Good, I am glad that we agree:
1. NDU’s actions are indefensible from a Catholic perspective.
2. Private property owners have a constitutional and moral right to decide which demonstrators are allowed on their private property and which demonstrators will be treated as trespassers.
3. The free-speech rights of demonstrators end at the private property line.
No, free speech rights don’t end at a private property line.
Of course private property rights allow the owner to decide who is on his property.
But the public has a right to an expectation that such rights won’t be enforced with arbitrary arrest and the application of physical force when it comes to what are normally areas which are wide open to the public.
Notre Dame created much confusion in this regard by the extremely liberally biased, ham-handed way they handled these protests.