Georgetown pro-marriage group faces sanctions after students complain

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Washington D.C., Oct 20, 2017 / 09:53 am (CNA).- A pro-marriage student group at Georgetown University is in danger of being defunded and barred from campus facilities, after fellow students have petitioned that it be recognized as a “hate group.”
The Hoya, Georgetown’s student newspaper, reported on Oct. 20 that Love Saxa, a student organization promoting Catholic doctrine regarding marriage, will undergo a Student Activities Commission hearing on Oct. 23, to defend itself against charges that the group fosters hatred and intolerance. The hearing is a response to a petition filed by a student-senator in the Georgetown University Student Association, and supported by leaders of gay pride student organizations at Georgetown.

Love Saxa intends to petition for a delay before the hearing takes place. The group told CNA they were only officially informed of the hearing’s date on the evening of Oct. 19, giving them an insufficient amount of time to prepare. The group also says they haven’t been given a copy of the petition, or an exact rendering of the charges against them.
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Georgetown University is about as Catholic as Planned Parenthood these days.
 
There are 2 dangerously misleading labels on Georgetown: Catholic and Jesuit.

I think Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist and an alumnus, had filed some kind of canon law argument that the Archdiocese be required to remove the university’s Catholic identity. Did anything come from that action, is it still pending in some form?

On the archdiocesan website there is a statement of regret regarding the university’s appalling invite to a Planned Parenthood speaker in 2016, but the university is still listed as a Catholic university by the archdiocese.

I believe the university is so secularized, and has enough secular fund sources, that it is beyond being influenced by Catholics. All Catholics can do is put pressure on the archdiocese to pull off the Catholic label, and put pressure on the Jesuits to pull off the Jesuit label. If you get a request for money from the Jesuits, anywhere, send them a letter that you will not support any Jesuit ministry until the Jesuits pull the Jesuit label off Georgetown.

Georgetown is not the only problematic Jesuit institution, but in the US it is the most prominent, and perhaps the worst. It is tempting to say, well, my old high school or my Jesuit parish is pretty good in themselves, so I will support them. But those good Jesuits are the only ones who can potentially work to pull the Jesuit name off a bad institution. Ask them to act, through the structures of the Order.

You might say, the good priests at my alma mater, or my faithful, orthodox Jesuit parish, are not at fault, and do much good for the Church. But in the long run that good alma mater or faithful Jesuit parish will be damaged by what GU is doing to the Jesuit identity. Those faithful Jesuits can press on their superiors, who can press on the higher superiors that the Jesuit label at GU is killing us, here in Oregon, Florida, or wherever.
 
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I would refrain from criticizing the action, because of the there is no definition of the word “marriage” as used in the announcement. Are they opposing civil contracts between people of the same sex? Or are they supporting the sacredness of Catholic marriage? Lets go slow on this, folks.
 
The group in question supports a Catholic understanding of sex and marriage. Because of this adherence to Catholic teaching, they are accused of being a hate group.
 
Catholics being run off a “catholic” university for being too catholic by secularists…

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Another article about this matter, from the Federalist. The group against which the complaints are filed seems to be simply too Catholic. Is Georgetown University Catholic or not?


“Sifting through the allegations leveled in the complaint and editorial, Love Saxa’s offense becomes abundantly clear. The group holds views that are unapologetically consistent with Catholic doctrine. Specifically, Love Saxa agrees with the Catholic Church that sex belongs within the context of a marriage relationship, and that marriage is the union of one man and one woman.”
 
Exactly. Enough of this “go slow”. The forces attacking the faith aren’t “going slow.” They’re accelerating their efforts.
 
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