Three Jesuit universities, including Georgetown University, are under fire for hosting events promoting sexual license, cross-dressing and homosexual ideologies.Catholic News Agency reports that Georgetown University hosted "Sex Positive Week" from Feb. 23 to 28, an event sponsored by feminist and homosexual student clubs such as GU Pride, United Feminists and Georgetown Solidarity.
The Cardinal Newman Society reports that a Monday session featured a speaker from an organization that "provides a forum" for activities such as fetishism, cross-dressing, and bondage.
A talk on Ash Wednesday, "Torn about Porn?" advertised itself as including a discussion about "arguably alternative forms of pornography that are not supposed to be exploitative."
A Saturday talk from a pornographic filmmaker addressed "Relationships Beyond Monogamy."
GU Pride political chair Olivia Chitayat explained the purpose of the week, saying to the Georgetown Voice:
"The focus of this week is to introduce the idea of Sex Positive, and that's really about acceptance of a wide range of desires and sexual expressions as a way of understanding one another."
David Gregory, Editor-in-Chief of the Catholic-focused student publication The Georgetown Academy, said he was "absolutely furious" that the Student Activities Commission funded the event.
"I think about Gaston Hall and you have 'Wisdom' on one side of the ceiling and 'Virtue' on the other side," he told the Georgetown Voice, referring to a campus building.
"And a discussion like the one that took place there on Monday does not promote a healthy view toward human relationships. I'm so upset [because] there was no one to counter this anything-goes point of view."
Georgetown University political science professor Patrick Deneen commented that observers should not assume that Christian teaching about human sexuality is made known at Georgetown.
"It is not," Prof. Deneen charged. "The university feebly attempts to pretend to be concerned about matters of sexuality, but addresses them in terms of 'health.' Students who are required to take two courses in Theology are rarely, if ever, introduced to something like Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body. The only orthodoxy on campus is sexual liberation."
Noting that the university had established a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Questioning "Resource Center," he said there is no comparable center on campus dedicated to "an expressly Catholic teaching on human sexuality."
"So what is the message being sent to today's students? Sex, like everything else, is a matter of preference, choice, personal liberty and utilitarian pleasure. It is largely consequence-free recreation. We should recognize that the same moral climate that contributed to the devastation of the worldwide economy is the same moral climate that informs 'Sex Positive Week'," Prof. Deneen argued.
He accused Georgetown of wanting "desperately to be accepted on the terms set by the broader culture."
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