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By Patrick B. Craine
MORAGA, California, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - St. Mary’s College of California is under fire after hosting a commencement speaker this past Sunday who has been a high-profile proponent of same-sex “marriage” and abortion.
Jack O’Connell, California’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, delivered the address at the college’s graduate commencement ceremony on Sunday.
O’Connell was a strong opponent of Proposition 8, which amended California’s constitution to define marriage as being between one man and one woman. During the lead-up to the November 2008 vote, he appeared in TV ads calling on voters to reject the measure. "Prop 8 has nothing to do with schools or kids,” he said. “Our schools aren’t required to teach anything about marriage.”
O’Connell took up his current position in 2002, and will finish his second term this year. Before that he served in the State Assembly as a Democrat from 1982 to 1994, and as a state senator from 1994 to 2002.
In 2005, O’Connell joined California Attorney General Bill Lockyer in filing a lawsuit that sought to overturn a federal law that provided protection for health care workers who did not want to participate in abortions.
Critics have said that hosting O’Connell at the college would appear to be in violation of the U.S. Bishops’ June 2004 statement, ‘Catholics in Political Life’, which stated: “The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.”
lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/may/10052511.html
Now what do you think would have happened had pro-life students chanted and sang through his presentation as pro-abortion ones do when a pro-life speaker is giving a talk on a university campus?What is wrong with the Presidents of these “Catholic” Colleges?
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By Patrick B. Craine
MORAGA, California, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - St. Mary’s College of California is under fire after hosting a commencement speaker this past Sunday who has been a high-profile proponent of same-sex “marriage” and abortion.
Jack O’Connell, California’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, delivered the address at the college’s graduate commencement ceremony on Sunday.
O’Connell was a strong opponent of Proposition 8, which amended California’s constitution to define marriage as being between one man and one woman. During the lead-up to the November 2008 vote, he appeared in TV ads calling on voters to reject the measure. "Prop 8 has nothing to do with schools or kids,” he said. “Our schools aren’t required to teach anything about marriage.”
O’Connell took up his current position in 2002, and will finish his second term this year. Before that he served in the State Assembly as a Democrat from 1982 to 1994, and as a state senator from 1994 to 2002.
In 2005, O’Connell joined California Attorney General Bill Lockyer in filing a lawsuit that sought to overturn a federal law that provided protection for health care workers who did not want to participate in abortions.
Critics have said that hosting O’Connell at the college would appear to be in violation of the U.S. Bishops’ June 2004 statement, ‘Catholics in Political Life’, which stated: “The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.”
lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/may/10052511.html
Now what do you think would have happened had pro-life students chanted and sang through his presentation as pro-abortion ones do when a pro-life speaker is giving a talk on a university campus?What is wrong with the Presidents of these “Catholic” Colleges?