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The Weblog at The View from the Core - Friday, June 07, 2002
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Anti-American Student at Harvard: Marcel A. Q. LaFlamme ’04 More than 3,000 Americans were killed in a terrorist attack, September 11, 2001, sparking a war in which American soldiers have been killed a war during which we are all in jeopardy, a war that has a long way to go before it ends. Yesterday's Best of the Web posted a link to a perfectly revolting article in yesterday's Harvard Crimson. Harvard's president Lawrence H. Summers did something outrageously horrible. He actually dared can you believe this? he actually dared speak at the graduation ceremony, May 5, for Harvard students in Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC).
Why is that so horrible? Because the sexual-perversion activists at Harvard have been upset about the US military's "don't-ask-don't-tell" policy regarding homosexuals in the service. More than 3,000 Americans were killed in a terrorist attack, September 11, 2001, sparking a war in which American soldiers have been killed a war during which we are all in jeopardy, a war that has a long way to go before it ends. The Crimson article contains the following passage: “That’s shady ground to me, as far as exactly what capacity Summers would be attending that event in, and whether his presence symbolically confers a legitimacy on it that his absence would not,” says Marcel A. Q. LaFlamme ’04, political chair of BGLTSA [Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters’ Alliance]. “I’m not sure I see it as wholly appropriate.” You know what, Marcel: you need to sit down and shut up for a while. For a long while. You need to think long and hard about whether it is "wholly appropriate" for a student to be telling the president of the university that his support for a military organization might not be "wholly appropriate". During a time of war. When our homeland has been attacked. When there is no end in sight to the conflict. And when the most benefit that would be given to persons of your sexual perversion by our enemy would be a slow and merciless death: According to those stories, the Taliban's Islamic jurists knew that homosexuality was reprehensible and the sentence should be execution, but they were genuinely puzzled by conflicting Islamic opinion on exactly how the execution should be carried out. "We have a dilemma on this," one Taliban leader explained. "One group of scholars believes you should take these people to the top of the highest building in the city, and hurl them to their deaths. (The other) believes in a different approach. They recommend you dig a pit near a wall somewhere, put these people in it, then topple the wall so that they are buried alive." More than 3,000 Americans were killed in a terrorist attack, September 11, 2001, sparking a war in which American soldiers have been killed a war during which we are all in jeopardy, a war that has a long way to go before it ends. I keep repeating that because it is obvious that sexual-perversion activists at Harvard haven't gotten the message yet. Lane Core Jr. CIW P Fri. 06/07/02 09:01:13 PM |
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Novena of the Litany of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Priest and Victim In prospect of the American bishops' meeting, Dallas, May 13-15, 2002 Day Four Prayer for today, from the Sacramentary of the Roman Missal, the opening prayer of the Mass for the Local Church: God our Father, in all the churches scattered throughout the world you show forth the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. Through the gospel and the eucharist bring your people together in the Holy Spirit and guide us in your love. Make us a sign of your love for all people, and help us to show forth the living presence of Christ in the world, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. (This is also number 5 in Appendix III of current volume of the Liturgy of the Hours.) Lane Core Jr. CIW P Fri. 06/07/02 06:08:25 AM |
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