Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Students walked out of Pence’s speech.
“The move was not totally unexpected, since the student organization WeStaNDFor had shared their plans ahead of time. They believe that the politics Pence, the former Indiana governor who was raised Catholic, represented contradicted the Catholic social virtues Notre Dame extols.”
“Our members lived in South Bend when Mike Pence was governor,” the group said in a statement. “We know all too well how his policies endangered or caused direct harm to public education, health care, women’s rights, the environment, LGBTQ individuals, immigrants and refugees, reproductive rights, local infrastructure, the economy of our state, and more.”
Hang on – reproductive rights? That’s Liberal code speak for “abortion” which Pence opposes but so does the Catholic Church. Doesn’t Notre Dame oppose it, too? Isn’t protecting innocent life a Catholic social value?
Are these kids heretics, Protestants or simply idiots?
(Ahem, Joe – might wanna pick some better comparisons – Your Pro-Life Protestant Editor)
Notre Dame used to stand for something. It could again. If you walk out on the Vice President of the United States during commencement, that indicates you failed to learn the values of inclusiveness, of open-minded discussion, of discovery and examination of issues from all points of view, of basic human respect AND respect for his office; it’s an insult not only to him but to this entire campus who you embarrassed. In consequence, you don’t graduate from Notre Dame. Take your credits someplace where that behavior is tolerated. We’ll share your transcript same as anyone else, you can take your credits over to leftist U and get their diploma but you won’t have one with our name on it. You failed the final exam, and there is no do-over.
Joe Doakes
If only.
Although suffice to say I will never hire any of them, if it’s my call…
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