Fordham Alumni, Catholics Support Petition Opposing Ethics Award for Justice Breyer

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MANASSAS, Va, October 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In just two weeks, more than 1,100 Fordham University alumni and others have signed a student-sponsored petition opposing the Catholic University’s plan to honor Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer with a legal ethics award. The open letter to…

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From the article.

Justice Breyer wrote the majority opinion in the 2000 case striking down state laws banning the horrific practice of partial-birth abortion, a decision that has been described by pro-life advocates as “legislating from the bench” and comparable to the infamous Dred Scott decision.

Nevertheless, Fordham is still scheduled to present its Fordham-Stein Ethics Prize to Justice Breyer at a dinner in New York City on October 29.

Fordham Respect for Life (RFL) students report that several Jesuit priests, faculty and staff members have expressed support for their protest of the award. The Cardinal Newman Society (CNS) has posted the Fordham RFL petition online to encourage alumni and other Catholics to indicate their support.

Seem inappropriate for a Catholic school to give a pro-abortionist judge an ethics award.

 

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I am really surprised.