Seton Hall University Starts ‘Gay Marriage’ Course, Betrays Catholic Identity |
| By John Ritchie |
| September 13, 2010 |
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| Why is Seton Hall Univ. betraying its Catholic roots? |
Like putting a fox in charge of a chicken coop, Seton Hall University is allowing a pro-homosexual professor to give a course on “The Politics of Gay Marriage.”
When plans for the anti-Catholic course were first announced at the diocesan university, the Most Reverend John J. Myers, Archbishop of Newark, responded. “This proposed course seeks to promote as legitimate a train of thought that is contrary to what the Church teaches. As a result, the course is not in synch with Catholic teaching,” he stated.
However, despite the archbishop’s misgivings the course was not stopped.
Is Seton Hall Training a New Generation of Pro-homosexual Activists?
According to the New Jersey Star-Ledger, the undergraduate course requires students to purchase a book written by pro-homosexual state senators Raymond Lesniak (D-Union) and Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen) titled: “What’s Love Got To Do With It? The Case for Same-Sex Marriage.” Both of the authors sponsored a bill in New Jersey to legalize same-sex “marriage.”
And who teaches the course? Political science professor W. King Mott, a pro-homosexual activist whose affiliation with Lambda Legal, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, and Human Rights Campaign is mentioned on Seton Hall University’s web site.
Blatant Anti-Catholic Bias
Mott’s anti-Catholic bias is clear: “Efforts to condemn the [homosexual] culture itself as Pope John Paul II has done in recent encyclicals only illustrate the futility of orthodoxy in general and the papacy in particular,” he wrote.
“The notion that marriage is a stable and ancient human arrangement, derived from divine revelation, limited to that existing between one man and one woman, and binding save through the permission of a single Church is contrived. It is laughable to consider that human relationships could ever find satisfaction and expression in this single interpretation of marriage,” he said.
Just Cancel the Course
For 2,000 years the Holy Catholic Church has consistently condemned unnatural vice. This teaching is more relevant today given the homosexual movement’s relentless attempt to undermine traditional marriage with counterfeit unions.
In the current struggle to protect God’s marriage, how can Seton Hall possibly allow its classrooms to become outlets of anti-Catholic propaganda? What would Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, the university’s patron, think of this scandal?
TFP Student Action invites its members to contact Seton Hall University with a simple message: “Just Cancel the Course.”
PROTEST HERE
Contact: (Be polite and respectful)
Seton Hall University
Dr. A. Gabriel Esteban, president
400 South Orange Ave
South Orange, NJ 07079
(973) 761-9620
president@shu.edu
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Archbishop John J. Myers is the president of the Board of Regents as well as Chair of the Board of Trustees at Seton Hall. Thank him for opposing this situation.
Archdiocese of Newark
Archbishop John J. Myers
171 Clifton Ave
P.O. Box 9500
Newark, NJ 07104
973-497-4000
Comments
Editor: No, this is not Seton Home Schooling. This university is located in NJ. Seton Home Schooling is out of Virginia.
In fact, that passage indicates that such relationships are a consequence of idolatry. In other words, such relationships are a consequence of disobeying the 1ST COMMANDMENT, a major aspect of the GREATEST COMMANDMENT, to love God with all your being.
Homosexuals need to keep in mind, however that the good news of the gospel is not about how God despises homosexuality. In fact, note that 1 Corinthians 6:11 indicates that certain members of that church had been slaves to such relationships, but had been cleansed in Jesus' name. So these former homosexuals had evidently repented and accepted God's grace to straighten their lives out.
Sadly, Catholic universities are evidently no longer serving God, but the world.
If this quote is remotely accurate and attributable to professor Mott... “Efforts to condemn the [homosexual] culture itself as Pope John Paul II has done in recent encyclicals only illustrate the futility of orthodoxy in general and the papacy in particular,” ...he should be fired immediately thereby illustrating the futility of his erroneous agenda! It seems to me that Catholics still hold the infallibility of a Pope's teaching on faith...or isn't that the case at Seton Hall?
What happened to morality?
"Evil prevails when good men stand by and do nothing."
Just two aphorisms I bear in mind when it comes to attacks on The One True Church, & if this business about the promotion of the gay agenda on a Catholic campus isn't an attack on Catholicism & The Church, I couldn't tell you what an attack on The Church is.
This class needs to be deep-sixed and that "professor" needs to be fired.
Period.
Thank you,
Joan O'Brien
God bless
I am appalled that a Catholic University
founded in the name of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton would offer a course contrary to the Catholic Church. I thought that Catholic Universities were educate persons to be counter cultural in a world of secularism. Why do you call yourself Catholic?
God is looking for a faithful remnant that must be us faithful to the end.
It is easier to take from outside the Church, from within the Church grieves Our Lord, Our Lady
and St Elizabeth Ann Seton. I will also pray for the Archbishop of Newark and pray that the Holy Angels will come to our aid, bound the demons, who are attacking our Father, and call on the Immaculate Heart, for never was it known that anyone who employed her help was left unaided. It means that I will have to pray for this defeat much harder, offer this intention at holy Mass and my Divine Office and pray that God will spare the Church from all of this heresy and schism from Our Catholic Faith
That is as absurd as accepting some fool's ideal of pro-creation with like sex partners.
Thank God that now many very good people and a few good clergy have stepped up to defend our Holy Church's traditional teachings.
A simple question for Seton Hall's leadership: what about this course would be appropriate for a university that calls itself Catholic? I can't imagine a reasonable answer.
We, as Confirmed Catholics, are to stand up and fight against those against our faith. This is the Catholic Church. Jesus' Church He founded and we are members. We are to be the defenders. I realize the Archbishop has misgivings, but he is the Shepherd of his flock which needs close watch to catch the wolf in sheep's clothing. We must stand true to Jesus' teaching and not be influenced by the politics of today.
God created Adam and Eve and commanded to procreate. He did not create 6 people and say "Take your pick". We must obey God's law...not the secular law. Please JUST CANCEL THIS COURSE.
Homosexuality is against natural law and God is the Author and Creator of this law. I will pray for this to change and the grace needed to accomplish it, in the name of Christ Jesus, Amen.
Call it what it is: an assault upon God and faith! Presenting such a course at Seton Hall is reprehensible.
I'm appalled to see our Catholic education facilities are bending toward liberalism to suit the minority lifestyles..
Call it what it is: an assault upon God and faith! Presenting such a course at Seton Hall is reprehensible.
"Now that artificial contraception has enabled sexual pleasure as an end in itself, how can we deny it to homosexuals?"
Which demonstrates that he sees a connection of sexual immorality with artificial contraception and appears to accept fornication and adultery.
cancel the course and fire the professor
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