Black Mass Cancelled Amid Uproar As Cultural Studies Club Withdraws Sponsorship

The Crimson ^ | May 12, 2014

[Cicero]

Thanks, good to hear. I was class of ‘57. When I joined the Catholic Club after converting, it was just recovering from Fr. Feeney, who was excommunicating for saying that no one but Catholics could be saved. I remember hearing him preaching to that effect once or twice on the Boston Common.

I was Treasurer of the Catholic Club when we persuaded the Archbishop to allow us to buy a new building to house the club, since Fr. Feeney had made off with the old one. Until we met with him he was nervous that there might be a repetition of the Fr. Feeney episode.

After I left, I kept in touch with the Club with letters and newsletters until it went so far to the left under a new chaplain (the days of Liberation Theology) that I dropped contact. Good to hear that things have gotten better.

[sitetest]

Dear xzins,

It isn't altogether important what you think or what I think is reasonable or not. I understand where you'd place limits, and they're not much different from where I'd place limits. My point is, no one is asking us.

Regrettably, people are actually rationally arguing that if I hold up a sign with some words on it to the effect of, “Abortion kills an innocent human being.” that they have a right to destroy my sign and to attack me. My sign is being presented as the mirror image of this “black mass” business. And, if the “black mass” is held privately (which this mass was, ostensibly), then my sign is even worse than the “black mass.”

I don't find that reasonable, but unfortunately, enough people do that this sort of reasoning is becoming standard operating procedure in many places, including in many university communities.

sitetest

[xzins]

Sometime a solid parallel is a better argument than words. Demonizing/Dehumanizing versus Protesting.

Wonder what would fit?