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The most recent edition of Georgetown Magazine, Georgetown University’s alumni magazine, reports that former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue and his wife, Chandler, have made a $5 million donation to the $1.5 billion For Generations to Come campaign.
One million dollars will be devoted to establishing the Tagliabue Initiative for LGBTQ Life: Fostering Formation and Transformation, which will be overseen by Georgetown’s LGBTQ Resource Center.
Tagliabue is a Georgetown grad and chairman of GU’s board of directors. The couple has a son, Drew, who is openly gay.
“The Center is inspired by Catholic and Jesuit principles of respect for the dignity of all and education of the whole person, and we are very pleased to support its services that provide a safe, inclusive and respectful environment for LGBTQ students and promote their acceptance in the entire campus community,” the Tagliabues said in a statement.
Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia, said that the Tagliabues’ donation is “further evidence of their belief in and support for what Georgetown is and aspires to become.”
It’s also further evidence that GU is leading the way in the continuing surrender of Catholic higher education to the secular culture.
Georgetown University was in the news recently when GU Law School student Sandra Fluke complained before a fake congressional hearing that her friends couldn’t get free contraceptives because the Jesuit Catholic university wouldn’t cover the allegedly onerous costs of birth control (which turned out to be about $9 a month, hardly burdensome for students who can expect to make six figures upon graduation).
GU hasn’t yet changed its policy against paying for its students’ birth control. But it’s done more to advance the homosexual rights agenda than any other Catholic university. GU’s LBGTQ Center, Georgetown Magazine proudly notes, is “the first such center at a Catholic university.”
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Albert Constantine Jr.| 7.3.12 @ 12:23PM
Perhaps alumnus William Jefferson Clinton could make an endowment to promote lust and adultery.
Vance P. Frickey| 7.4.12 @ 10:42AM
When I see an article like this, I have to wonder whether the writer inhabits the same universe as the rest of us. The proper attitude of conservatives toward a family's choice to donate a lot of money toward a charity centered on getting public acceptance of something that happens largely behind closed doors should be a yawn.
What really matters to us? Will the nation rise or fall based on whether or not marriage is "protected" from gays being able to take part in it? Or is it more likely that when Barack Obama decides for the rest of us what our laws will be with the stroke of a pen, decisions like that by future presidents might concern our rights to live in freedom ourselves?
Barack Obama, while in the United States Senate, told an interviewer with New England Public Radio "the Constitution is holding us back," but no one in the press rose to the bait. Should we be surprised, then, that as President Obama is acting on that sentiment and behaving as though the Constitution doesn't matter?
And isn't that more important than the national attitudes about what some of us do in bed, or how the laws reflect those attitudes? When the house is on fire, you put out the fire. You don't worry about the paint on the mailbox.
Cromulent| 7.5.12 @ 9:39AM
"Will the nation rise or fall based on whether or not marriage is "protected" from gays being able to take part in it?"
A proper conservative attitude is to view with great skepticism the fundamental rearrangement of an institution whose origins predate written history.
Besides, gays have always been able to marry. If a gay man finds a woman agreeable to his proposition there is no law in the land that can stop them.
Alan Trevithick | 7.7.12 @ 10:43PM
There are all sorts of institutions whose origins predate written history, but you'd have to look around pretty hard for an anthropologist who would so confidently claim that heterosexual monogamy-I suppose that's the model you're writing about-was the sole, or solely authorized arrangement. Really, the proper scientific attitude is to view with great skepticism such unanchored generalizations.
RCV| 7.4.12 @ 12:42PM
There's just something about gays that makes people like this blogger very, very uncomfortable? Wonder what it could be?
Butch| 7.4.12 @ 3:03PM
Ask Jerry Sandusky.
soxandthecity| 7.5.12 @ 2:12AM
Your reply is nonsense, and yet somehow it still managed to be offensive. Great job.
Cromulent| 7.5.12 @ 10:03AM
Sox you are right. The reply is nonsense. Asking Victim 4 might be more helpful.