Jack Kerwick April 16, 2018
In an essay of mine from last week, I brought to readers’ attention the painful fact—particularly painful from this Catholic’s perspective—that even traditionally religious institutions of higher learning have succumbed to the leftist, Politically Correct ideology that dominates much of the Western academic world.
I mentioned the case of Michael Smalanskas, a Providence College senior and Resident Advisor who, while acting within his job description, created an exhibit on a dormitory bulletin board affirming the Church’s teaching that marriage is inherently heterosexual and monogamous: “Marriage…As God Intended It: One Man, One Woman.”
It’s also worth noting that Smalanskas constructed his display approximately a month after other students created a display celebrating “gay marriage.” Yet while the latter—at this Catholic college—encountered zero unpleasant consequences of any kind for their advocacy of a stance radically at odds with that of the Catholic vision that is the mission of their school to further, Smalanskas was subjected to harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence, including rape. Things got so bad that at one point security had to move him from his residence on campus to an undisclosed location.
When Smalanskas and his faculty advisor met with the college’s administration and asked for them to publicly reaffirm Providence’s Catholic identity, publicly underscore that Smalanskas’ perspective on marriage is the Catholic perspective, and publicly and unequivocally disavow the treatment to which Smalanskas had been subjected, administrators—including, most tellingly, the school’s president, Father Brian Shanley—refused.
Smalanskas’ parents attempted to arrange a meeting with Providence administrators, but to no avail........To Read More.....
In an essay of mine from last week, I brought to readers’ attention the painful fact—particularly painful from this Catholic’s perspective—that even traditionally religious institutions of higher learning have succumbed to the leftist, Politically Correct ideology that dominates much of the Western academic world.
I mentioned the case of Michael Smalanskas, a Providence College senior and Resident Advisor who, while acting within his job description, created an exhibit on a dormitory bulletin board affirming the Church’s teaching that marriage is inherently heterosexual and monogamous: “Marriage…As God Intended It: One Man, One Woman.”
It’s also worth noting that Smalanskas constructed his display approximately a month after other students created a display celebrating “gay marriage.” Yet while the latter—at this Catholic college—encountered zero unpleasant consequences of any kind for their advocacy of a stance radically at odds with that of the Catholic vision that is the mission of their school to further, Smalanskas was subjected to harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence, including rape. Things got so bad that at one point security had to move him from his residence on campus to an undisclosed location.
When Smalanskas and his faculty advisor met with the college’s administration and asked for them to publicly reaffirm Providence’s Catholic identity, publicly underscore that Smalanskas’ perspective on marriage is the Catholic perspective, and publicly and unequivocally disavow the treatment to which Smalanskas had been subjected, administrators—including, most tellingly, the school’s president, Father Brian Shanley—refused.
Smalanskas’ parents attempted to arrange a meeting with Providence administrators, but to no avail........To Read More.....
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