Catechism
2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered. ” They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstance can they be approved.
Considerations Regarding Proposals To Give Legal Recognition To UNIONS
BETWEEN HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS
I don't get it
He'll lose, universities always win theese sorts of fights.
He could have had fun with the paper. I mean if you're getting the boot anyway.
This is ridiculous.... he could have called them much worse...not allowed here on FR
"Subhuman" was a poor choice of words. To say that the conduct is wrong or disordered is fine, but "subhuman" introduces all kinds of Nazi implications, or NARAL implications if you prefer. No class of human beings is subhuman, unless you use the term loosely, which is dangerous.
That said, he is surely within his first-amendment rights. No university, still less a Catholic university, should handle the matter this way.
Homosexuality, though personally abhorent to me (and to God) is NOT "subhuman".
No other animal species that I know of exhibits this type of deviant behavior, unless you count those Sweedish penguins - one of whom eventually went straight.
Contact... FIRE
Sub-human? It's sub-simian.
Charles J. Dougherty, Ph.D.
Duquesne University President
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He is in trouble because of an online, non-school, website? So I guess the school could kick him out for attending a Catholic or evangelical church.
Maybe it would have been better if he had stated that a person who engages in homosexual acts is sure to get a reservation at the Eternal Lake of Burning Hellfire Resort and Spa. I am sure it is listed on Expedia, Hotwire and Priceline.
The study focuses on ten of the largest Catholic universities based on undergraduate enrollment. They include Boston College (employees reportedly gave $17,000 to Kerry and none to Bush), DePaul University (Kerry $7,950, Bush $250), Duquesne University (Kerry $1,350, Bush $200), Fordham University (Kerry $19,460, Bush $4,000), Loyola University of Chicago (Kerry $6,300, Bush $700), Marquette University (Kerry $1,200, Bush $1,200), St. John’s University of New York (Kerry $2,750, Bush $750), St. Louis University (Kerry $7,750, Bush $3,500) and the University of Notre Dame (Kerry $15,350, Bush $3,600).
William Presutti, associate dean of Duquesne University’s Graduate School of Business ($250 to Kerry);
Marian Wright Edelman, president, Children's Defense Fund; CDF promotes school health clinics that emphasize contraceptive services and abortion; Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.
subhuman not right - but ...
Perverted
deviant
abnormal
substandard
falting
disordered
etc - all correct
homosexuals cannot propagate their own species therefore they are a deviant, abnormal, substandard form of life.
For the leftist darwinian evolutionists that should be obvious.
Write a paper stating 'homos are sick' for ten pages. Single spaced!
Office of Judicial Affairs (Dubuque University) at this address (from that article)...
http://www.studentlife.duq.edu/depJA.html
Dubuque has no place as a Catholic university organizing or hosting any such "Gay-Straight Alliance" group or otherwise interests, particularly and especially since the issue of homosexuality is defined as it is within Catholicism (and the Bible).
Also, the student's comments were written outside of the school's academic influence -- how the school is intruding into this person's actions given that important issue is beyond me (unless there was some sort of "academic dishonesty" involved as to the guy's character but I don't see from the article that there was, just that the school disagrees with the guy's choice of words).
"Sub-human" as expression seems like the age-appropriate language of someone trying to express civilized dismissal of entirely unacceptable behavior. The guy isn't a forty year old doctorate, he's an undergraduate young adult using words available to his level of knowledge...I don't find it as offensive as the school's alleging it is when considering the writer's age and academic level, nor given the non-academic venue on which the expression was made.
For what it's worth, all things considered, I agree that the fellow, the student, has been wronged and that the school is working entirely outside it's scope of responsibility, AND is otherwise also engaged in actions that do not represent a respect or acknowledgement for the Catholic Catechism.
While the Catechism does not declare homosexual acts to be "sub human," it DOES describe them (in more mature and accurate language) as "intrinsically disorded" and the kid seems to have just used a more casual vernacular to try to express that in his attempt to uphold the Catechism itself.
Dubuque should be chastised for it's attempts to punish and ridicule this guy.
The Vatican should censure Duquesne, demand it apologize to the student and ban Gay-Straight alliances and, should it fail to comply, strip them of their Catholic affiliation.
How can a Catholic school have an Abomination Club? That's what Catholicism says homo play is, an abomination.
Miner was using an online directory not related to the University, where does the University get off punishing him???? Shouldn't the website/webmaster be responsible for it's content???
Posting an adverse view of specific, and very controversial, conduct on a public forum is not harassment or discrimination. The University Office of Judicial Affairs needs a crash course in the meaning of terms. For openers, this is a very sloppy attempt at legalistic analysis--worthy of the drivel that used to "sparkle" in the opinions of the late Earl Warren.
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If that's the topic, it seems like he could write about how the Church teaches that homosexuality is intrinsically disordered. Or he could start here: Top Vatican Cardinal: Gay Marriage is "A Crime Which represents the Destruction of the World"
There must be more to it than that if he's refusing.