Catholic University (Detroit Mercy) Promotes Abortion Advocates as "Professional Resources"

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DETROIT, MI, December 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A list on the library website for the University of Detroit Mercy - a Catholic university - promotes a number of abortion advocacy groups as “professional resources” for the university’s Women’s and Gender Studies discipline. The site lists organizations such as Planned Parenthood and the pro-abortion National Organization for Women (NOW) as resources for students seeking a professional perspective on Women’s and Gender Studies.

Of the nine organizations listed as professional resources, three (Planned Parenthood, NOW, and League of Women Voters) openly support abortion. Two other organizations listed on the site (American Association of University Women and the National Council for Research on Women) support “reproductive health for women” but do not specifically outline a definition for “reproductive health.”

In describing the different organizations, the site calls Planned Parenthood the “best known pro-choice organization in the U.S.” It goes on to say that PP provides “information about planned parenthood, AIDS, Congressional action, and more.”

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And if one were writing a scholarly piece of quality on gender issues, legal issues, contraception and any number of other things those would all be viable sources. I don’t think this is condoning or supporting any agenda or position.
 
From the Cardinal Neuman Society…I wouldn’t expect much from Detroit Mercy

CATHOLIC COLLEGES PRESENT OFFENSIVE “MONOLOGUES”

While the Church agonizes over revelations of priests’ predatory seduction of young men, dozens of Catholic colleges in the United States were scheduled in February and March to present the vulgar play “Vagina Monologues,” complete with a favorable reminiscence about the lesbian seduction of a 16year-old girl. Each year, the “V-Day College Campaign” encourages campus productions of “Vagina Monologues” to raise funds for charities that prevent violence against women. This year students and faculty announced plans to present the play at 656 colleges worldwide, including 43 Catholic colleges in the US. Among them are several of America’s most prominent Catholic institutions: Boston College; the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts; DePaul University in Chicago; Fordham University in New York; Georgetown University in Washington, DC; Loyola University of Chicago; Saint Louis University; the University of Dayton in Ohio; the University of Detroit-Mercy; the University of Notre Dame in Indiana; and the University of San Francisco. “Vagina Monologues” is a collection of feisty narratives by women celebrating their sexuality, replete with vulgarity and explicit discussions of sexual encounters including lesbian activity and masturbation. In one scene, a woman describes her seduction by a lesbian woman when she was 16 years old, declaring the incident her “salvation.” (This scene, as it is now performed, represents a departure from the original script, in which the girl was only 13 and the seduction was called “a good rape.”)

the play glorifies sexual deviancy and the seduction of girls by older women. At the University of Detroit-Mercy, “Vagina Monologues” is being organized in the middle of Lent by a nun, Sister Sandra Yost, CSJ, an associate professor of electrical engineering. At other colleges, faculty members are also involved in the play through women’s studies programs. On the Internet one can find that Dominican University of California “is proud to announce” its production involving students and faculty.
 
Jesuit Universities have this problem. My wife went to UDM and it was just appalling some of the things we saw and heard that went on there.

Guess you can’t serve two masters… God and the State… at the same time.
 
redrosetea said:
From the Cardinal Neuman Society…I wouldn’t expect much from Detroit Mercy

CATHOLIC COLLEGES PRESENT OFFENSIVE “MONOLOGUES”

While the Church agonizes over revelations of priests’ predatory seduction of young men, dozens of Catholic colleges in the United States were scheduled in February and March to present the vulgar play “Vagina Monologues,” complete with a favorable reminiscence about the lesbian seduction of a 16year-old girl. Each year, the “V-Day College Campaign” encourages campus productions of “Vagina Monologues” to raise funds for charities that prevent violence against women. This year students and faculty announced plans to present the play at 656 colleges worldwide, including 43 Catholic colleges in the US. Among them are several of America’s most prominent Catholic institutions: Boston College; the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts; DePaul University in Chicago; Fordham University in New York; Georgetown University in Washington, DC; Loyola University of Chicago; Saint Louis University; the University of Dayton in Ohio; the University of Detroit-Mercy; the University of Notre Dame in Indiana; and the University of San Francisco. “Vagina Monologues” is a collection of feisty narratives by women celebrating their sexuality, replete with vulgarity and explicit discussions of sexual encounters including lesbian activity and masturbation. In one scene, a woman describes her seduction by a lesbian woman when she was 16 years old, declaring the incident her “salvation.” (This scene, as it is now performed, represents a departure from the original script, in which the girl was only 13 and the seduction was called “a good rape.”)

the play glorifies sexual deviancy and the seduction of girls by older women. At the University of Detroit-Mercy, “Vagina Monologues” is being organized in the middle of Lent by a nun, Sister Sandra Yost, CSJ, an associate professor of electrical engineering. At other colleges, faculty members are also involved in the play through women’s studies programs. On the Internet one can find that Dominican University of California “is proud to announce” its production involving students and faculty.
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This must be an old quote from the Cardinal Newman Society because neither the University of Notre Dame nor the University of Dayton have the Vagina Monologues on campus at this point.
 
This is the response I received from the Archdiocese of Detroit:

*Thank you for contacting us regarding this issue. The Archdiocese of Detroit has been in communication with the University of Detroit Mercy administration regarding the situation, and they are addressing it. If you have more questions, or would like to express your concern directly to university administration, we encourage you to contact the university at 313-993-1000.

Yours in Christ,

Information Desk

Archdiocese of Detroit*
 
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