You think you have a choice

Right now Notre Dame is choosing to invite our President Barack Obama to speak, to essentially repudiate their Catholicism when they wish--eventually they may not have a choice:

When the Soviets took over the schools, they said it was to increase literacy (a truly laudable goal). In fact, the objective was to eliminate religious education for any child in the Soviet Union. It’s the same idea here: the government promotes a Serve America Act, which seems like such an innocent concept – encouraging more Americans to volunteer. Americans, as Tocqueville observed, are very generous with their time and money.

So what is the problem with having government encourage more of this activity? The problem, of course, arises when government red tape limits churches’ ability to recruit volunteers for its activities, or when the government compels high school students to volunteer only for “approved” organizations; the government is thus able to significantly increase its influence over America’s youth and to dictate which organizations are worthy of community service.

A Russian writes to RedState. When I was there in the 70's they had turned their churches into warehouses and anti-religious museums.

Notre Dame means Our Lady. Perhaps they will need to find a new name--it might smack of too much devotion to the mother of Christ.