Posted on 04/29/2010 6:10:48 AM PDT by NYer
SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey, April 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Seton Hall University, the oldest Catholic diocesan university in the U.S., will be offering a same-sex "marriage" course taught by a homosexualist professor.
The Setonian, the university's newspaper, reported that the new course offering for Fall 2010 would be offered by associate professor W. King Mott, an open homosexual who was demoted in 2005 after complaining about the Catholic Church's stance against homosexuality.
The course will be offered under the Women and Gender studies department, and will be available to upper level students of any major.
“The Roman Catholic Church is prima facie homophobic,” Mott had told the press. “The Roman Catholic Church considers me to be inherently disordered. I don't know how much more homophobic one can be.” However, the university insisted that it was not rebuking Mott for his personal views, but only for failing to disassociate himself from the school.
Mott claims that next semester's course is not an advocacy course, but will, in the words of the Setonian's Jessica Sutcliffe, "[teach] the issue of gay marriage from an academic perspective."
“It is one thing to say ‘I am for or against gay marriage,’” Mott said. “It’s another to actually understand the issue. ... I hope my students gain an appreciation and respect for disinterested analysis that can be used to formulate an informed opinion."
Students in the course will write a report on same-sex "marriage" from "a perspective they choose after they have been educated on the issue," according to the article.
Junior Anthony Angelella, a secondary education and mathematics major, quoted by the Setonian, said he was "surprised" but "excited" about the class, and that it "just shows that a Catholic campus doesn't have to be so cut and dry about controversial issues.”
Mott, who as of 2005 lived with his male partner, openly maintains an affiliation with Lambda Legal, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, and Human Rights Campaign, all leading homosexualist groups.
TFP Student Action points out that, in a paper entitled "The Sanctity of Marriage: Current Boundaries and the New Vocabulary," Mott said that maintaining marriage as between one man and one woman was "laughable."
"The notion that marriage is a stable and ancient human arrangement, derived from divine revelation, limited to that existing between one man and one woman, and binding save through the permission of a single Church is contrived," he wrote, as quoted by the student group. "It is laughable to consider that human relationships could ever find satisfaction and expression in this single interpretation of marriage."
TFP Student Action's John Ritchie questioned the rationale behind allowing Mott to offer the course. "Why should any Catholic university sponsor a course that leads students away from the truth?" he asked.
"Why should the Catholic classroom be used as a tool to advance the homosexual movement and undermine traditional marriage?
"In our hyper-sexualized culture, Seton Hall University would do well to cancel this course and replace it with one that teaches students how to appreciate the beauty of abstinence, modesty and heroic purity."
Seton Hall University responded to LifeSiteNews.com's request for comment with a statement declaring that the class was a "special topics" course that, as such, professors could offer "on an experimental basis three times" and therefore was "not reviewed by the college curricular committee."
"This course has been scheduled for the fall semester to examine one of the most significant political policy questions of our time. It is not presented to our students as an advocacy course. Thus, we fully anticipate that the Catholic position on same-sex marriage will be robustly explored," stated the school.
The University declined to give further comment.
Contact:
Monsignor Robert Sheeran, president, Seton Hall University
400 South Orange Ave
South Orange, NJ 07079
(973) 761-9620
president@shu.edu
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The Vatican SHOULD be notified regarding this!
This is another reason universities continue to become irrelevant. They no longer teach - they indoctrinate.
Nothing Catholic about this university. They have long embraced pro choice politicians, including Corzine of NJ.
In return for a donation from Corzine, they gave his girlfriend Karla Katz a scholarship to their law school.
They should be, but aren’t ashamed.
I sacrifice to send my kids to Catholic high school, but there's no way I would ever send them to a “Catholic” college today.
The Catholic church is doomed.
...Should have demoted him to assistant janitor
Um, why does there have to be a special course on homo marriage? Is it that different from real marriage?
This article and the action it describes are out of character unless it really is a course about gay marriage and not an advocacy thing. I'd be suspicious.
Also, don't confuse the main SHU with the Law School in downtown Newark. That place is full of leftist scumbags who trip over each other trying to help terrorists.
As a parent, I just have to say — I would NOT be happy to pay my kid’s tuition money for THAT course.
The Catholic (church/no) colleges are doomed. That is as it should be.
I’d suggest that knowing the church that runs the university you teach at considers you inherently disordered, loathing them for that, and yet continuing to work for them and cash their paychecks, instead of going somewhere more hospitable to you is prima facie proof that, in ways entirely separate from your sexuality, they’re right.
Seton Hall answers to Archbishop John Myers of Newark. People should write him, too, especially if he’s their ordinary.
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I hope the Catholic ping lists take this up. Clock King, I like how you think!
How hard of an issue is it to understand? In a 'gay' marriage one person desires to have society celebrate his/her perverse sexual behavior with another person of the same sex. They are seeking approval of a behavior that GOD calls abomination and that the Catholic church admits is "Inherently Disordered".
I'm not even Catholic and I understand the Catholic perspective on the issue. Thou shalt not!
Why is the bishop allowing this advocacy course to happen at all? And why are they allowing an open sodomite to be instructing at a "Catholic" university?
The church should cut off ALL funding to this university and ban them from ever claiming to be Catholic again.
What kind of BS job does someone who takes these courses get?
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