Queer Studies minor
Posted on 03/07/2006 9:53:55 AM PST by presidio9
Wheeeee! Nuther un-church lurches forward.
Let's see... just to throw a number out there, maybe 15% of priests have homosexual inclinations with only maybe 4% having an active gay lifestyle. However, you see it fit to make a broad statement that queer studies would be good preparation for the priesthood.
I would say that 90% of the people that attack the Catholic Church are liberals. It makes sense: they hate the institution's conservative stance and look for any way to discredit it.
So you say, based on 4%, that priests are gay. I say, based on 90% that you're a liberal scumbag. Who's more likely to be right?
This is a fairly old story, is it not? I could have sworn I saw this posted about three weeks ago.
Oh well, DePaul goes down for academic diversity I see.
How about "Heterosexual Studies" for a major? Now THAT would be radical!
What do you think has been going on? We're practically to the point now where anyone -- priest or not, male or female, married or not -- has to have a criminal background check to have anything to do with kids in a Catholic setting, and we are at the point where certain lawyers are openly trolling for men who will accuse priests of fondling them. (Whether the accusation is true or not is beside the point. The money is there. My diocese recently settled for an unknown amount with victims who were abused by a man after he had been expelled from the priesthood!! If you can figure out where the justice is in that, please let me know. It was evidently cheaper to settle than to keep paying lawyers to fight it.)
Meanwhile, there's this for you to chew on. Notice the poster's comments on the number of public school sexual molestation cases versus cases involving the Catholic clergy.
Not to be rude, BUT.....is there any other kind?
Impractical fields of study are what minors are there for. I majored in economics, and one of my minors was in studio art.
Are you a Catholic? If so, what are you doing to clean up your Church?
Here's what I don't understand.
It's perfectly legitimate to offer courses in human sexuality (coded for Hum Bio, Psych and Anthro), perhaps including upper-level coursework focusing on same-sex attractions; in how societies "deal with" gay sexual orientation (Sociology, Anthro, History); etc.
So what I fail to understand is why a specific "Queer Studies" realm is needed. Someone wishing to focus on that -- perhaps for solid reasons, perhaps for silly ones -- can petition for an Individually Designed Major and pick accordingly.
The answer is: The very creation of the "department" (or the availability of Queer Studies as a "standard" minor), is a sop to the forces of PC on campus.
Queer Studies minor
You are not well informed. The Church has started to do something about the problem, starting with the Pope's edicts blocking gays from entering the seminaries. The problem was that the US Catholic Church thought that gays were capable of being as celibate as straights, so that "orientation" didn't matter. Okay, now we know for certain that orientation does in fact matter. And have done something about it.
Jumping in between two good Freepers, let me answer for WyattEarp that there is nothing that we are being allowed to do. The same folks (or the next complicit generation) are still in charge and the laity is being told everything has been taken care of.
There is no role the clergy will allow the laity to play in reforming the perverted nature of the modern Catholic Church.
Very said but true.
The one organization the media has focused on as opposition is an umnbrella organization comprised of some groups opposed to Catholic theology.
ain case you haven't seen this one.
Time to roto-root Catholic Univserities.
Obviously you are not referring to either the Catholic League or Opus Dei.
"Thank you for perpetuating the myth that Catholic priests are perverted child molesters."
There sure have been numerous investigations, arrests, convictions and young men's lives ruined over that "myth".
Stop deluding yourself and lighten up, it was a joke.
No Voices of the Faithful. The ones you mentioned have no input either.
Yes....And medical research money for normal people is re-directed from heart-cancer-and childhod diseases to keep these people alive for as long as possible.
The knee-kerk response that someone who is gay is a priest is analgous to saying someone is cheap because he is a Jew, an alchoholic because he is Irish, in the Mafia because he is Italian, lazy because he is Mexican, stupid becuase he is Polish, or a criminal because he is black. As an attempt at humor, it is also less original.
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