Duquesne University punishes student for online post against homosexuality

[stellina]

harinkj:

I have no idea what NAMBLA is. The Straight/Gay group is hardly equivalent to the KKK, which conducted lynchings.

Hey, you don’t have to help anyone if you don’t. I was just putting out a suggestion.

• Kathie :bowdown:

NAMBLA is a homosexual group that advocates free love between adult men and underage boys. I would think that most sensible people would find this to be as repulsive as the KKK.

There is a difference between helping people and joining organizations that have a thinly veiled agenda of condoning certain things. As I mentioned in my previous post, there are many people at Duquesne as well as alumni that are legitimately concerned that a “Gay/Straight Alliance” would promote acceptance of homosexuality as normal. There are some who would prefer that if the university is so concerned with improving treatment of homosexuals that it should establish a chapter of Courage, a group devoted to helping those with same-sex attraction to lead a chaste life in harmony with the Church’s moral teachings. Still others think that the question of any group that raises the profile of gay life at Catholic schools should not be considered at all because the official teaching of the Church is that homosexuality is a grave sin. Of course, there are people there who believe differently, which is obviously why the whole problem has come up. This situation has already caused deep division among the student body and the alumni & I fear that it will only get worse.

I guess my point is that those who choose not to participate in a “Gay/Straight Alliance” have good reasons of their own, and just because people are not so convinced as you are that doing so would be such a great help is no reason to condemn them. They have as much of a right to their beliefs on the matter as you do, even if they happen to be different.

 

[harinkj]

stellina:

NAMBLA is a homosexual group that advocates free love between adult men and underage boys. I would think that most sensible people would find this to be as repulsive as the KKK.

It sounds criminal like the KKK. What does it have to do with the Gay/Straight Alliance, which is not illegal?

There is a difference between helping people and joining organizations that have a thinly veiled agenda of condoning certain things. As I mentioned in my previous post, there are many people at Duquesne as well as alumni that are legitimately concerned that a “Gay/Straight Alliance” would promote acceptance of homosexuality as normal. There are some who would prefer that if the university is so concerned with improving treatment of homosexuals that it should establish a chapter of Courage, a group devoted to helping those with same-sex attraction to lead a chaste life in harmony with the Church’s moral teachings. Still others think that the question of any group that raises the profile of gay life at Catholic schools should not be considered at all because the official teaching of the Church is that homosexuality is a grave sin. Of course, there are people there who believe differently, which is obviously why the whole problem has come up. This situation has already caused deep division among the student body and the alumni & I fear that it will only get worse.

I guess my point is that those who choose not to participate in a “Gay/Straight Alliance” have good reasons of their own, and just because people are not so convinced as you are that doing so would be such a great help is no reason to condemn them. They have as much of a right to their beliefs on the matter as you do, even if they happen to be different.

I think we do not disagrre on this.

What if this Courage group had 10,000 members on a campus and the Gay/Straight Alliance had 500. So 10,000 Courage people join the Gay/Straight Alliance,not necessarily as formal members, and didn’t act “Holier than Thou.” Wouldn’t that have an influence on the Gay/Straight Alliance people?

• Kathie :bowdown:

 

[Joe_Kelley]

As I recall, one of the priests involved, and imprisoned, in the Boston debacle was a strong supporter of NAMBLA [National Man-Boy Love Association, if I remember correctly].

One of the questions was why his bishop never noticed this.