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The Notre Dame Scandal Just Got So Much Worse
Creative Minority Report ^ | 10/29/14 | Matthew Archbold

Posted on 10/29/2014 6:26:17 PM PDT by marshmallow

This is not good. You likely remember that earlier this month, the University of Notre Dame announced that it was complying with the law by offering spousal benefits to same-sex partners.

The problem is...there's no such law.

The Sycamore Trust released its latest bulletin and it's a must read.

As we have reported, earlier this month the university announced that, since same-sex marriages are now legal in Indiana after the Supreme Court refused to review the lower court decisions striking down Indiana's ban, Notre Dame would extend spousal benefits to spouses in same-sex civil marriages. Those benefits include not only health insurance but such particularly symbolic privileges as married student housing. The university explained:

Notre Dame is a Catholic university and endorses a Catholic view of marriage. However, it will follow the relevant civil law and begin to implement this change immediately.

We thought Notre Dame meant there is some law requiring Notre Dame to do this. We thought "follow the law" meant, well, follow the law. You might have thought the same thing.

You would have been wrong.

Since we couldn't find such a law, we asked the university to tell us which law they meant and why they hadn't raised a religious liberty objection. When we received no reply, we wrote again, this time to the general counsel with a copy to Father Jenkins. We said we'd conclude there is no such law if we got no response within a week.

Again, no reply.

(Excerpt) Read more at creativeminorityreport.com ...


TOPICS: Catholic; Ministry/Outreach; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: catholicnomore; notredame
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1 posted on 10/29/2014 6:26:17 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Notre Dame explained in 21 seconds:

http://tinyurl.com/southbendscandal


2 posted on 10/29/2014 6:28:38 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: marshmallow

They’re doing the same thing at Creighton.


3 posted on 10/29/2014 6:28:48 PM PDT by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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To: marshmallow

Is it still considered a Catholic university and if so, why?

When it the Catholic church going to take a stand on these moral issues and actually either make the university fall in line with official Catholic teaching, or completely sever all ties with it?


4 posted on 10/29/2014 6:29:02 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: marshmallow

Just pointing out here that these are American Roman Catholics, which many Non-US Roman Catholics and most non-Roman Catholics don’t consider to actually BE Catholic.


5 posted on 10/29/2014 6:29:33 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: marshmallow

If you offer benefits to legally married couples, you have to offer benefits to legally married couples.
Any HR goon can tell you that.


6 posted on 10/29/2014 6:32:58 PM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: Hoodat

the Pope will soon speak to this blasphame. There is shame on Notre Dame!!! Bad shame!!


7 posted on 10/29/2014 6:33:18 PM PDT by iowacornman (. He is the father of government health care.)
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To: marshmallow

Perhaps the Archbishop should simply FIRE the ND administration and replace them with Catholics?


8 posted on 10/29/2014 6:36:00 PM PDT by G Larry (Amnesty imposes SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants & minorities)
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To: metmom

You thought they were calling it a Catholic university.

In fact, they were calling it “Cath-o-like”.

They honor the parts of Catholicism they like, and ignore the parts they don’t like.


9 posted on 10/29/2014 6:41:08 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: metmom
When it the Catholic church going to take a stand on these moral issues and actually either make the university fall in line with official Catholic teaching, or completely sever all ties with it?

you're a Catholic who doesn't follow Catholic teachings, who are you to question their motives???

10 posted on 10/29/2014 6:42:33 PM PDT by terycarl (common sense prevails over all)
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To: marshmallow

The Fighting Irish now speak Gay-lick.


11 posted on 10/29/2014 6:44:01 PM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: AppyPappy
If you offer benefits to legally married couples, you have to offer benefits to legally married couples. Any HR goon can tell you that.

And when the Nazis tell you it is illegal to patronize the Jewish shops you obey the law.

12 posted on 10/29/2014 6:47:06 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: marshmallow

Imagine that. Cultists behaving like cultists.


13 posted on 10/29/2014 6:57:00 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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To: metmom
When it the Catholic church going to take a stand on these moral issues and actually either make the university fall in line with official Catholic teaching, or completely sever all ties with it?

You mean is the Catholic church going to hold unchanging Scripture as supreme, as the wholly inspired and accurate word of God? Otherwise obedience is to be according to how the leadership interprets itself.

..Jenkins confirmed that this isn't a question of law but a one of policy. "Apart from any legal obligation," he said, "we recognize an urgent call to welcome, support and cherish our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters." After referring to past injustices to homosexuals, he declared, "Our abiding goal…is to build a less imperfect community of love."

14 posted on 10/29/2014 7:03:08 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: edpc
The Fighting Irish now speak Gay-lick.

Lol!

15 posted on 10/29/2014 7:06:52 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: metmom

The church will not take a stand as long as it is run by the proggs. And I don’t think that day is coming any time soon.


16 posted on 10/29/2014 7:12:00 PM PDT by certrtwngnut (The middle east is where the enemy of my enemy is my enemy!)
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To: DiogenesLamp

That made no sense whatsoever.


17 posted on 10/29/2014 7:17:12 PM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: marshmallow

We have this nonsense at the Naval Academy but you would never know it. I don’t even think we have any gays on the faculty much less the staff. It is available but nobody discusses it. I kinda like it that way. Seriously though, nobody is gay at the Naval Academy (at least faculty and staff). Great place to live!!!!!


18 posted on 10/29/2014 7:19:27 PM PDT by napscoordinator (I guarantee every FRiend Misses the lost opportunity of a President Santorum!)
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To: AppyPappy
That made no sense whatsoever.

I'm sorry you didn't understand my point. My point was that we do not have any moral obligation to obey the law simply because it is the law.

I urge all my fellow citizens to disobey immoral laws so long as they can do so without suffering serious repercussions.

We need to be as disobedient, defiant, and resistive of these evil people as we can.

19 posted on 10/29/2014 7:26:08 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: AppyPappy
If you offer benefits to legally married couples, you have to offer benefits to legally married couples. Any HR goon can tell you that.

Good point. One solution is to end "spousal benefits" to couples, period. But it would take integrity and principle to do that, and we know those are foreign concepts to Indiana's biggest combination bath house-and-abortion mill.

20 posted on 10/29/2014 7:29:19 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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