Boston College Students Vote to Demand Free Condoms, Other Birth Control

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Boston College, a supposedly Catholic institution, held a referendum recently in which eighty-nine percent of the students who participated voted in favor of access to free birth control and condoms on campus.
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So the cheapskate students couldn’t go to the store to buy them themselves? Boston College isn’t really a “Catholic” school, but I suppose it’s a little better than Georgetown.
 
I see your point about this being a supposedly Catholic college, and all that. But, I attended DePaul Univeristy in Chicago and there was a very diverse student population, and I think they would have voted for just about anything, and not even in spite of the school being a Catholic college.

If they were hungry, I suppose they’d vote for free apple pie, too.
 
Here is the actual language of the resolution which was just approved:

Do you agree with the following? Boston College should improve its sexual health education and resources, including but not limited to: affordable testing for sexually transmitted infections (STI), prescription of birth control at Health Services, and availability of condoms on campus.
  • Yes, I agree
  • No, I do not agree
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This is laughable. How spoiled can these private school, silver-spoon-in mouth, fat-cat, children become? If BU does provide free condoms, these children will complain about the brand. What will they demand next? Free beer?
 
I hope the Cardinal lays down the law with Boston College to refuse the students demands or have the college loose it’s Catholic identity.
 
Out of all the colleges and universities that a person can choose to attend, why would someone choose to go to a Catholic school when he or she doesn’t believe in what the Church teaches? Now I know someone will say it’s because of the school’s degree programs, or its proximity to the student, etc. But I wouldn’t attend a non-Catholic religious school and expect them to water down their beliefs just to appease me. If I chose to attend that type of school, I would accept the fact that I will be exposed to their beliefs and practices.
 
In the words of William T. Sherman, “Vox populi? Vox humbug!”

The appropriate response to this referendum? Simple: Just Say NO. No need to explain, because the students will know why, full well.

Blessings,

Gerry
 
The only current-day religious colleges where people expect to get some sort of religious instruction and/or proselytization are the “Christian” schools, like Azusa Pacific University. Catholic schools are free-for-all as the administrators are more concerned with their academic reputation and donors. They should quit while they’re ahead as the only Catholic school ever to make it to the US News top 30 ranking is Notre Dame.

Catholic schools nowadays resemble secular schools, except you might occasionally bump into a priest walking to class and one of the buildings might have a cross on the steeple.

It’s sort of a waste for dioceses to spend money on secular schools isn’t it? Well, at least it isn’t going to ACORN. Money will be better spent on the programs within Catholic chapels in secular schools.
 
Perhaps what BC needs is more emphasis on basic economics. For example, I’ve had students come to class without paper.

Me: “You need paper for this class.”

Student: “But I don’t have any.”

Me: “Yes, I know. Fortunately, there are these places called ‘stores’ where they exchange goods and services for this stuff called ‘money.’ Go to a ‘store’ and spend some ‘money’ on some paper.”

– Mark L. Chance.
 
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If BU does provide free condoms, these children will complain about the brand. What will they demand next? Free beer?
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That someone either pay for an abortion or help raise the child. Afterall, “It’s not my fault; I used protection.”
 
If its protection they want, maybe they should demand free handguns.

Now, if I were a BC student, I would demand Catholicism of a Catholic university. And especially if I were a parent paying big bucks for a Catholic university, I would demand truth in advertising.
 
JPUSC said:
The only current-day religious colleges where people expect to get some sort of religious instruction and/or proselytization are the “Christian” schools, like Azusa Pacific University. Catholic schools are free-for-all as the administrators are more concerned with their academic reputation and donors. They should quit while they’re ahead as the only Catholic school ever to make it to the US News top 30 ranking is Notre Dame.

Catholic schools nowadays resemble secular schools, except you might occasionally bump into a priest walking to class and one of the buildings might have a cross on the steeple.

It’s sort of a waste for dioceses to spend money on secular schools isn’t it? Well, at least it isn’t going to ACORN. Money will be better spent on the programs within Catholic chapels in secular schools.
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You got it. I have several Catholic friends who reluctantly moved their kids from Catholic to Christian schools. Cause the Catholic schools here are not much better than the public ones.

There is a risk that they will leave the church - a couple of the families have. But at least their kids are still Christian. 12 years of Catholic education in this diocese and they’d be died-in-the-wool secularists.

Mostly the Catholic school system is a waste of money IMO. It is quickly collapsing in the US (in the primary and secondary arena) and being replaced by Christian schools. Think that may be a sign from the Holy Spirit?

You may be wary of sending your child to a Christan school, but at least they know what they believe and practice it.

And as Catholic schools close, some Christian schools are offering sort of a “Catholic” track. Its a controversial topic among evangelicals invovled in building a nationwide Chritian primary and secondary educational alternative to public schools but check out your local Chritian school to see if it is open to this.
 
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You got it. I have several Catholic friends who reluctantly moved their kids from Catholic to Christian schools. Cause the Catholic schools here are not much better than the public ones.

There is a risk that they will leave the church - a couple of the families have. But at least their kids are still Christian. 12 years of Catholic education in this diocese and they’d be died-in-the-wool secularists.

Mostly the Catholic school system is a waste of money IMO. It is quickly collapsing in the US (in the primary and secondary arena) and being replaced by Christian schools. Think that may be a sign from the Holy Spirit?

You may be wary of sending your child to a Christan school, but at least they know what they believe and practice it.

And as Catholic schools close, some Christian schools are offering sort of a “Catholic” track. Its a controversial topic among evangelicals invovled in building a nationwide Chritian primary and secondary educational alternative to public schools but check out your local Chritian school to see if it is open to this.
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that’s funny. Catholics have to go to Protestant schools to obtain a Catholic education via a Catholic track??? It is a change from when Catholics burned Protestants at the stake??
 
JimG said:
If its protection they want, maybe they should demand free handguns.

Now, if I were a BC student, I would demand Catholicism of a Catholic university. And especially if I were a parent paying big bucks for a Catholic university, I would demand truth in advertising.
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Shouldn’t Rome insist on that? Benedict basically whitewashed the situation in his visit last year. As JP2 did during his pontificate.

But you can only “grow the deficit” so long before things collapse. As we are seeing more and more in the US Catholic church. Fiddling while Rome burns so to speak.
 
Father_of_9 said:
Out of all the colleges and universities that a person can choose to attend, why would someone choose to go to a Catholic school when he or she doesn’t believe in what the Church teaches? Now I know someone will say it’s because of the school’s degree programs, or its proximity to the student, etc. But I wouldn’t attend a non-Catholic religious school and expect them to water down their beliefs just to appease me. If I chose to attend that type of school, I would accept the fact that I will be exposed to their beliefs and practices.
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They attend exactly because they know the dirty little secret - the majority of Catholic colleges are so in name only, Basically they are secular schools - some like ND with strong undergrad or sports programs.
 
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