When do we want `em? Now! ........................ On second thought, do we really want these people reproducing?
Posted on 10/22/2014 12:06:15 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Hopelessly confused about how the Catholic Church and leaders at Jesuit universities view birth control, and blissfully unaware that a 36-count pack of Trojan-enz lubricated, latex condoms can be purchased at Amazon.com for just $13.97, student activists at Fordham University are demanding that the school provide free condoms on campus.
The activists at Fordham, which bills itself as “the Jesuit University of New York,” belong to a group called S.A.G.E.S. (The acronym stands for Sex and Gender Equity and Safety.) On its Twitter page, SAGES has an image of an erect condom.
In a Change.org petition, the group proclaims that a lack of access to free condoms is gravely inhumane.
“We believe that the lack of access to condoms and other essential contraceptives as well as sexual health services that promote the well-being of students’ minds, bodies, and spirits on campus is part of a troubling pattern of injustice within our campus and throughout the country that permeates every facet of our lives,” the petition declares.
The petition argues that the public display of free condoms at the private, Catholic university is necessary “to foster an environment in which students are encouraged to talk about sex in healthy and safe ways.”
They also demand “free and confidential” testing for sexually-transmitted diseases and, of course, transgender housing.
The Change.org petition has garnered only 218 supporters as of late Monday night, but SAGES activists are working to gather many more by hanging flyers all over campus and giving out free condoms at school events.
“The desire to go to an institution of learning should not mean that you have to sacrifice your health to do so,” said SAGES organizer Rachel Field, according to ThinkProgress.
“The UN has stated that birth control is a human right,” the senior added. “Why are we being denied human rights at Fordham?”
It’s not clear if Field realizes that condoms and other forms of birth control are readily and cheaply available all over New York City.
As ThinkProgress explains, Fordham’s birth control policy allows students to obtain birth control pills on campus, but only “for the treatment of an existing medical condition accompanied by supporting documentation.”
Field complained that she can’t get a Depo-Provera birth control shot on campus, so she had to find a doctor among the thousands of doctors in New York City to provide one.
ThinkProgress also recalls the plight of Sandra Fluke, the former student at Jesuit-affiliated Georgetown University Law Center, who testified about the contraceptive needs of co-eds before Congressional Democrats. Fluke is currently running for state senator in California. (RELATED: Of Course The Word ‘SLUT’ Appears In Candidate Sandra Fluke ‘Meet & Greet’ Press Release)
In March, the American Civil Liberties Union vaguely threatened to intercede against Boston College, another Jesuit school, if it didn’t allow condom-loving activists to hand out free condoms on campus. (RELATED: Boston College, ACLU Spar Over Underground Condom Railroad On Campus)
“BC is saying that they’re a private university, so we can do what we want,” an ACLU attorney claimed. “But that’s actually not true.”
Some people are just idiots
Let’s go to the Catholic school and hook up!
DANG!
I agree, why not assign responsibility to people for sex. I mean seriously, if you want to be safe during sexual behavior, why not e responsible and buy whatever you need to take care of regarding it.
I got a question I put out there
Did anybody tell that this is Cathoic school you have obey their rules
HELLO you pay for it
It is morality clause in the contract RIGHT???
“And what’s with all this Catholic stuff on campus? Is that even legal?”
I can’t think of a better post to this article. Some people are just idiots.
Even atheists want to send their kids to Christian schools because the education is superior to most public schools -
and they’re surprised that they have to abide by the very rules that make the school superior?
Oh okay I wonder who are these offended students
The stupid ... it BURNS!
I wonder if any “journalists” ever talk to these people’s parents. “How do you feel about your daughter’s screwing around without protection because she’s too cheap to pay for condoms? And how much tuition are you paying?”
Buy Your Own Crap, it should be a law
When do we want `em? Now! ........................ On second thought, do we really want these people reproducing?
Wotta coinkydink....
I’m in favor of them being expelled for lying on their college applications. Each and every one of them made claims about being able to handle the course load and graduate from Fordham. By publicly showing that they are so stupid that they cannot even manage to acquire condoms for less than $0.50/each, they’ve proven that they are liars (and damned stupid ones, at that).
No comments regarding their morality, nor the hypocrisy of attending a Catholic university and coming out about this in public.
Full disclosure: I’m Jewish, but attended Jesuit Georgetown University in the late ‘70s through early ‘80s. Yes, plenty of people fooled around, but no one did it too openly out of respect for themselves, each other and the university. NO ONE did anything this assinine.
There's a certain wisdom in this question.
Similar to a question I saw on a blog about when those on the left side of the IQ Bell Curve will understand what Ebola is going to do to the world, and then begin to prepare: my question was, "Do we really want the low-IQ types and the gibsmedats surviving in large numbers?"
I could go for permanently sterilizing all of them.
People like this deliberately apply to go to Catholic institutions so they can stir-up trouble.
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