Georgetown urged to pull Sebelius from commencement
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WASHINGTON - The Cardinal Newman Society has sent an open letter to Georgetown University President John DeGioia strongly urging him to not allow U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to speak during Georgetown’s commencement.
The organization’s objection based on Sebelius’ support for requiring employers — including schools and universities — to provide access to contraceptive coverage in employee and student health plans. Currently, the letter has garnered 27,000 signatories.
“It is scandalous and outrageous that America’s oldest Catholic and Jesuit university has elected to provide this prestigious platform to a publicly’ pro-choice’ Catholic,” the group wrote. The letter also says that bestowing the honor of speaking at Georgetown commencement to Sebelius, “insults all Americans… especially [it insults] faithful Catholics and their bishops, who are engage in the fight for religious liberty against abortion.”
DeGioia has also come under fire from the top archbishop in the Washington, DC area, Cardinal Donald Wuerl.
The Cardinal Newman Society, according to its website, was founded in 1993 to, “help renew and strengthen Catholic identity in Catholic higher education.”
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Wow! Every Catholic University and school should never teach about birth control. Every Catholic doctor should post a sign that he or she is not allowed to issue birth control pills because of his or her religious beliefs. Pharmacies should not allow Catholic employees to dispense birth control pills as it is against their beliefs. Pharmaceutical companies should not hire Catholic workers if they make birth control medications. Medical Insurance companies should not hire Catholic medical adjusters, because they cannot approve coverage for birth control as it is against their religious beliefs.
Cardinal Donald Wuerl should be extremely pleased with my ideas until he realizes that all of these unemployed Catholic men and women will no longer be able to give to the Church. By the way Cardinal, will the Church be paying for all of the job discrimination lawsuits filed? Since the Cardinal wants only Catholic values taught, does he only want Catholic Professors, teachers, and students in their Catholic schools?