Posted on 05/18/2003 5:29:50 PM PDT by jwalburg
PHILADELPHIA - About one in every eight graduates walked out of Sunday's commencement at Saint Joseph's University before the keynote address by Sen. Rick Santorum, who recently infuriated gay groups and others with derogatory remarks about homosexual behavior.
Santorum, the Senate's third-ranking Republican, didn't mention the walkout or the controversy directly.
"We are all called to love one another, even people we disagree with, even people who hate us for what we believe," he said.
Students were offered an opportunity to leave before Santorum was introduced to receive an honorary degree and make his speech, and about 100 graduates walked out amid competing boos and applause.
Some students had urged the Jesuit university to rescind Santorum's invitation after he likened gay behavior to bigamy, polygamy, incest and adultery in an April 7 interview with The Associated Press. He later said he intended the remarks as a legal analysis and didn't intend to comment on individual lifestyles.
"Senator Santorum and I are at completely opposite ends of the spectrum," said graduate Sara Foglesong, among those who walked out. "I am not incestuous. I am not a bigamist. I just happen to be bisexual. It offended me."
Across the street, Dennis Heffernan led a group of three counter-demonstrators. "I belong to a pro-life group, and Rick is a pro-life person," said Hoffman, of Philadelphia.
I sure hope that with this post we can agree that this topic has been exhausted.
Please?!
Truly. Explain rationally to me, if you can, why homosexuality would be morally superior to say, bigamy, or say, consensual incest. What exactly elevates it in your mind above the practices Santorum named? Certainly you are aware that in many places in the present world, as well as many times in the past bigamy was normative. You cannot be oblivious to the fact that incest is "often" practised between consenting adults.
When you actually have a logical argument in place of your emotional attachments, then come back. Santorum made a valid point that's been distorted for the benefit of establishing [or maintaining] a special place for one particular sexual deviance at the expense of all others. But just becuase it's more popular, that doesn't lend it any moral weight.
Jesuits have always had a reputation for being conservative, but since Vatican II many have largely chosen the easier path of a more “liberal” theology. Jesuits Colleges may still be run by Jesuits, but you’ll probably find more atheists than Jesuits teaching in them – and this was true in 1974 when I graduated from Loyola College in Baltimore, a Jesuit school.
I believe the Pius X Society adheres to the traditional beliefs and liturgy of the Church such as the Latin Mass.
Today's catholic universities are hardly Catholic; in fact they're a disgrace!<.p> By 2005, although classes are beginning in makeshift buildings this fall, Ave Maria College will be completed outside of Immokolee, Florida.
This will be a true Catholic college that will be in strict communion with Rome and won't have pro-abortion or homosexual agenda proponents speaking on campus ever!
The idea of a tradition Catholic school is the dream of Tom Monaghan, CEO of Dominos who believes saving a soul is more important than even pizzas and is indeed "putting his money where his heart is...."
Notre Dame, Georgetown, St. Joseph University, et al have become dens of leftist and immoral activism and it's good to know that parents will have a choice.
Right-o, officer. Nothing to see here. Oh, really?
FECAL SEX About 80% of gays (see Table) admit to licking and/or inserting their tongues into the anus of partners and thus ingesting medically significant amounts of feces. Those who eat or wallow in it are probably at even greater risk. In the diary study,5 70% of the gays had engaged in this activity--half regularly over 6 months. Result? --the "annual incidence of hepatitis A in...homosexual men was 22 percent, whereas no heterosexual men acquired hepatitis A." In 1992,26 it was noted that the proportion of London gays engaging in oral/anal sex had not declined since 1984.
What we want our "scholars" to be exposed to are lies that homosexuality is perfectly okay and that anyone that disagrees should be severly castigated.
In case you haven't been watching Sara, the agenda that homosexuals are beating America over the head with is as serious as the al Qaida terrorist threat.
If we stand around and watch this mugging of Judeo-Christian faith and values without doing a thing, we are as complicit in this evil as the doers are!
Your comments are those of an accommodator.
Not a myth, Sink.
Novus Ordo, and all it's "trappings" are even now unraveling before your very eyes.
Once the Vicar of Christ (if not the ailing present pope, but his successor) has the "North American" Roman Catholic Church in proper marching order this "new" Catholic Church will be history!
How much longer do you think that Jesus Christ will tolerate the blasphemy that the Church has become? Of course you remember the joke that ends with God saying "in a minute."
Nope. The GIRM was just released, and there's another one on the way.
The Novus Ordo is in place, and will remain in place. The Tridentine Mass will be offered, as required.
Everybody will be happy, except those who want to drive the Novus Ordo out of the Church.
My advice to you: find a Tridentine Mass, and be happy.
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