Holy Cross Theology Professor Says Jesus Was ‘Drag King’ With ‘Queer Desires’

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Is Gonzaga in Spokane this way? I have thoughts of attending for a law degree but it’ll scare me off if I’m defending real Church teaching from a crazy “theology” professor…
 
Ironically, if anyone dare respond to this insanity, you will be accused of sexual obsession.
How many times have you heard: “Why are you Catholics so obsessed with sex?”
 
You’re not really going to discuss Church teaching in law school anyway.
 
I know from my dad that Gonzaga required theology during his time at Gonzaga. He was nowhere near the priesthood.
 
Yeah, I can’t imagine any law school requiring theology as part of the JD. maybe the undergraduate college required it for everyone though
 
Probably. I think he said it was in his undergrad. Either way, it worries me that there aren’t more serious steps taken to suppress these heresies. They’re reaching a young audience of impressionable Catholics that may think that they’re speaking real doctrine.
 
Because he looks like a bit of a goof ball who may have “queer desires” himself.
 
It’s so depressing that “catholic” colleges aren’t even Catholic anymore. So sad.
 
They haven’t been for a long time, in many cases. But then again, our society hasn’t been Christian in the U.S. for a long time, either, and the various Christians within society, including Catholic Christians, have been denying our faith for decades and decades. It won’t last --either we’ll have gone to the bad so much that Christ will return quite soon, in order to save as many as possible who will repent literally at the last second–or else the pendulum will, as it so often has, start to swing back as people who have been starved and fed poison reject it, hunger for the Truth, and are fed and feed others. I know we don’t deserve the mercy (true mercy, i.e. repentance) that Christ offers, but I pray people will come to Him.
 
Spyridon said:
Because he looks like a bit of a goof ball who may have “queer desires” himself.
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C’mon, man, this is beneath you. Don’t get me wrong, I think what he said was abhorrent. But making fun of how someone looks (especially when, as far as I can tell, he looks like a relatively normal guy wearing a button down shirt and jeans…pretty sure I own that shirt, actually…) is kind of cheap and petty. And insinuating that he has “queer desires” is pretty ugly, too.
 
1Lord1Faith said:
Professor Liew wrote these things almost a decade ago.
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I think the student writing the piece was looking for the most stark example of the professor’s thinking. He hasn’t retracted as nearly as I can tell.
 
Oy vey. Yet another example of why freedom of speech cannot be absolute, even in academe.
 
Sounds like a redux of one of the early gnostic herecies.

Peace and God Bless
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Sounds like the “professor” is projecting to me…

Either way, I hope he is kicked out. That nonsense is so completely opposed to Catholicism that even an in-name-only Catholic College should take notice.
 
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Next week they kick off a day of giving. From the email
“On April 6, let’s come together and show the world what it means to be Holy Cross Crusaders!”
Not a good start.
( I’m a parent paying large sums of money- apparently for tripe)
 
The speculations seem to me to be not based on evidence. So as historical speculations they can be put aside. But I am curious as to why Catholics would be offended by these speculations. If they were true it would mean that Jesus had transexual tendencies. If these were sinful, that does not change our understanding of Jesus as we know he was tempted. If these were not sinful, then this would just be further evidence of Jesus embracing the human condition in its fullness. I cannot imagine a transsexual person considering becoming a Catholic feeling welcome as a result of reading this thread.
 
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He wants the college to ask Liew to publicly disavow his writings mentioned in this thread.
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The college responded as mentioned in the article you posted. I’ll paste the response so that everyone can easily find it:
A statement from school spokesman John Hill said the “decade-old work” was not intended for undergraduates and has not been assigned in the classroom.

“It was an intentionally provocative work, not a statement of belief, meant to foster discussion among a small group of Biblical scholars exploring marginalization. No one has made a complaint about the content of Professor Liew’s classes in his four years at Holy Cross,” he said.

Jesuit Father Philip Boroughs, president of the College of the Holy Cross, said Liew is a dedicated teacher, engaged scholar, and a man of faith.
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This is reasonable to me. At times it is required to take positions that do not match your beliefs in order to propel a discussion forward. It’s a tool of argumentation. It’s reserved for those who are capable of understand its purpose (other academics not undergraduates). It’s a widely used practice across all disciplines.

In other words, this is much ado about nothing.
 
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