Posted on 09/13/2022 6:10:06 PM PDT by marshmallow
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 9, 2022 / 12:39 pm Catholic parents with children in college have something other than rising tuition bills to worry about this fall, as some Catholic colleges and universities are adopting “gender-inclusive” housing policies as part of a broader embrace of gender ideology.
Sacred Heart University, Saint Mary’s College of California, and Fairfield University are three universities providing a “gender-inclusive” roommate option this school year, which means sharing a dorm room with someone of the opposite sex.
Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, offers a gender-inclusive housing option that consists of “two or more students [who] mutually agree to live in a gender-inclusive, multiple-occupancy bedroom, suite, or apartment.”
Any student can opt for being matched with roommates of the opposite sex and the college doesn’t notify parents when students do so. The policy says that it’s “expected and encouraged” that students notify their families about their housing assignment.
The policy offers both random and self-selected roommate assignments. But what if those two students are romantically involved?
Sacred Heart says the policy is not intended for romantic couples and advises against rooming with a romantic partner. However, the school says that while it advises against living with a romantic partner, it respects the privacy of students, “so current procedures do not require students to disclose their reason for roommate requests.”
“Some relationships are ready for this step while others are not, and there can be serious challenges for all students should the relationship end,” the policy reads.
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Catholic friend of mine told me his daughter and her boyfriend would share an apartment for the upcoming college year. This was several years ago.
He assured me they would have separate bedrooms. 🙄
Georgetown went down this path decades ago with coed floors in the dorms and coed bathrooms. As for the hooking up part, they were quite conservative: they recommended that the amorous couple “sexile” their roommate until they’re done humping like animals.
truth is.. these are adults, and they would just get an off campus apartment and do whatever they want anyway.
Fine. Let them do that. The allegedly Catholic college should not be participating in or condoning their mortally sinful lifestyle. (Yes, sexual intercourse outside of marriage is sinful. I'm aware that a lot of people on this forum are unable to accept that fact.) "They're gonna do it anyway" is a bad excuse for cooperating in bad behavior.
Several pairs of protestant friends and acquaintances have been shacking up for years.
Jus' sayin' ...
fair enough. But in the end remember that college is simply a business that has to compete like any other business. And in this case the college dorms have to compete with the off campus privately owned alternatives. If they make too many rules, people will just choose to live off campus and their dorm rental business will suffer.
An explicitly religious college must uphold the standards of its underlying religion. If it does not, it is morally hypocritical and possibly fraudulent as well. A religious institution that fails to uphold its standards will die, and deserves to.
Your original post also contained a false premise.
these are adults
No, most of them aren't. Most of them are going to college on somebody else's dime, frequently their parents'.
businesses can have values.
And I understand what you are saying, but saying the college isn’t a business isn’t true. They have to make a profit, or they will close. Part of their profit comes from renting housing and selling food among other things.
And the technical definition of an adult is 18, and nearly everyone in college should be 18 unless they skipped a grade.
But sure, as you said the college could stick to it’s principles and have boy only and girl only dorms. But if the vast majority of it’s students think that is dumb, then they wont rent those dorms.
One would hope that parents that valued such things would send their kids to that school and give support to the school to encourage those kind of values. But if the parents don’t care, and the kids hate it, it’s hard to take a stand and in the process go bankrupt.
Businesses that betray their values die.
And the technical definition of an adult is 18,
Irrelevant. If they're subsisting on somebody else's dime (including yours and mine by way of "student loans"), they're not acting as adults and have no business bitching and moaning about it. Yes, that also applies to welfare recipients.
But if the vast majority of it’s students think that is dumb
Then they can either go someplace else or suck it up. They're in college to LEARN not to dictate. Part of what they're supposed to be LEARNING in a Catholic college is to live according to the Catholic Faith.
and the kids hate it
That's right. Kids, not adults.
it’s hard to take a stand
It certainly is. Failure to do so has greatly contributed to American (in particular) culture devolving to the current degraded, hypersexualized, homosexualized, abortion-centered cesspool. Perhaps it would be better if Catholic colleges just surrendered, and became pagan centers of debauchery no different from the once strictly protestant Ivy League? I think not!
in the process go bankrupt.
You're begging the question.
Full disclosure:
I earned my Bachelor of Science degree from a Catholic university. I lived 2 years in dorms, and 2 years off campus. University of XXXXXXXX didn't care where I lived so long as the checks cleared. And the dorms were full. And they were sex segregated. I pay attention to the various goings-on there. I note that the dorms are still sex-segregated. And the place is even more selective for admission than it was when I attended. Maintaining standards is good.
I think you missed my main point
He had convinced himself nothing was going to happen
Which really surprised me
I also went to a sex-segregated dorm college, and lived shortly in the school dorms under their stringent rules on guests. But I did move out at the earliest opportunity due to those visitation rules.
But, having said that. The dorm was full because most parents preferred their children live in the dorms under some sort of supervision.
I was thinking about my experience when making my comments. I went to a very conservative college and the visitation rules really bothered me personally. I wasn’t able to have my fiance at the time come over until after 2pm in the afternoon and she had to leave by 10.
My thought at the time was that if they had only relaxed the rules a bit, I might have stayed and at least lived under some rules instead of moving to an apartment with no rules.
1) See? It works. You moved off campus, and they moved on. I had different reasons for moving off campus, but the result was the same.
2) Having slightly longer visitation hours is a long way from LIVING IN THE SAME ROOM. And this is what happens ... incremental chipping away of standards leads to no standards at all.
3) Presenting the appearance that one is engaging in marital rights with one’s fiancee is giving scandal. I know ... today, it’s done all the time. Doesn’t make it right. If the college was attempting to uphold some sort of moral standards, I think they were right.
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