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OPINION
Catholic students who want to learn more about protecting society from illegal immigrant murderers and rapists are out of luck if they attend St. John’s University or Saint Louis University.
But if they want to celebrate homosexuality, transgenderism, and cross-dressing, both nominally Catholic universities will welcome them with open arms.
Saint Louis University, a Jesuit Catholic school, recently banned “U.S. Customs and Border Protection recruiters” from an upcoming job fair, after student pressure, NBC 5 reported.
“Saint Louis University on Wednesday confirmed that the agency won’t be recruiting at the job fair on March 4,” KSDK reported.
“In their petition, students said it might be a bad look for a Jesuit school to help round up recruits for the people rounding up immigrants,” reporter Mark Maxwell wrote, editorializing in his “news” article by using the pejorative “round up.”
Of course it might also “be a bad look” for SLU to host an annual drag show, pay for transgender drugs and surgeries, and have pro-LGBT clubs. But the school has never backtracked on those offerings for students. In fact the university hosts a “transgender health collaborative.”
The Jesuit school is not alone in promoting activities at odds with Catholic teaching while claiming to uphold the faith elsewhere.
St. John’s University also decided to end a partnership with U.S. Customs and Border Protection following outrage.
“I write to share that the University has suspended its partnership with U.S. Customs and Border Protection,” law school dean Jefferson Exum wrote an email, as reported by Gothamist. “The University reached this decision in recent weeks after concluding that the partnership is currently incompatible with the mission of St. John’s.”
Out of curiosity, what is the “mission of St. John’s”?
The school is refusing to approve a Turning Point USA chapter, but gladly hosts pro-LGBT programming, as The College Fix recently reported. The law school openly boasts of supporting the transgender and homosexual agenda. It also promotes an annual “drag show brunch.”
Dean Exum, the one who didn’t believe protecting the country from illegal immigrants breaking our laws fit with the “mission” of the school, is proudly pro-LGBT.
“Along with Dean Jelani Jefferson Exum and others on the Law School’s leadership team, Dean [Vernadette] Horne hosts a welcome/welcome back brunch for LGBTQ+ students and allies in the fall,” the school boasts.
But if these schools’ understanding of morality is flawed, their logic concerning where their alumni work may be even worse.
The schools appear to be saying that they do not want to help federal law enforcement, particularly those who deport illegal immigrants, recruit from among their students. But why?
Insofar as the universities must recognize that there are at least some people who deserve to be deported, it would seem to make more sense to push for their own alumni to get into leadership roles. If the universities truly believe they are raising up the next generation of morally grounded people they should want them running the institutions they are currently skeptical of.
This situation reminds me of what a former professor of mine at Loyola said when explaining why he disagreed with students who wanted ROTC off campus. The professor, a military veteran, argued that it was better to have the values of Loyola (I’m using that term loosely and granting him a lot of leeway) brought into the military.
In other words, if students believed Loyola prepared students to be ethically leaders, and they felt the U.S. military currently lacked such personnel, then they should want the school’s alumni to join.
Alas, the universities have proven that while they have scruples about supporting an agency that is duly tasked with enforcing our immigration system, they share no qualms about promoting lifestyles and actions at odds with the Catholic Church.
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