Thursday, March 9, 2006
Marquette bans feminist play
Megan Twohey reports in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Marquette's vice president of student affairs denied permission to produce the play because "he thought it would be too distracting."
That the MU leadership can act when they want to indicates that when they don't act, it's because they don't want to.
In recent years, the administration has banned student organizations that support gay rights, birth control and military snipers in Iraq on the grounds that they are out of step with Catholic values.
That the MU leadership can act when they want to indicates that when they don't act, it's because they don't want to.
Daniel Maguire ...¶ 3/09/2006 09:48:00 AM
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Hi Terrence:
I go to Marquette Grad School in Theology. I'm glad the university has some Jesuit left in them. I'm not sure how long their reasoning will stand up to the feminist onslaught. "Vagina Monologues" is more than a distraction. In intellectual terms, it is anti-intellectual. In relgious terms, it is anti-religious and blasphemous.
I hope the Marquette leadership can muster some Catholic response to all this or they will not withstand the storm.
I go to Marquette Grad School in Theology. I'm glad the university has some Jesuit left in them. I'm not sure how long their reasoning will stand up to the feminist onslaught. "Vagina Monologues" is more than a distraction. In intellectual terms, it is anti-intellectual. In relgious terms, it is anti-religious and blasphemous.
I hope the Marquette leadership can muster some Catholic response to all this or they will not withstand the storm.
I understand Professor McAdams to say here and here that MU comes across as incoherent on these issues.
If something is arguably anti-religious or even blasphemous, that's less of a problem than if it misrepresents itself as Catholic belief. A university might draw the line to permit the former, but I don't see how it can be Catholic yet do nothing about the latter.
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If something is arguably anti-religious or even blasphemous, that's less of a problem than if it misrepresents itself as Catholic belief. A university might draw the line to permit the former, but I don't see how it can be Catholic yet do nothing about the latter.
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