Posted on 01/24/2008 5:54:57 PM PST by frogjerk
ST. LOUIS — A Roman Catholic archbishop's call this week for Saint Louis University to discipline its popular basketball coach for publicly supporting abortion rights has put the Jesuit school in a bind.
If the university takes action against Rick Majerus, no stranger to controversy throughout his career, it risks criticism for clamping down on the free exchange of ideas.
If it doesn't, it looks like it's brushing off Archbishop Raymond Burke, who chastised Majerus for airing his views at a Hillary Rodham Clinton rally last weekend.
The university hasn't publicly heeded Burke's call to discipline Majerus, who coached Utah to 10 NCAA tournament appearances and whose hiring last April electrified supporters of the Billikens.
University spokesman Clayton Berry would not say Thursday if the school is considering disciplinary action against Majerus. He has said previously that Majerus was speaking at the rally as an individual, not as a representative of the school.
University athletics spokesman Chuck Young said Majerus refused to comment Thursday to The Associated Press.
Majerus took a typically defiant stand in an interview published Thursday in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Ping!
The Jesuits were recently warned by the Pope to get in line. Hopefully they will wake up...
Brought to you, I believe, by the same Archbishop who threatened to refuse John Kerry communion if he came to St. Louis. Same reason.
“......it risks criticism for clamping down on the free exchange of ideas..”
From secular progressives and LeftMedia blowhards.
When it comes to Her established doctrine concerning the protection of innocent life, the Church is not interested in such liberal fairy tales as the “free exchange of ideas”.
As a non-Catholic, I applaud those in the church who stand firm on its moral theology. Although many view pro-life issues as an evangelical issue, the fact is that the Catholic church addressed the issue long before we evangelicals did.
“Brought to you, I believe, by the same Archbishop who threatened to refuse John Kerry communion if he came to St. Louis.”
Correct. Preemptively I might add; TraitorKerry had announced no plans to come to St. Louis and take Communion. Archbishop Burke fired a shot across his bow to bring the whole issue of CINO politicians using the Faith for jaded politcal purposes.
Archbishop Burke is a man among, sad to say, queers.
This type of screening of employees and contractors has some wide ranging implications. How far will it go, questions about abortion beliefs on the applications for employement, vendors, contactors? Interesting issue.
Sorry to hear about Majerus being a Clinton supporter and an abortionist.
Really glad Kentucky put him out of the NCAA three times.
I’d like to sit behind his bench at ballgame. He sweats pretty easy anyway.
Why would Jesuits listen to the pope? They’re Protestants after all. ;)
Majerus cares about human life about as much as he does taking care of his body. He should be a poster child for Hillary’s campaign.
“Why would Jesuits listen to the pope? They’re Protestants after all. ;)”
Oh no you don’t. They don’t do jello salad in church suppers.
He may have a right to free speech and association. The church doesn't have to associate with him either, all it takes is a phone call telling him to stay home next Sunday and thereafter.
“My dad fought on Okinawa in World War II. My uncle died in World War II. I had classmates die in Vietnam. (translation: I’m related to heros but I’m a coward.) And it was to preserve our way of life, “ ... It seems that Coach M’s ‘way of life’ consists in ensuring that the smallest and most defenseless have no life at all.
St. Louis U. recently set a modern NCAA Division I record by scoring only 20 points in a 49-20 loss against George Washington University.
Highest scorer for St. Louis had 5 points!
fire this murder-supporter immediately.
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