The following comes from a July 21 Cardinal Newman Society article by Adam Cassandra. For background on the story, see CalCatholic article, More tragic LMU news.
After being suspended from her job following student accusations she committed a “hate crime,” an employee of the Jesuit-run Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles has been reinstated, her attorneys announced this week.
The supposed “hate crime” in question involved a calm and reasoned defense of Church teaching on human sexuality by the employee in a conversation with students on campus during “Rainbow Week” — a celebration of the “LGBT community” sponsored by the University’s LGBT Student Services Office.
Gigi Kurz, a 15-year employee of LMU who works in the alumni office, enlisted the help of the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund (FCDF) after being suspended by administrators. “We are proud to announce that LMU has restored Gigi Kurz to her position without any loss of pay or benefits,” FCDF announced in an email this week. Kurz’s name had previously been withheld in all reports about her conflict with the University.
Charles LiMandri, FCDF’s president and chief counsel noted there was no apology made to Kurz from the University, “although there should have been.”
“I was terrified when I was suspended from my job of 15 years for having a simple, but straight forward, adult conversation with LGBT college students,” Kurz said in a letter released by FCDF. “I was accused of a hate crime the next morning in the campus newspaper, because I did not agree with the LGBT on transgenderism, and for sharing Catholic morality on the subject.
“I felt I was thrown in the twilight zone,” she continued, “where I couldn’t find reality anymore. This was at LMU, a Catholic university, and yet the school immediately isolated me and sent me home and cut me off from my co-workers of 15 years.”
Wonderful, but the accusations should never have been filed in the first place.
Anne, I agree. From every report she just calmly, respectfully disagreed with he students who were publicly demonstrating and to my mind invited debate. I wonder if because she was support staff rather than faculty, percieved “class” was a factor.
Universities’ war against truth
https://life.spectator.co.uk/2016/06/universities-war-against-truth/
Young people today are very reluctant to assume that anything is certain=
= ‘gender’ has now replaced ‘sex’ in all official documents and the suggestion that sexual differences are fixed has been relegated to the class of forbidden thoughts.
Since gender is a social construct, people must be free to choose their own and anyone who implies the opposite is a bully and a fanatic.
Even a pioneering feminist like Germaine Greer is forbidden to speak on campus lest her belief in real and objective sexual differences should threaten –
Just where this will end is anyone’s guess. One by one, all the old certainties are being denounced…
Universities’ war against truth
https://life.spectator.co.uk/2016/06/universities-war-against-truth/
Young people today are very reluctant to assume that anything is certain, and this reluctance is revealed in their language…
Just where this will end is anyone’s guess. One by one,all the old certainties are being denounced as ‘isms’ and ‘phobias’
You thought that there is a real and objective distinction between men and women? ‘Transphobia’.
The one sure thing about the world in which we live is that if you believe that there are real and objective distinctions between people, you had better keep quiet about it, especially if it is true.
I may be wrong but I think in a few years the Gigis in academia will be fired with impunity. Academia’s descent into intellectual madness is far too advanced to be stopped. LMU caved because at that particular institution the degeneration of thought had not kept pace with the degeneration of culture, to which LMU is fully committed. When that institution catches up with the intellectual vacuity of academia at large, propped up by a corrupt judiciary, she will have blood.
Indeed Dan – The movement is towards a New Dachau (concentration / extermination camp) where “Tolerance Macht Frei’ – meaning if you will only denounce your Faith and the Church, you may be paroled…
Provided you are ‘honestly’ certain – that Your God Given Gender is ‘assigned’, and other such Orwellian doublethink, er, um, Tolerance Talk.
The First Amendment is being re-defined by the university management and faculty. There i also pressure from coddled students who have never been exposed to the rougher edges of real life. Today’s definition goes something like this: Freedom of speech is ok as long as it doesn’t offend someone or has the potential to offend or doesn’t agree with the new certain norms of gender and same sex marriage, etc. Universities now have “safe zones” where students can go if they feel uncomfortable or threatened by something said in class or on the quad. The old rule of thumb about not yelling fire in a crowded theater no longer applies. If you offend me it is probably a hate crime in the New World order.
