Georgetown Comes To Its Gay Senses
After weeks of bad press and even worse politics, Georgetown president John DeGioia announced the DC-based school will open a gay community center.
Georgetown Voice reports:
It took two hate crimes in as many months to make it happen, but Georgetown’s administrators have finally made a commitment to support the University’s LGBTQ community. At an open forum last night, President John DeGioia commendably announced that Georgetown will have a fully-staffed, fully-funded LGBTQ resource center by next fall. Three working groups will be created to address the creation of the resource center, the development of a better bias-reporting system and plans for LGBTQ diversity training during New Student Orientation.
In addition to the center, GU Pride will coordinate diversity training for freshman: session GU Pride president Scott Chessare calls “LGBTQ 101″.
We prefer to call it progress. It would have been more progressive, of course, had DeGioia made the announcement two weeks ago, when gay activists picketed his office.
“…gay activists picketed his office”. See, they became “unmanageable” and got what was right. Squeaky wheel gets the oil. Time to start picketing statehouses for our marriage rights.
I have always had admiration for the Marine Corps of the Roman Church…..the Jesuits. Once disbanded by the Pope, current pontiffs have always used these men – almost without exception trained to doctoral disciplinary levels and with a seminary formation longer than others.
There have been gay proponents: John McNeill and Charles Curran come to mind, as was Hans Kung and Martin Borman, son of the Nazi leader. All these men were silenced by John Paul II for their advocacy of a contextual view on gay and lesbian theology.
However, since 1978, the Jesuits have been led by men from the uberconservative side.
Rt. Rev. – you remind me of reading Robertson Davies.
WWH – I am honoured and humbled to be spoken of in the same breath as that giant Canadian who earned the Order of Canada.
Our nation is poorer by his death, but his legacy leaves us the richer for his body of work.
Rt. Rev, right on: He’s one of my faves and Canadians are always amazed an American has read him.
I am not surprised at your literacy WWH, but I am nevertheless impressed with you and your choices. smiling grin.