Posted on 10/24/2017 6:16:10 PM PDT by marshmallow
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 24, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – A student group at Georgetown University faces defunding and other possible sanctions for defending the Catholic Church’s teaching on marriage.
Love Saxa exists to promote healthy relationships and sexual integrity.
It describes itself as a “new initiative at Georgetown to promote and celebrate authentically loving relationships.”
Love Saxa was restarted as a student group after taking a break for a year, according to the Hoya. On October 3, it hosted a talk by Dawn Hawkins, executive director of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation.
“In a society where dating and courtship are largely forgotten, structures of marriage and family are eroding, traditional understandings of gender complementarity are distant concepts, the use of pornography is prevalent, and sexual assault is rampant, Love Saxa exists to promote healthy relationships on campus through cultivating a proper understanding of sex, gender, marriage, and family among Georgetown students,” Love Saxa says on its website and Facebook page.
“Many Georgetown students lack a space to discuss their experiences of the harmful effects of a distorted view of human sexuality and the human person,” Love Saxa’s mission statement explains. “Through programs consisting of discussions, lectures, and campaigns, we hope to increase awareness of the benefits of sexual integrity, healthy dating relationships, and the primacy of marriage & family as central pillars of society.”
Georgetown student Jasmin Ouseph submitted a formal complaint to the Jesuit-run Catholic school about the club, claiming it violates the Division of Student Affairs’ Student Organization Standards.
The presidents of GU Pride and Georgetown University Queer People of Color are complaining along with Ouseph.
A hearing about the group's fate was scheduled to take place on October 23 but was pushed to October 30, Love Saxa member and Georgetown Knights of Columbus president Hunter Estes told LifeSiteNews.
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The moral decline of the “Catholic” universities is a symptom of the malaise in the Church in Western nations. My father attended a Catholic universities. Make students couldn’t get past the parlour of the women’s dorm and were chaperoned by nuns. Those same dorms are now co-ed and the Church’s presence on campus seen as an anachronism.
The presidents of GU Pride and Georgetown University Queer People of Color are complaining along with Ouseph.
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When Jesus returns, it ain’t gonna be pretty for some.
Point 7 in the Frankfurt school’s 11 point plan.
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I am a Georgetown alumnus. I’m not Catholic, though I am proud of my experience at the school. However, in view of the moral slide that has been going on there for the last 10 or 15 years, if I were still, somehow, an active contributor, I would immediately stop contributing. This is simply shameful, that a supposedly Catholic university is engaging in purposeful discrimination against people who are acting according to traditional Catholic doctrine.
Again, I’m not Catholic, but there is something to be said for not being completely and utterly hypocritical.
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