How about blaming the Catholics and the mainline Protestants? Emmaus Bible College isn't showing it. I doubt you'll see it at Oral Roberts or Bob Jones universities, either.
Exactly for what educational reason is the Vagina Monologues being shown to these schools?
Oh, I get it!
This means Barbara Boxer is scheduled to speak, right?
University of Toledo?!? Since I received my undergrad degree there I know its not Catholic. I'm just glad I've never supported the school after I left.
Augustana College(s) (there are two of them) are Lutheran. ELCA, maybe? I believe all of the other schools on your "maybe Catholic" list are secular.
College of St. Mary / Nebraska is not in Bp. Bruskewitz's diocese (Lincoln) but in the diocese of Omaha, hence, the question you should be asking is, "Where is Bishop Curtiss?"
All in all, a nice list of schools to which you should not consider sending your son or daughter. (And there are many more.)
Google it.
Lehigh?
Founded
1865
Status
Co-educational, non-denominational, private
Mount Holyoke?
Mount Holyoke College is a highly selective, nondenominational, residential, liberal arts college for women ...Founded in 1837 by chemist and revolutionary educator Mary Lyon, Mount Holyoke is the nation's oldest continuing institution of higher learning for women. It was the first of the Seven Sisters—the female equivalent of the predominantly male Ivy League.
Is there someplace where I can just withdraw my membership from this sick modern society?
It sickens me to think that there are so many people out there that would support banning The Vagina Monologues. Have you seen them? Have you bothered to look more deeply into a topic that you're so ready to condone?
The Vagina Monologues are not a staged performance of low-grade pornography, or sinful behavior, they are stories of women who have triumphed over the worst odds, survived countess horrors, and courageously continue to live their lives despite they many setbacks they've encountered. They are about women who can feel comfortable with who they are, who radiate spirituality and faith. Each member of every audience that goes to see them leaves the room with a renewed sense of spirituality that can only be achieve by the utmost inspiration, gained from the amazing stories of these women.
My high school produced a version of The Vagina Monologues, and I have to tell you, I'm so proud of them for it. The sense of strength it gave the women in the production was amazing. I've never seen anything like it.
By turning away from this production for "moral" reasons, without really learning about it, you have self-censored one of the most revolutionary and positive productions for women that I've ever seen. We need to take pride in our bodies, just the way God made them. We need to learn to love ourselves, just as He does. If God did not want us to celebrate our uniqueness, every piece, every inch of ourselves, He would not have made individuals, with different hearts, hands, feet, VAGINAS.
So, before turning from this powerful display of female strength, a testament to God's amazing presence on earth, take a chance to see it, learn more about it, experience its power.
Uhhh ok,
These are colleges, the students there are adults.
Perhaps those adults will have the opportunity to attend, or not, at their own discretion.
So what's the problem?
"The schools are "showing: this production?
Are their Theater Departments putting the play on, or is the play being allowed to be produced at the university campus?
Either way, so what? If the students don't wish to see it, they won't go.
I suspect that this production is "making the circuit" and university venues are the only option. It probably doesn't draw enough to be put on in the larger markets.
Bottom line: I think you're either overeating or trying to make some "point" about Catholic Schools.
The back cover of my paperback edition of The Vagina Monologues asserts (1) that its principal aim is to be “a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery” and (2) that it has been “hailed as a bible for a new generation of women.” I would argue that both of these claims are false. First, far from celebrating the complexity and mystery of female sexuality, The Vagina Monologues simplifies and demystifies it by reducing it to the vagina. In contrast, Roman Catholic teaching sees female sexuality as ordered toward a loving giving of self to another in a union of body, mind, and soul that is ordered to the procreation of new life. The deeper complexity and mystery lies in the capacity of human sexuality, both male and female, to sacramentalize the love of God in marriage. Any depiction of female sexuality that neglects its unitive and procreative dimensions diminishes its complexity, its mystery, and its dignity. Moreover, to explore fully the dignity of woman requires not only a consideration of female sexuality, but also of the capacity of women for intellectual, artistic, moral, and spiritual activity; none of these dimensions are featured in The Vagina Monologues.Second, the description of the play as a “new bible” is an indication that its depiction of female sexuality is meant to displace the traditional Biblical view that inspires the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. The two positions are deeply and diametrically opposed. Nowhere is this clearer than in a monologue wherein the alcohol-fueled seduction of a sixteen-year-old girl by a twenty-four-year-old woman is described as resulting in “salvation” and “a kind of heaven.” What is thus characterized in traditional religious language is instead abusive, demeaning, exploitative, and morally wrong according to the true Bible. Precisely because its depiction of female sexuality is so deeply at odds with the true meaning and morality that the Catholic Church’s teaching celebrates, The Vagina Monologues is not an appropriate play to be performed on our campus. Therefore the college will prohibit the production of The Vagina Monologues.
And yet none of the solidly Calvinist colleges aren't on the list: Master's College, Covenant College, Calvin College.
You can hide behind the fact that Mainstream Proddie (read secular) colleges have it scheduled, or just face up to the fact that the who's who of RC schools are has it on tap.
"Who is blind like my people?!" alert.
this is sick