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It is a nice
question whether Orwell's 1984 or Huxley's Brave
New World was the most prescient depiction of what modern
society has become. Better living through chemistry or Big
Brother is watching you? The current invocation of "academic
freedom" to plead for the staging of homosexual propaganda
on Catholic campuses suggests that Orwell was nearer to the
truth, particularly on the twisting of language. Politically
incorrect speakers are regularly howled down on the nation's
campuses yet "academic freedom" is piously invoked to corrupt
the young.
Some years ago,
my university summoned the courage to deny homosexuals the
right to form a student club. Immediately thereafter a university
committee was formed to study the matter. The result, a year
or so later, was a document on homophobia. Sexual perversity
now became the problem of calling it by its proper name. Or
of disapproving of it in any way whatsoever. It had become
a Christian obligation to accept and celebrate sodomy.
The Maritain
Center put on a series of lectures by psychiatrists, theologians,
recovered homosexuals, et al., in an effort to contribute
to the discussion that was thought to be so urgently needed.
Campus Ministry took out a full page ad in the student paper
telling students to boycott the lectures. The greatest offense
seemed to be regarding sodomy as a sin of which one might
repent rather than some genetic given beyond one's choice
or control. Ah well, reason has always been in short supply
in what is laughingly called higher education. Man was born
sinful and only truth can set him free.
Ralph
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