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To: OldDeckHand
No one has suggested Catholic universities hire only orthodox Catholics, so your attacks and misrepresentations are "strained" at best.

I'm trying to be charitable but your remarks seem to contain a severely bitter undercurrent of malice toward those who consider the lives of unborn children and the responsibilities of "Catholic" institutions to be serious matters.

It seems to me you haven't even read the document compiled by the Cardinal Newman Society and are only interested in continued sneers and smears, so I'll leave it at that.

22 posted on 04/11/2011 10:59:43 AM PDT by Crichton
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To: Crichton
"so your attacks and misrepresentations are "strained" at best."

If anyone is "attacking" here, it's you.

"No one has suggested Catholic universities hire only orthodox Catholics"

Really? I'm not sure what article you're reading. The "report" (to the extent that it can even be called that), attempts to draw ties between Planned Parenthood and these Catholic universities. How does it do that? By creating a nexus between these academics and Planned Parenthood, and using "guilt by association" as an indicting device of the Universities themselves. If you're not saying Catholic Universities shouldn't hire only orthodox Catholics, then why are you or anyone surprised when some professors aren't orthodox Catholics - in fact, many are atheists, gay, Muslim, Jewish, agnostic or even (gasp) Mormon and may be members of or supporters of causes that directly contradict Catholic teaching.

"I'm trying to be charitable..."

...is what you say just before you accuse me of being an abortionist. That's rich. Contradictory, but rich.

"It seems to me you haven't even read the document compiled by the Cardinal Newman Society and are only interested in continued sneers and smears, so I'll leave it at that."

No, I have read. It says that some professors employed by Catholic institutions actively support Planned Parenthood. To you that's (apparently) a surprise. To me it's not - just like I'm not surprised to see a Jewish Rabbi or Muslim Imam or atheist Physicist when I make my frequent visits to my alma mater.

One of the primary and remarkably valuable points of a worthwhile education experience is to meet and dialogue with people you don't necessarily agree with. As I said earlier, the Catholic educational tradition does NOT resemble a Muslim madrases, with good reason.

23 posted on 04/11/2011 11:45:45 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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