Posted on 01/09/2019 6:27:57 PM PST by marshmallow
* Students claim John Finnis, 77, attacked same-sex relations in essays published
* Campaigners launched a petition and say his presence threatens gay people
* However, Oxford has supported his right to academic freedom
Students are demanding Oxford University sacks a Roman Catholic professor for allegedly criticising homosexuality.
They claim essays published by John Finnis, 77, emeritus professor of law and legal philosophy, attack same-sex relations and are ‘discriminatory’.
Campaigners say his presence on campus threatens gay people, and a petition demanding his removal from his academic position has 350 backers so far.
However, Oxford has supported his right to academic freedom.
Professor Finnis, pictured, is one of the world’s foremost thinkers on the philosophy of natural law, and is said to have mentored Right-wing US judge Neil Gorsuch, appointed to the US Supreme Court by Donald Trump in 2017.
Students claim that the professor attacked homosexuality in essays published in 1994 and 2011.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Ah yes, the beautiful face of “tolerance” rears its head again.
Metaphorically burning the heretic at the stake.
If the students don’t like this professor, they can quit and study elsewhere.
All any Christian need say is that their existence
is a supreme sacrifice in Christ
That a Christian is under submission to Christ.
That the Bible, to them, is The Word Of God
They Must Honor God’s Word
And God’s Word has very specific things it says about Homosexual acts
It is not my/your opinion that matters
It is not, ultimately, the Laws of Caesar that matter
Only God’s Word, and our relationship with Jesus
If they don’t like that, tell them to take it up with THE BOSS
The students are being discriminatory against the professor’s opinion.
These are tomorrow’s catholics that will insist on the catholic church sanctioning homosexuality and married homosexual priests. It’s coming, just like I’ve been saying. Either Frankie or his replacement will make it so.
John Finnis is brilliant. His “Moral Absolutes” book from 1991 is clear and concise.
Virtue is always accepted and vice is always rejected.
A person with same sex attraction has a temporary trauma that can be addressed and removed. Then he can go back to being a happy straight person.
People who protest the brilliant author of “Moral Absolutes” show off their vice and lack of reasoning skills.
Among their group were also Germain Grisez, Joe Boyle and Peter Lee at Franciscan Univ.
” Metaphorically burning the heretic at the stake. “
Well. maybe not so metaphorically. Antifa, BLM. and the entire MSM fascist Left can’t wait to start the killing fields again.
| 2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved. |
Scaring homos. Oh, my.
The professor is a Catholic. Nothing in the article says that his critics are Catholic. At Oxford, most of them almost certainly aren’t.
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