Not to worry – After the legislature and courts in our one party state have joined with the Abomination in mandatory ‘tolerance’ pogroming.
It will once again be a Hate Crime to Speak the Truth – particularly if it in any way quotes the Teachings of the Catholic Church
The Purpose of Political Correctness is – Purpose of ‘Political Correctness’ is:
“…Not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate;
And therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better.
When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity.
To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate…
– assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself.
One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed.
A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
Dr. Anthony Daniels (as Theodore Dalrymple)
Scratch a liberal to uncover the fascist.
Fr. Richard, Fascists are reactionaries, ie: right wing, not left wing. Remember WWII and post war era; Communists were left wing and Fascists right wing.
You missed Fr. Richard’s point entirely.
Loyola Marymount should think about a re-brand campaign. Let’s start with a new name. The old one suggests Catholicism, stuffy doctrine, dusty tradition.
The “Unloyola – A U for you. “
They did rebrand: note how infrequently the university refers to itself as “Loyola Marymount University”; it refers to itself almost exclusively as LMU. The cross and the chapel were removed from the university’s logo. It’s now just LMU LA.
I call it Lucifer’s Modernist University.
Proclaiming the word of God is not a hate crime. The hate crime would have occurred if the word of God was not enunciated by Gigi Kurz to the woman who tried to destroy Miss Kurz. The woman in question now has no excuse when she is in front of the judgement seat of God that she did not know the truth. With regards to your comment Dan when you say that in the future she would be fired with impunity, people are already being fired for not be politically correct. Remember what we are told in the Holy Bible by Jesus Christ that if they persecuted him those that follow and defend the word of God would like Jesus be persecuted as well. We are also told in scripture that they will kill some of us for proclaiming the word of God thinking…
The Watch…. you might want to check Canada where a Christian College is again being threatened with loss of accreditation because it makes students sign a compact upholding the teachings of their church while they are students. The equivalent of our Bar Association does not want to allow their law school students to practice because they might be religious and the local education establishment doesn’t want their teachers certified because they might be anti LGBT. Its in the courts right now.
I was worried about this poor lady, when I first read about her case! This “Catholic” school is DEVIANT and DISHONEST!! Catholic parents should not be saving their money, or encouraging their kids to get scholarships, to attend such horrific “Catholic” schools! I am glad this lady got her job back– but I could not work for a dishonest Jesuit school, myself! So FAITHLESS to Christ! “Non serviam,” said Lucifer, as he fell from grace into the dark chasm of Hell, taking down with him, many fallen angels! “Non serviam,” said the Jesuits, after Vatican II!! Don’t trust them!
Buck up LMU. If you insist on calling yourself Catholic, teach and defend the faith! First you suspend, then reinstate, clearly you fear the right and the left. How about just fear of the Lord? Teach truth or take down the crucifixes and become a condo complex.
Former President Bill Clinton was the commencement speaker in May. That shows you what a fraud of a Catholic university LMU is and what it values.
I don’t think the staffer was reinstated because the school fears the “right”. I think the staffer was reinstated because the school feared a lawsuit.
Why America’s Christian leaders tolerate Trump
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/donald-trump-christian-leaders-226075
The leadership of the religious right once looked like a promising stronghold for the Never Trump movement, a bastion of the GOP deeply at odds with a man who is heretical on many of the political and personal values the country’s most prominent Christian leaders hold dear.
But in an exclusive roundtable conversation with POLITICO, five of America’s most influential religious conservatives said they are committed to supporting the GOP nominee, and some committed to activating their extensive grass-roots networks on his behalf this fall.
For them, Never Trump is not an option.
Ralph Reed of the Faith and…