Notre Dame Pays Student Expenses to D.C. March for Homosexual ‘Marriage’

ARLINGTON (Cardinal Newman Society) - The University of Notre Dame gave financial assistance to five students to participate in Sunday’s national gay rights demonstration, which was organized in part to advocate homosexual “marriage,” a campus newspaper has reported.

The “National Equality March” on Sunday, October 11, in Washington, D.C., was sponsored by Equality Across America, which aims to build a national grassroots network asserting homosexual couples’ “right to marry” as well as other demands. The Catholic Church believes that marriage is possible only between a man and a woman.

“Faithful Catholics will ask whether Notre Dame has learned its lesson from the scandalous commencement ceremony last spring,” said Patrick J. Reilly, President of The Cardinal Newman Society. “What university seeking to reassure families of its Catholic identity would pay for students to attack the family and oppose Catholic teachings on marriage?”

Students from Notre Dame’s Progressive Student Alliance (PSA) petitioned the Student Activities Office and were granted funding to travel to and participate in the demonstration. The Notre Dame students marched two miles across D.C. and then joined gay rights activists for a Capitol Hill rally.

The president of the Progressive Students Alliance told The Observer, “The fact that we were University-approved was surprising but it was a wonderful surprise. The University hasn't always been entirely receptive in the past.”

"Faithful Catholics will ask whether Notre Dame has learned its lesson from the scandalous commencement ceremony last spring,”
WE REMEMBER VERY WELL that "Christianity is under attack from within our own Catholic universities,” said President of The Cardinal Newman Society. “The bad news continues, perhaps appropriately on the day when we recall Christ’s terrible agony in the Garden of Gethsemane. We need Catholics worldwide to draw the line, here and now, by joining more than 255,000 witnesses for the Faith at www.NotreDameScandal.com.”
“StaND Against Hate Week,” to occur April 14 through 17 2009, is co-sponsored by Notre Dame’s Gender Relations Center, student government and University Counseling Center. Notre Dame also will participate in the national “Day of Silence” on April 17, an event to oppose harassment of homosexual students in schools. Despite the worthy goal, the national event is used by the sponsoring Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network to promote school curricula that equate “sexual identity” with racial and ethnic differences, without clarification about the moral and health consequences of homosexual activity.

Ted | 10/14/2009

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