….Saint Mary’s College in the San Francisco Bay area offers gender-inclusive housing assignments and a host of other LGBTQ resources.
“It is the intention of Campus Housing to make room assignments on how you, the student, identify,” Saint Mary’s website reads.
Saint Mary’s website references the college’s nondiscrimination disclosure as the basis for the policy.
The college states it has a “very active LGBTQIA student body” and refers to a list of what makes a college “safe” for LGBTQ students, including gender-neutral housing and bathrooms, access to transgender health care, and “signs of pride” around campus such as rainbow flags and pink triangles.
Saint Mary’s is named as “one of the most LGBT friendly Catholic campuses in the country” by New Ways Ministry, an organization that advocates for changing the Catholic Church’s teachings on same-sex marriage.
The college’s women’s center, intercultural center, and student-run PRIDE club on campus frequently host “queer” events highlighting and celebrating the LGTBQ community.
Saint Mary’s did not respond to requests for comment.
The above comes from a Sept. 9 story in Catholic World Report.
Fake Catholic school. Simple as that.
Homosexuality is of Satan. Joe Biden just appointed a gay satanist to be the monkeypox czar. Democrats are insane and evil. LGBT does not belong in the Church. No Catholic school should be LGBT friendly. It’s of Satan.
Dear Satan. Please read what the Catholic Church says about homosexuality. Hint: it’s not “of Satan”.
Ah, but it is… homosexuality is of sin and sin is of Satan. Please read the Bible, church lady.
Read the catechism. It is not.
Fr. James Martin, you can use your real name when you post.
It is a sin that cries to heaven for vengeance….it IS from Satan
There are particular mortal sins that are so evil that they are said to be sins that cry to heaven for vengeance: murder (Gn 4:10), sodomy (Gn 18:20-21), oppression of the poor (Ex 2:23), and defrauding workers of their just wages (Jas 5:4).
https://www.catholic.com/qa/what-are-sins-that-cry-to-heaven-for-vengeance-and-sins-against-the-holy-spirit
Wow…edgy and brave….nothing like an institution of higher learning taking a risky stand against the establishment…boy I bet they’re just bracing for all of the backlash and protests…phew!
What order runs this college?
Did you mean what disorder?
The so-called Christian Brothers, who may be neither. How can they be brothers if the don’t know what men, brothers and fathers are?
What is a woman? Who can play on their “women’s” sports teams and use “women’s” restrooms and locker rooms?
Does their FB post mean they’re no longer speciocentric and have checked their homo sapien privilege?
Do they offer classes for canines?
The order continues its decline, with last year only about 3,000 Christian Brothers remaining.
A lie is a lie, even if everyone believes it.
So true. Especially, if it has to do with top secret documents that could compromise our national security.
Good of them to let you know before you enroll.
If you click on resources, it goes to the Center for Women and Gender equity page.
Click on references to go to the student Life page.
Click on states for LGBTQIA concerns.
The link lists takes you to moneygeek website.
Women’s center is the same as the first link.
Intercultural center takes you to the page for the intercultural center.
PRIDE takes you to ST. Mary’s College PRIDE facebook page.
Highlighting link takes you to theic instagram page which seems to be from Delphine Intercultural Center.
As does the final link, celebrating.
CCD promotes this stuff editing out the criticism of it that is in the original article..
A very sorry fate for the once mighty Gay-els.
What a convenience for guys who want easy hook-ups. Just say you “feel like a girl” and voila! Start rooming with a chick!
Saint Mary’s College of California, as a Catholic College, does not condone sexual relations by unmarried students and may take disciplinary action when the College has knowledge of such conduct. The College also prohibits the cohabitation by students who are dating partners, regardless of gender, in College-sponsored housing and while participating on off-campus College-sponsored events, classes, and programs.
me oh my, are you serious? LOL ROTFLOL “Saint Mary’s College… may take disciplinary action when the College has knowledge of such conduct.” Can you or anyone name the last time that happened? Maybe back when Archbishop Joseph Alemany was in charge? Do you see New Ways Ministry or the college advocating chastity, which is for all, straight, gay or confused, single or married (which can only be one man and one woman)?
And, note the caveat, ” students… in College-sponsored housing and while participating on off-campus College-sponsored events.” So, kids, head across the street on your own and hook up.
And, what about faculty and staff?
What about the Ten Commandments, the teachings of Jesus and Christian moral law and virtue?
You should support them.
“In the 1960s at St. Mary’s College, Moraga, near Oakland, California, five philosophy professors — Dr. McArthur, Dr. John Neumayr, Dr. Frank Ellis, Mr. Marc Berquist, and Br. Edmund Dolan, F.S.C. — observed with great concern the rapid disintegration of Catholic higher education in the United States. Their observations engendered a series of conversations, which culminated in the drafting of A Proposal for the Fulfillment of Catholic Liberal Education, the founding document of Thomas Aquinas College.”
https://www.thomasaquinas.edu/about/mission-history/brief-history
Jesus always accepted and welcomed and loved those on the margins. Why shouldn’t Catholic schools do the same? They wouldn’t be Catholic if they didn’t welcome and accept and love the marginalized. Love your neighbor.
The loving, accepting Lord & His disciples did not run a bordello.
Neither is St. Mary’s.
The Lord does, and we should, love and respect all people. (I’m not sure what you mean by “accept.”) Yet, He did not, and we should not, “accept” or condone sinful behavior. That is an important distinction. One should not take pride in one’s self, especially one’s mental illness, which is what gender dysphoria is, or disordered sexual attractions, including “straight” promiscuity. It’s not loving to encourage, even if by silence, sinful behavior. Sin leads to death. See Romans 6:23. Let’s love enough to charitably speak the truth with those struggling with issues of sexuality.
The Lord does, and we should, love and respect all people. (I’m not sure what you mean by “accept.”) Yet, He did not, and we should not, “accept” or condone sinful behavior. That is an important distinction. One should not take pride in one’s self, especially one’s mental illness, which is what gender dysphoria is, or disordered sexual attractions, including “straight” promiscuity. It’s not loving to encourage, even if by silence, sinful behavior. Sin leads to death. See Romans 6:23. Let’s love enough to charitably speak the truth with those struggling with issues of sexuality.
I hope giving room assignments based on how someone identifies does not mean that they will put a transgender male in rooms with biological males. Someone will get hurt. The university will be sued.
I hope the university knows that most transitioning people do not have surgery, especially not at the age people attend college.
Even biological women at that age are naive and too trusting.
These are teenagers with the judgement of teenagers.
Please, university, be the adult in the room that can see all the bad things that can happen and be responsible.
Don’t worry about appearing judgy. Keep people safe.