{"id":7418,"date":"2003-11-25T13:38:28","date_gmt":"2003-11-25T18:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/11\/25\/saint-marys-updates-discrimination-policy\/"},"modified":"2003-11-25T13:38:28","modified_gmt":"2003-11-25T18:38:28","slug":"saint-marys-updates-discrimination-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/11\/saint-marys-updates-discrimination-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Mary's updates discrimination policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

SOUTH BEND — Saint Mary’s College recently added a statement to its employment policy stating the college is committed to avoiding discrimination based on sexual or political orientation.<\/p>\n

The change was approved by the college’s board of trustees during the summer.<\/p>\n

…It’s only fair to not discriminate against things you can’t change. I think it’s good they added these (items),” said freshman Lisa Teague, of New Bremen, Ohio. “It’s a good step forward.”<\/p>\n

“It’s definitely a liberal step to take. I don’t know if I’m in support of it or not,” said junior Brigid Kelly, of Cincinnati.<\/p>\n

Sister Kathleen Dolphin thinks the new policy is a good idea.<\/p>\n

“It contributes to a healthy sense of plurality at the college,” said Dolphin, a member of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Dolphin is director of the college’s Center for Spirituality and an instructor in the religious studies department.<\/p>\n

The change is based on Catholic social teaching that views each human as being a valuable individual, Dolphin said.
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Political Orientation? I suffer from Conservative Philosophy Attraction (CPA), so it is a good thing that those like me could still get employment at a Catholic College. I don’t think that Political Orientation is genetic since I once suffered from Liberal Philosophy Attraction or maybe my CPA was just in remission for a while. Or we can get the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to remove conservatism from their category of diseases. The APA could also deem that “conversion” or “reparative” therapy to convert Conservatives to a more politically correct outlook as unethical. We could then make a deal with liberals that if we stay out of their bedrooms, that they will stay out of our courtrooms.<\/p>\n

My books on Catholicism must be out of date and I must be missing a supplement from the Catechism. I can’t seem to find where plurality is a virtue. If someone is to teach religious studies who suffers from Same Sex Attraction and they are not living a chaste life then probably they will not teach Catholic truth. I doubt they would hire a holocaust-denying historian and then say under Catholic social teaching each human is viewed as being a valuable individual. Would the Harvey Milk High School in New York City hire a teacher who fervently believes that homosexual acts are disordered? This is just par for the course for in name only Catholic colleges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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