The American Spectator

/p> p> I find it interesting how many people, mostly liberal (Coach Majerus in particular) feel that the Catholic Church must accommodate them, even if their beliefs are contrary to church doctrine. It is not the job of any church to change its positions for you. Rick Majerus has the right to say whatever he feels without government restriction. But if the university or the church decide to deem his belief as objectionable and he is reprimanded by the university, they most certainly have justification. It is not a matter of whether one agrees or disagrees with Catholic Church Doctrine. It is doctrine, and one can simply choose not to belong to the church if he or she disagrees. But don’t ask thousands of years of religious principle to be altered for one’s own secular views. br> — Scott Cason /p>

For those of us who have grown up and old in the Roman Catholic Faith it comes as no surprise that St. Louis University cares not a whit about the pro abortion comments of its basketball coach. I, like many others who have watched the American wing of the Church stumble leftward these many years since the promulgation of Vatican II, have pretty much given up the idea that what is wrong for me is wrong for the high profile Catholics such as Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, just to name two. I suppose I better add Mr. Majerus’s name to the list now that he has been given the imprimatur to speak for the Jesuits.

I was especially enamored of the Jesuitical defense of Mr. Majerus by the powers that be at the university. To say that asking him to keep his views about abortion to himself would be a violation of his constitutional right to free speech is as great a cop out as I have ever heard. I wonder what stance these “men of God” would take were he to wax eloquent about abortions for Blacks, or forced sterilization for Catholic priests, or barring Muslims from entry to the University.

p>Perhaps the Jesuits should go back to attempting to determine how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Now that would be interesting. br> — Joseph Baum br> Garrettsville, Ohio /p>

Thank you, theologian Majerus, for your stunningly brilliant treatise on the exercise of personal conscience in the Catholic tradition. Maybe the real source of your elderly Mom’s consternation is that she raised such a blithering jackass!

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