Gay Magazine Contrasts Holy Cross (Good) vs Boston College (Bad) for Gays

Warning: The link for this article is to a gay magazine with obviously offensive material.

But the real warning is for good Catholics planning to attend Holy Cross. They have taken a course far away from Catholic teaching on compassionate treatment of gays and into advocacy for activities clearly outside Catholic mortal teaching. It is indeed a fine line.

The ultimate goal of ministering to gays has to be to help them find Christ, to conform their lifestyle with Catholic moral teaching. This is not much different than the Church's and Catholic colleges' responsibility to all students who are called to lead chaste lives outside marriage.

Instead, colleges like Holy Cross have abandoned this mission and left the students in grave peril of damnation and sinfulness by promoting anti-Catholic teaching and organizations like gay clubs and planned Parenthood. The supposed role model at the college, an apostate Jesuit Priest, has much to answer for. Indeed Christ had stern words for those who would scandalize the 'little ones". Something about a millstone. No, the mission of a Christ-centered college would be in direct opposition to something so self-centered as a club that promotes a lifestyle and human definition based on sexual attraction.

A few excerpts:

Keeping the Faith :: GLBT students face adversity at Catholic colleges
by Scott Kearnan
EDGE Boston Contributor
Wednesday Nov 21, 2007

Seen through the eyes of a campus visitor or a promotional brochure,
it would seem that Boston College and College of the Holy Cross share a number
of similarities. Both are competitive schools, ranked among the best
Northeastern colleges by the Princeton Review. Both have beautiful campuses;
acres ofmanicured green grass and gothic architecture. And both have an
esteemed Catholic background, one that is particularly attractive to students
seeking a liberal arts education informed by Jesuit tradition.

But for gay students, these universities are separated by more than the
30 miles between Chestnut Hill and Worcester, Mass. Though Catholic colleges
are united under a common religion, one that is frequently inhospitable to the
needs of the GLBT community, gay students at BC and Holy Cross voice
personal experiences that are worlds apart.

From 2000 to 2004, BC ranked every year on the Princeton Review's list
of schools where "alternative lifestyles are not an alternative," though it
has been absent from the list since holding the No. 5 spot in 2006. And it was
only in 2005, after years of heated debate and an overwhelmingly supportive
student referendum, that Boston College finally added "sexual orientation" to
its official non-discrimination statement.

Note: I'm starting to re-think some of my negative perceptions of BC based on this article. But they may just be lagging and eventually succumb to the pressure tactics like Georgetown and now Holy Cross before them.

Corbman and Kropowensky are co-chairs of Holy Cross' ABiGaLe (Association of
Bisexuals, Gays and Lesbians). At the start of November, the organization hosted
a Rainbow Alliance Week--a series of socials, panels, and even a lecture by a
transgendered speaker--amidst fanfare and support. "We got all of our funding
from the school without question," says Joshua Rodriguez, 19.

Rodriguez is a member of the college's Allies organization,
which cosponsored the series of events. He says that even when the college
interjects Catholicism, it is respectful and within reason."

We had to have a religious faculty member present [at certain events],"
he explains of the limited intervention. "In case people had questions
afterwards."If anything, some suspect that the college's supervision is actually
for the benefit of GLBT students."

The administration is extremely supportive, and always has our back,"
says Corbman of ABiGaLe's experience with university officials. "I think they
have to document what they're doing so that they can defend us...and bring up why it's good."

Note: Holy Cross has gone over the line from compassion and ministry to overt support of clubs based on sexual attraction. Their actions are clearly dangerous to these young peoples' spiritual growth and physical well-being. They condemn them to a life of failure, disease, stigmatization, disappointment and childlessness. Christ offers life. GLBT or whatever they call it offers only death. And Holy Cross has much to answer for it.