If you have paid four years of tuition, have studied hard to pass your courses, and have earned your degree, you think that it’s any clown’s “right” to turn your graduation ceremony on a private campus into a “circus,” as Randall Terry said he planned?
Your argument sounds a lot like the leftists who claim that military research grants or ROTC programs allow them to disrupt universities. I think my view is a lot more in line with actual property rights than yours.
BTW, I support the right to life more strongly than you, as I support it fully, including its corresponding freedoms.
Graduation is a very passing thing.
It is a day.
In the words of a good Priest: A Wedding is a Day, a Marriage SHOULD BE a LIFETIME!
Take the analogy further: A graduation is a DAY, CATHOLIC EDUCATION should support LIFE!
Your concerns are TRIVIAL compared to the travesty that Fr. Jenkins and Notre Dame have become.
You are silly.
What would you think of a “Catholic” University that gave an “honorary degree” to:
Stalin?
Hitler?
Pol Pot leaders?
David Duke?
Again, your concerns are trivial.
You show cowardice, in the very face of evil, and you will only invite MORE evil!
Whatever small sacrifice we ask, of the good, decent people at ND is small and trivial compared to the HUGE sacrifice we ask of our military, every day.
The issues at stake, in this battle, are EVERY BIT as important as anything our military fights for, every day.
Also, the DETERENT effect, of this protest, might well stop other “Catholic” Universities from considering similar treachery.
The ringmaster of this circus is the president of Notre Dame. In fact there would not even be a circus if he had kiboshed the honorary degree that the university will bestow upon a man who is on the record as favoring infanticide. It's as simple as that. He uncorked the bottle.
RE: Your tagline: Paul Revere was no doubt guilty of disturbing the peace.