Posted on 04/26/2010 6:12:35 PM PDT by concernedAmerican1
According to an article published by The Setonian on April 15, a course on homosexual “marriage” will be offered next semester at Seton Hall University, a Catholic university in New Jersey with approximately 10,000 students.
Here is the red flag:
The course will be taught by Professor King Mott, a pro-homosexual activist whose biography, posted on Seton Hall’s web site, mentions his affiliation with Lambda Legal, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, and Human Rights Campaign -- groups that promote ideas that run contrary to Catholic moral teaching.
Although the article in The Setonian affirms that the planned classes will not be used as an advocacy tool, many find the assertion hard to believe.
Anti-Catholic Professor
In fact, in a paper titled "The Sanctity of Marriage: Current Boundaries and the New Vocabulary," Prof. King Mott writes: "Efforts to condemn the [homosexual] culture itself as Pope John Paul II has done in recent encyclicals only illustrate the futility of orthodoxy in general and the papacy in particular."
"The notion that marriage is a stable and ancient human arrangement, derived from divine revelation, limited to that existing between one man and one woman, and binding save through the permission of a single Church is contrived. It is laughable to consider that human relationships could ever find satisfaction and expression in this single interpretation of marriage," he continued.
"To be 'gay' is not to identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of the homosexual, but to try to develop a way of life. This is exactly what must happen in the debate over marriage rights."
Enough Moral Confusion
The consistent teaching of the Catholic Church has been crystal clear for 2,000 years: Homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered and contrary to Natural Law. They are grave sins.
Why should any Catholic university sponsor a course that leads students away from the truth? Why should the Catholic classroom be used as a tool to advance the homosexual movement and undermine traditional marriage?
In our hyper-sexualized culture, Seton Hall University would do well to cancel this course and replace it with one that teaches students how to appreciate the beauty of abstinence, modesty and heroic purity.
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Weird...they are going to teach about something that doesn’t exist. There’s no such thing as “same-sex marriage.”
The Catholic Church better jack up on these institutions
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I should receive a tax break for enjoying chocolate. Makes as much sense as “same-sex marriage”.
Please. Many “Catholic” universities in America are CINO. I went to Georgetown for graduate school. I think there was a cross somewhere on campus but it was covered up to avoid offending anyone.
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“There’s no such thing as “same-sex marriage.”
At best, they mean “homosexual marriage,” which, in and of itself, can’t possible exist . . . defies logic.
Why not a course on the mating habits of seahorses? Much more interesting wherein the male has the offspring.
What’s your take on this? Notre Dame and Seton Hall appear to be nothing more than additional bastions of the leftist educational establishment.
How did that happen?
Many of this country’s oldest private universities began as religious college. Harvard, for instance, was founded by Puritans. Others were founded by various Protestant denominations. And virtually all of them became secularized.
Unfortunately, it looks as if many Catholic colleges are going down the same road as the Protestant colleges did earlier.
| Archbishop John Myers 973-497-4190 | Msgr. Robert Sheeran 973-761-9620 |
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But I admit I know next to nothing about Seton Hall University.
You know the answer to that.
I was at Seton Hall about 25 years ago. It’s not a radical institution at the administrative level, but I encountered left wing professors that could curl your hair, including a radical anti-American Iranian professor, a gay priest trying to molest students, lesbian feminist professors insisting that female students must be lesbians to prove they can live w/o men.
IOW I am not even slightly surprised by this story. College campuses are hangouts for crazy leftists.
Time for the Bishop to man up!
http://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otr.cfm?id=4962
As I said previously, most catholic colleges are a waste of money.
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