Posted on 09/25/2009 7:45:37 AM PDT by Pyro7480
On September 15, 2009, StandForMarriageMaine.com released a television ad which featured Scott Fitzgibbon, a professor at Boston College Law School, arguing in defense of marriage between one man and one woman. He encouraged Maine voters to vote "yes" on an upcoming ballot referendum which aims to overturn state legislation which legalized homosexual "marriage" last May.
Complaints from fellow faculty members at Boston College, a Jesuit-affiliated school, soon began piling up. Merely one day after the ad aired, Boston College Law Dean John Garvey issued a letter to the BC law community, writing, "Several of you have contacted my office to express your anger at Scott's actions, and it is hard for me to see any of our students, faculty, or staff offended or hurt by the words of others."
Rather than praising Fitzgibbon's public defense of a Catholic teaching, Dean Garvey wrote that Fitzgibbon's "public statements represent his own opinions ... and do not state any official position of Boston College Law School." Garvey defended Fitzgibbons' participation in the advertisement but also seemed to welcome faculty opposition to Catholic teaching.
"We also have faculty members who hold a contrary view, which they too are free to express publicly," he wrote. "Many have done so while referring to themselves as BC Law professors. One of them has publicly led the fight to oppose the Solomon Amendment on the grounds that it is an affront to gay and lesbian students and prospective members of the U.S. military. Others have taken controversial positions on such subjects as abortion, euthanasia, and the treatment of detainees."
Three days after Fitzgibbon's pro-traditional marriage ad aired, a group of 76 "Individual Faculty and Administrators at Boston College Law School," including Dean Garvey, issued the following statement : "The undersigned members of the faculty and administration at Boston College Law School feel that it is important to reaffirm our belief in the equality of all of our students. We are proud of the fact that Boston College Law School was one of the first law schools in the country to include sexual orientation in its non-discrimination pledge, and we reaffirm our commitment to making our institution a welcome and safe place for all students, including LGBT students."
My daughter applied to and was accepted at several. Among those I visited I was most impressed by University of Dallas.
This is academia, folks and BC is simply reflecting the typical north east liberal academic mindset.
There's little Catholic ethos about it.
On a side note, we should remember that schools like this are producing our future judges. It's no surprise that the judiciary is so activist and anti-family when it is being educated by faculty such as this.
Jenkins and Notre Dame are Holy Cross but BC is Jesuit. I wonder what ND's law school has to say about the topic.
What about the school in Cicinnati called Thomas something or other. Is that a liberal school or one that follows the church’s teachings?
King’s College in Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania is a small Catholic College, but it is known to still true to the Church.
St. Francis University of Steubenville Ohio also genuine Catholic and
Ave Maria University, recently established in Naples, Florida also genuine.
Does a prospective student need to be a Catholic to go to one of these schools?
ACC has replaced INRI.
Catholics are so queer these days.
And Lutherans.
And Episcopals.
And Presbyterians.
And Methodists.
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Not at all. In fact BC reserves 10% of it population for international students.
None that I know of that have Division 1 football programs. Don't want to p.o. the alums you know.
The big mainlines are suffering badly across the board, with a few exceptions. There are a couple or so back-to-the-bible Lutheran synods. If situated deep in the Bible Belt, Methodists are likely to be as fervent as their Baptist brethren.
Catholic churches are spotty in quality across the US. One would think the looie ones would get a flurry of Laodicean warning letters from the hierarchy, but they don’t.
Boston or Benedictine?
TRIPLE BUMP!!
I love your tag line!
Rather than praising Fitzgibbon's public defense of a Catholic teaching, Dean Garvey wrote that Fitzgibbon's "public statements represent his own opinions ... and do not state any official position of Boston College Law School." Garvey defended Fitzgibbons' participation in the advertisement but also seemed to welcome faculty opposition to Catholic teaching.
Is Dean Garvey also a heretic? Does Boston College welcome heretics? Where do they draw the line, or is it all relative? What happened to support for Catholic teaching? Get rid of the vermin; the school will be the better for it.
I applaud Fitzgibbon's public defense of Catholic teaching! Why is not there more? Or does the school also embrace the culture of death?
You are from the real world, eh?
Keep in mind that this is from the University scene-ivory tower Liberal. But, why does this professor get pegged with having it in for gays, lesbians or anyone. It’s not as if he asked to have gay students kicked out of class! He has a legal opinion and it should be treated no differently than another professor arguing a point about pharmaceutical liability.
The critical problem here is that Liberal orthodoxy squelches discussion on certain “sacred cow” subjects, which often characterize frivolous claims of insult as Civil Rights crises.
“The recommended Newman Guide colleges are Ave Maria University, Aquinas College (Tenn.), Belmont Abbey College, Benedictine College, The Catholic University of America, Christendom College, The College of Saint Thomas More (Texas), DeSales University, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Holy Apostles College & Seminary, John Paul the Great Catholic University, Magdalen College, Mount St. Mary’s University, Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academy, St. Gregory’s University, Southern Catholic College, Thomas Aquinas College, The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (N.H.), University of Dallas, University of St. Thomas (Texas), and Wyoming Catholic College.”
There ARE Catholic Catholic colleges in America.
The first one Ave Maria is owned and funded by Tom Monaghan the guy who built Dominos pizza into a billion dollar firm. Tom is a faithful catholic and a Marine.
Maybe you could go to the Newman Society and use the search word "Thomas" to find the information you're looking for.
No; I don’t think any of them require prospective students to be Catholic.
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