Notre Dame Calls Cops On School-Authorized Table Promoting Traditional Marriage

The Daily Caller ^ | 12:05 PM 05/01/2014 | Eric Owens, Education Editor

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Members of a group that promotes traditional heterosexual marriage say school officials at the University of Notre Dame called the police after group members set up a table on campus — even though “an officially recognized on-campus student group” had received permission for the display.

The cops rushed to the scene after they got the call from school officials at the Roman Catholic school and quickly slapped a “cease and desist” order on the conservative group, Tradition Family Property Student Action, reports Campus Reform.

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The current president of Notre Dame is still:

Father John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.

The Holy Cross priests/brothers run Notre Dame.

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They should have told the TFP folks this immediately, and maybe they should have told them the procedures for a table at Notre Dame.

Other articles on this, to my knowledge, did not have this information...

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The only article that I found that has those details is:

Outside group protests gay marriage

Note that the title of this article is more a defense of Gay Marriage and comes from a Notre Dame newspaper.

They spin against Traditional Marriage, and they list all the violations by this group.

There may be TFP Student Action members at Notre Dame, and the group should have had them man the table.

But I don't understand why supporting traditional marriage is a protest of Gay Marriage -- unless Gay Marriage is something that should be promoted at a Catholic University.

[prof.h.mandingo]

I was polite but I did not hesitate to tell him that I would never send my grandchildren to Notre Dame or any other Catholic lite university. There are still real Catholic schools out there.
Remember we got into the fix we are in by being polite and not standing up for what we believe in. We just let ourselves be pushed around and tried to “get along” with everyone. Well I am drawing the line. This far and no further.

[drjimmy]

That article is from the student newspaper at Notre Dame, which is editorially independent from the university. I saw all of the other articles about this incident, and the reason most of them don't mention this information should be obvious, since they are taking the TFP Student Action point of view.

The article in Campus Reform linked to from the Daily Caller article actually has a quote from the Notre Dame spokesman that explains why the group was booted. John Ritchie is being disingenuous when he says he doesn't understand why. The whole "having a table" vs. "sitting at a table" is a red herring, since the distinction under university policy involves "who" is sitting at that table.

[cookcounty]

"Is it too much to hope that if not the Pope of Rome himself, then at least the local ordinary, will call the administration to account?"

Notre Dame has become a joke, even by secular university standards....

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John Ritchie is being dishonest on this point, and I would agree with you.

They should not be trying to cause media attention when they are at fault.

Though I am a strong supporter and advocate of Traditional Marriage, and other thing cannot be defined in terms of Marriage.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Satan cackles with glee.