tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post8101447120893130513..comments2024-03-28T20:30:10.681-04:00Comments on southern orders: CIRCLING THE WAGONS, PART IIFr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-15435893823778258982012-05-16T11:36:10.353-04:002012-05-16T11:36:10.353-04:00Vanderbilt has long been a feminist infested, sist...Vanderbilt has long been a feminist infested, sister boy dominated, Leftist institution. I went there. I know.Genehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06672484450736725268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-16839599566847934032012-05-14T11:40:45.670-04:002012-05-14T11:40:45.670-04:00I haven't read the actual policy itself, but I...I haven't read the actual policy itself, but I don't think the problem is that the school is requiring the society to have homosexual members with the society refusing to. There are a lot of homosexual Catholics who are attempting to live chaste lives--Google the group Courage to learn more.<br /><br />The policy, as I understand it, would require the Catholic Society to accept non-Catholics not only as members but as official leaders of the organization. Interestingly, this requirement doesn't extend to Vanderbilt's Greek organizations.<br /><br />I grudgingly agree that Vanderbilt can probably do this. Students have a right of association (see NAACP v. Alabama, 1958), and Vanderbilt is being mean-spirited about not recognizing that. (You'd especially think a college campus would be a place interested in furthering things like the First Amendment, but in my personal experience as a college educator, liberals on college campuses can be the worst fascists of all.) nevertheless, though mean-spirited, the school has rights too, and here it is probably acting within those rights.<br /><br />In the end this is probably the best solution. Better to have an independent existence than to consent to being dictated to in matters of religious belief by a secular authority.<br /><br />As for the birth control ads in Catholic hospitals . . . this is precisely why Catholic organizations shouldn't accept public funds. It chills their civil liberties.Hammer of Fascistshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08647227447212096501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-51579506374094917222012-05-14T10:41:22.063-04:002012-05-14T10:41:22.063-04:00I wonder if the policy applies to Black student an...I wonder if the policy applies to Black student and religious groups or Muslim ones...how about feminist groups? Probably doesn't matter because no one would want to attend those, anyway...LOL!Genehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06672484450736725268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-73858414237461102752012-05-14T07:44:41.741-04:002012-05-14T07:44:41.741-04:00I understand that Catholic Universities and hospit...I understand that Catholic Universities and hospitals are required to put up posters advertising birth control because they take public funds. Would that apply in this case?<br /><br />I think Vanderbilt is being very disingenuous about this, but if they want to have a non-religious establishment, then I think it is a good idea to support it. That would, in theory, allow Catholic Universities to conduct their affairs as they see fit.<br /><br />I read an article recently that the governor of Tennessee declined to require Vanderbilt to allow religious groups at risk of state funding. HAs anyone tried to press on that issue?rcghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09131930849106490711noreply@blogger.com