The following comes from an April 14 LMU Newsroom article:
President Bill Clinton will deliver the keynote address at Loyola Marymount University’s undergraduate commencement ceremony on May 7, LMU President Timothy Law Snyder, Ph.D., announced today.
“President Clinton is one of the great statesmen of our time, and he will address our students as they embark on the next stage of their lives,” Snyder said. “His commitment to improving the lives of other people, during and beyond his career in U.S. politics, embodies the ethos of becoming women and men with and for others. President Clinton will inspire our graduates as they seek to lead lives of meaning, purpose, and global impact.”
Ask LMU to disinvite President Clinton as 2016 commencement speaker
The following comes from an April 15 RenewLMU post:
Dear President Snyder,
We alumni, donors, parents, faculty, and concerned friends object to your decision to honor President Bill Clinton as LMU’s 2016 commencement speaker. If you as President of LMU treated a 21 year old intern in your office as he did, you would be fired as president and never honored in any way at LMU. Why should the standards be lower for a President of the United States? If LMU cares about sexual harassment, it should not honor someone repeatedly and credibly accused of such activity. Moreover, it is inappropriate in an election year to honor the spouse of a leading candidate thereby politicizing an event that should be unifying. Finally, President Clinton’s steadfast support of abortion on demand, including even partial birth abortion, is incompatible with LMU’s Jesuit emphasis on social justice for all human beings.
We urge you to withdraw your invitation to President Clinton.
To support this effort please sign the petition.
Professor James Hanink retires
The following comes from an April 12 RenewLMU post:
Professor James Hanink served since the 1970s at LMU, excelling especially in the classroom. He assigned numerous essays for students to write and returned them promptly with oceans of red ink as suggested improvements for the next round. His students reported that they were both challenged and edified by his teaching which stretched them to think more concretely about questions both metaphysical and practical. His stories and jokes lightened the philosophical load.
Jim’s scholarly productivity was steady and focused on questions interesting to philosophers in the analytic tradition (such as Elizabeth Anscombe) and the continental tradition (such as Edith Stein). With his colleagues, he generously read and commented on drafts of papers as well as seminar presentations.
Jim was well known, on campus and off, for his concern for the Catholic identity of LMU, especially as it related to issues of justice for human beings waiting to be born. This concern for the most weak and vulnerable in the human family also manifested itself in terms of Jim’s personal involvement with the Mother Teresa’s sisters, the Missionaries of Charity, and Dorothy Day’s Catholic Worker Movement.
Bill to Protect Religious Liberty Nationally Remains in Committee
https://dailysignal.com/2016/04/12/after-300-days-bill-to-protect-religious-liberty-nationally-remains-in-committee/
With 164 cosponsors, the First Amendment Defense Act is a popular piece of legislation in Congress..
Rep. Raúl Labrador, the Idaho Republican who sponsored the bill, is ready for a vote. “The First Amendment Defense Act deserves a vote on the House floor,”
“The time has come for Congress to act at the federal level,” Labrador said. “My bill ensures there is respect for all views of marriage in our free society.”
The act would prohibit federal discrimination against individuals or organizations based on their support for marriage as exclusively…
Counterpoint:
“Victory: Tenn. School Board stands up to LGBT pressure — protects students from high school “gay” club!
https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen3/16a/Franklin-TN-GSA-fight/club-rules-passed_041116.html
Sets strong rules restricting how “gay” club can operate.
Will likely cause club to eventually shut down! Helped by MassResistance..
Why make “regulations” instead of simply removing the club?
To counter this, MassResistance contacted the national pro-family legal group Liberty Counsel, which worked with the School Board & provided a better strategy – a strong new club policy.
In recent years other school districts around the country have crafted strict regulations for allschool clubs – which disallow the…
Apparently Satan wasn’t available!
Statesman? Really? Clinton’s policies in office led to the 2006 financial near-collapse, many companies leaving the USA to manufacture outside our borders, the tech market collapse of 2000 (wiping out much retirement savings), the boldness of terrorists culminating in the 9/11 attack, etc, etc, etc. Of course there is Clinton’s sexual appetite used against several women which led to him being the only elected president IMPEACHED. How about his support of ‘intrinsic evils’? Statesman? NO!
“President Clinton will inspire our graduates as they seek to lead lives of meaning, purpose, and global impact.”
