Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Open Letter to Notre Dame President

Strong is not a strong enough description. From Professor Charles Rice. Key excerpt:

Your decision to present an official Notre Dame presence at the March could be beneficial, but not in the context of an unrelenting criminalization by Notre Dame of sincere and peaceful friends of Notre Dame whose offense was their desire to pray, on the campus, for the University and all concerned including yourself. If you appear at the March as the continuing criminalizer of those pro-life witnesses, you predictably will earn not approbation but scorn—a scorn which will surely be directed toward Notre Dame as well. As long as you pursue the criminalization of those pro-life witnesses, your newest pro-life statements will be regarded reasonably as a cosmetic covering of the institutional anatomy in the wake of the continuing backlash arising from your conferral of Notre Dame’s highest honor on the most relentlessly pro-abortion public official in the world.

Letter in full at Free the ND 88.

Previous posts: Free the ND 88, No, Mr. President, Empty Words, The Sin of Pride, Notre Dame's Betrayal

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