Oh my goodness, we're to the level of wokeness where a CATHOLIC school will prevent a conservative group from existing on campus because they hold to an opinion identical to that of the Catholic Church.
St. Mary's in Indiana just denied an application for Turning Point USA to form a chapter at the school because the organization insists that there are just two sexes, you know, like everyone throughout human history has always known.
From The College Fix:
A Catholic university recently denied the formation of a conservative group's chapter on campus due to statements from its national organization that there are only two sexes, male and female.
Saint Mary's University located in Notre Dame, Indiana denied an application to formally recognize a Turning Point USA chapter.
Two administrators told student Claire Bettag that the "style and content of Turning Point USA's messaging around LGBTQ+ issues do not align with the mission and values of Saint Mary's" in an email reviewed by The College Fix.
What about the completely accurate and non-controversial statement about the fact that there are only two genders goes against the missions and values of St. Mary's University?
Shouldn't a Christian and Catholic school be in favor of promoting truth?
Dean of Students Gloria Jenkins and Vice President of Enrollment Lori Johnson referenced an archive of stories where TPUSA reported on LGBT issues, such as men competing in women's sports. Jenkins and Johnson also pointed to shirts sold by the national conservative group that it considered "anti-trans" because it states that "Real Men Aren't Women."
Other examples included comments made by CEO Charlie Kirk about men competing in women's sports and criticizing transgenderism. Jenkins and Johnson also made mention of "other articles focusing on race and partisan politics that also point to the inconsistencies between stated claims and values of the organization and its founder and how they actually present themselves in reality."
Allowing an organization to exist on campus to represent conservatives isn't even an endorsement of conservative ideas. It's not like this is a Hitler Youth chapter or a new branch of the KKK.
It's a conservative group that has a presence on college campuses across the USA that promotes guest speakers on campus and gives conservatives something to be a part of.
But, to be clear, this Catholic school is preventing a student organization from forming explicitly because of opinions that agree with the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church teaches that there are two sexes, male and female. It also explicitly forbids as sinful common procedures undertaken by gender dysphoric individuals such as sterilization. "Except when performed for strictly therapeutic medical reasons, directly intended amputations, mutilations, and sterilizations performed on innocent persons are against the moral law," the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which lists dogmas and doctrines of the faith, states.
"It completely astounds me to see that a ‘Catholic' institution like Saint Mary's College has rejected my request to start a conservative chapter on campus due to ‘biological differences' regarding transgenderism," Bettag told The Fix via email.
"Why should I have to fight to allow Catholicism to be taught at a Catholic university? If I wanted to attend a liberal school I would have considered an Ivy League university," the conservative student told The Fix...
"The Bible is clear, God made them male and female and you'd think a Catholic institution would support those values," national TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet told The Fix. He called the rejection of the group "startling."
"This university is rejecting clubs that want to carry the tenets of the Catholic faith on which the college was initially founded," Bettag stated in her comments to The Fix. "This just shows that the administration openly opposes Christ and His Church along with His teachings."
I couldn't have said it better myself.
Catholic schools that prefer today's modern religion of secularism over the truth delivered to the saints and found throughout scripture are not Catholic at all.
The Catholic university has also rejected a pro-abortion club, but does allow a pro-LGBT group and even has a center on campus that promotes homosexual and transgender activity. The Catholic Church also forbids as sinful homosexual sexual activity, and teaches that individuals with LGBT inclinations should live a life of chastity and abstinence.
St. Mary's is no longer a school that claims Catholicism or Christianity.
