Milwaukee MagazineMarquette University faculty is demanding to know why their president, Father Robert Wild, withdrew a major job offer to an openly gay professor from Seattle[Obviously openly gay was NOT the problem, the problem was with what she would be teaching, not how she was living]. A faculty member who attended the meeting told NewsBuzz that Wild informed a roomful of senior faculty members that Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki influenced his decision to withdraw it. Listecki has a reputation as a bishop who aggressively enforces[hmmm....] traditional Catholic doctrine[Marriage and sexuality are more a natural law teaching but okay... ].
She[Marquette spokesman] later told the Journal Sentinel in an e-mail that Listecki had expressed concerns to Wild about a hiring O’Brien. “He felt bound to convey these concerns, just as he would feel bound to do with any Catholic institution in the archdiocese,” she said.[They still consider themselves a Catholic institution. That is a good sign]
O’Brien is a professor of sociology who has written recent articles on same-sex marriage, homophobia, homosexual Christian movements, homosexual Christian identity and also pieces on sociological theory and the relationship between university teaching and research. One work contains a description of lesbian sex involving a sex toy.[Didn't we used to call books like that by a different name?] Traditional Catholic doctrine considers such homosexual acts to be sinful.[Apparently Mil Mag is hoping to distinguish between Traditional and Liberal Catholic Doctrine. Maybe they will get a hold of Weakland to see what he would have done. Well if they mean Traditional as in what the Church has taught consistently for 2000 years, they would be correct.]
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Badger Claw High Five to Arch Listecki!
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