not territory. There is a traveling penalty, they dribble, very close to the same game. But it is still Aussie Rules. This guy would have a hissy fit and tell them that they couldn’t play that way.
The church is playing basketball. He needs to stick with the rules.
Ridiculous. The Archbishop is not questioning his rights as an American to free speech. He's free to run his mouth on abortion in private life as a non-Catholic. As a Catholic and an official of a Catholic Jesuit university, he has to observe Catholic teaching and the moral law. The Archbishop is fully within his rights and the rights of the Church to admonish heretics for public immorality and to excommunicate them.
He has the right to be heard.Bishop Burke has the right to toss him out of the Church.Seems fair to me.
Excommunicate this flaming a$$hole.
They don't hire ignoramus fatso coaches to be public spokesmen on moral controversies. It showed bad judgment, bad manners, poor form, and a lack of common sense to throw himself into a public controversy about abortion. It's not a free speech issue. That he and his handlers continue to play this out like a martyr for free speech is extreme bad taste.
Basketball coaches are not hired to be public advocates for abortion. If he feels that strongly about it he should resign and get another job at a non-Catholic university. That he persists in this unrepentant is grotesque.
It is a very weird breed of liberal nutjob that gets upset and worked up enough to vocalize pro-abortionism in Catholic venues. That's usually a flag for some kind of personal issue.
No, he did not. Majerus works for a Catholic university, and if he speaks out publicly against church teaching, the university and/or the archdiocese has a right to discipline him.
It's just common sense, good manners, good judgment, and professional ethics not to do what he did when you work for a Catholic institution. This is a nutjob with some kind of peculiar personal problem, most likely.
Very interesting sidebar to this controversy is the fact that SLU went to the State of Missouri for Tax Increment Financing for the new basketball arena. In the subsequent lawsuit, it argued, successfully, that it was not governed by any religious organization. Therefore, if SLU disciplines Coach Majerus at the behest of the Archbishop they may put that TIF in jeopardy.
Fr. Biondi, actually believes himself to be above most authority, so he won’t do anyting.
Just one reason to not vote for Rudy the RINO
Why he got this bone-headed idea, who knows. Did one of the players on the team impregnate a girlfriend and he's trying to ease his conscience?
No coach at a Catholic university, in his right mind, would take this on. No image consultant would advise this. It's a wild U-turn. It's stupid. Off the radar. Did he have a fall recently? Maybe it's time for an MRI.
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