Oh what an inspiration he’ll be. A man impeached by the US House of Representatives, saved by the hair on his chinny, chin, chin by a demoncratic party led Senate Chamber. A man who lied under oath, a man who committed adultery and committed sex scandals in and before residing in our White House. A man who has been above the law while president and governor managing to evade with his criminal wife suspected illegal business practices. A man who rescinded President Reagan’s Mexico City proclamation and paid for abortions world-wide using taxpayer money. A man who pushed the banks and loan companies to take high risks…
Faithful Catholics should stop having any thing to do with these apostate schools and universities. If they do not want anything to do with traditional Catholic teaching, then the faithful should not support them financially or send their children there. There are still a few institutions of higher learning such as Thomas Aquinas College. Those schools hold sacred Catholic teaching and are not worried about having powerhouse athletic programs or Nobel prize winning professors at the expense of upholding the Faith.
Well said Clinton R! STOP funding these CINOS (Catholic in name only schools).
And dear parents, don’t let your children go to a CINOS. Avoid them if you can. Anyway, from the look of many of these articles on schooling, couldn’t religion be taught in the home and by example? It’s basically the Catechism for starters. Add a series of the top 10 Catholic books & everybody may be better off. Just thinking out loud…..
One must remember President Clinton was never convicted on any impeachment charges. Something about innocent until proven guilty?
Ok, wait till June of 2017. Then Mr. Clinton will be the spouse of possibly the first woman President.
He was guilty enough to have been disbarred in Arkansas for lying under oath; there is no question that he was indeed guilty. An impartial Senate would have judged him guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors and removed him from office; the only reason he wasn’t convicted by the Senate was because the unprincipled Democrats who controlled that body unjustly stood by their company man for purely political reasons.
Anyone who supports the Clintons is scum. LMU is a putrid, festering septic tank of filth, which is why the administration sees nothing wrong with inviting Slick Willy to address graduates.
Will Archbishop Gomez speak out against Clinton’s appearance at LMU? Will he state that it is irresponsible for a Catholic institution…
mikem, You said, Something about innocent until proven guilty? Really? Have you forgotten his lies regarding ‘that woman, Ms. Lewinsky’? He WAS proven guilty! By his own mouth & words. And do you think for a minute his wife, really considers him a true ‘spouse’ in the full definition of the word? Wonder how long he will hang around (so devotedly?) when she goes down in flames, as a loser AGAIN. That is if she makes it to the end without being criminally indicted. I did not mean to destroy your dream team but most people would not identify with that couple as an example of true ‘marriage’. It’s more an example of a ‘power couple’ united by past crimes and future financial gain.
John Feeney brilliant !!!! I wish I said that!
While Rome burns the Church leadership dithers as almost daily we find out yet another scandal. This one is exceedingly disgusting when a reprobate of this caliber is speaking at a university identifying itself as Catholic. Twice he vetoed partial birth abortion bans and is a total baby killing abortionist and a known adulterer, great example for our graduating Catholic youth. I suppose if Judas Iscariot was alive he’d get invited to speak at one of our ” Catholic Universities”. This constant evil disgrace at Catholic institutions has got to stop and I guess the only way is the next time your bishop asks for your dollars is to say “sure as soon as you clean up the mess”. Hold back your money still they start chopping off a few…
“President Clinton is one of the great statesmen of our time, and he will address our students as they embark on the next stage of their lives,” Snyder said. HA HA HA
Snyder is totally Irresponsible in his praise of the ‘great IMPEACHED Womanizer’ of our time. President Clinton negates any good he may have done with his disgraceful handling of numerous scandals and affairs. What a terrible example for our youth. Awful choice President Snyder.
mikem,
Research before you speak. Check the history books. Mr. Clinton was Impeached by the US House of Representatives. Unfortunately the weak back-bone demoncratic senators covered for him letting him go above the law. It only takes the US House of Representatives to Impeach a sitting President, but it takes the Senate to remove him.
Giving speeches is what he does for a living these days. How much did he demand from LMU for this commencement address, and did they agree to it?
As I said in my original post, the House impeached Mr Clinton. The Senate did not convict. In fact, two of the three charges had substantial Republican votes for acquittal. One can make a valid case that the Republican impeachment effort was led by a suburban Chicago congressman who was trying to make name for himself while his District was gerrymandered away as Illinois lost seats in the House reapportionment.
The Congressman was an example of why the impeachment process involves both Branches of Congress.