Posted on 05/10/2017 10:08:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I was about to dip a nugget in some Chick-fil-A Sauce the other day when I received an urgent message on my phone.
“Student Groups Shut Down Chick-fil-A Proposal,” one headline blared. “Catholic University Caves to LGBT Pressure, Rejects Chick-fil-A,” screamed another.
A cavalcade of anti-chicken headlines blurted from my phone – but the most succinct came from Food and Wine magazine: “Fordham University Rejects Chick-fil-A after LGBT Student Concerns.”
However incredulous it may have been, the Jesuits had indeed banished the Chick-fil-A cows.
As I pondered that reality, I nearly choked on a delicious, hand-spun Chick-fil-A Icedream milkshake topped off with whipped cream and one crucial cherry.
Fordham’s Rainbow Alliance took great offense over plans to install a Chick-fil-A in the campus dining hall. The LGBT group had a laundry list of complaints, but they still have their feathers ruffled over an incident that occurred back in 2012.
That was the year Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy told a Baptist newspaper that he believed in the biblical definition of marriage.
Mr. Cathy’s comments sparked “The Great Poultry War of 2012.”
Fierce critics accused the family-owned restaurant chain of all sorts of heinous behavior. One elected lawmaker accused the Cathy family of peddling “hate chicken.”
In spite of the vicious attacks by the mainstream media and the militant LGBT chicken-haters, the restaurant chain continued to provide delicious food served with cheerful attitudes.
As a matter of fact, Chick-fil-A graciously offered to collaborate with Fordham’s Rainbow Alliance – an invitation that was rejected.
“We’re not going to partner with an institution, a corporation that has so strongly supported other institutions that work to destabilize and demolish movements for queer equity,” Rainbow Alliance co-president Renata Francesco told the Fordham Observer.
Such childish insolence has become the norm on university campuses these days.
The Fordham Observer reports that other student groups, including the United Student Government and the Residence Hall Association, also objected to the campus Chick-fil-A.
The Rainbow Alliance said they were “very happy with the decision.”
“Part of me is hopeful that they’ll start taking this attitude of listening to queer student and queer voices, because there are so many on this campus and just in life,” Francesco told the newspaper.
It seems LGBT students are still perturbed because the Catholic school is not kowtowing to “queer issues” – most notably “the hesitation and denial to create trans-inclusive spaces.”
I’m not exactly sure what a trans-inclusive space means – but whatever.
So, there you have it, folks. Chick-fil-A has been banished from campus, the LGBT students won the day, and the anti-poultry bigots at Fordham University have been spared the indignity of suffering through the throes of a raging microaggression at the mere presence of a waffle fry.
“False headline. Fordham is a private, independent research university, not governed by the Archdiocese of New York or the Society of Jesus for almost 50 years. Though they still have some Jesuit, um, residue, they have been governed by an independent lay board since 1969.”
From the Fordham University website:
We’re a Jesuit, Catholic university. Our spirit comes from the nearly 500-year history of the Jesuits. It’s the spirit of full-hearted engagement—with profound ideas, with communities around the world, with injustice, with beauty, with the entirety of the human experience.
https://www.fordham.edu/info/20057/about
Who is BCM?
“I’m sure this would have pained BCM, who was a graduate of Fordham Law.”
Who is BCM?
Battalion Commander John Moran FDNY. A notable NYC FReeper. Was in the North Tower on 9/11.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/539734/posts
See 44
From the Wikipedia link
“In 1969, the board of trustees was reorganized to include a majority of nonclerical members, which officially made the university an independent institution”
I did not doubt your statement about 1969. I wondered how Fordham can still claim to be Catholic. It almost seems like false representation.
For instance, back when Obama was chosen to receive his honorary degree from Notre Dame, a bunch of us FReepers drove ourselves crazy trying to dig out who held the real reins of power at ND. They have a convoluted relationship with the Holy Cross Fathers, but neither the Order nor the Archdiocese controls them, neither financially, canonically, nor legally according to their own constitution and by-laws.
They have a Board of Trustees and a Board of Directors and all manner of overlapping bureaucracies. What it comes down to, is an entrenched Old Boys' Network accountable to nobody.
See #48.
Sicker, actually.
Governance by a lay board doesn’t necessarily mean that it has ceased being a juridic person (or at least property of a juridic person) under the authority of the Archdiocese. To be truly independent, the Jesuits would have had to alienate it first (with the proper permission of the Archdiocese and the Holy See).
That said, I’m not surprised at the headline given that most if not all of the historic American Jesuit universities have merely a worn-out Catholic veneer.
With rising societal and collegial insanity, coupled with outrageous tuition fees, there should be a market for ONLINE conservative Christian colleges these days. I know I would never fork over hard earned money, or go into debt, to attend these insane asylums.
As far as I know, there are no governing legal links now between Catholic colleges/ universities and the dioceses in which they are located or their founding religious orders. If there are any exceptions, they are vanishingly few.
All a bishop can do to a seriously wayward institution, is to rebuke it in public, and to have it delisted from the annual Kenedy Directory. See Manhattanville. That’s about it.
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