Students want Catholic chaplain canceled for opposing LGBT agenda | The College Fix
Others have weighed in through campus opinion pieces to say how they are unsafe with a Catholic priest who believes in what the Catholic Church teaches, living on campus:
One former residence life staffer asked another priest to get Parrish removed and compared the proposed removal to the same procedures used to get someone accused of sexual assault kicked out of dorms.
David Turnbloom, a theology professor at the university, compared Catholics who uphold the Church s teaching on homosexuality to the soldiers who nailed Christ to the cross. The anger of the Queer community is a grace-filled, divine instrument, he wrote. The question for Catholics is: do we have the competence to see our sin? Without this competence, any courageous acts of ministry run the risk of simply continuing the crucifixion, he said, without a hint of irony in his defense of people living obstinately in sin.
Another former residence life staffer called Parrish a danger to all LGBTQ+ students and accused him of inflicting religious trauma. She also complained about the presence of crucifixes because they represent the Catholic Church, which does not recognize same-sex unions as valid marriages. Parrish had said the crucifix represented inclusion, not the rainbow flag.
Parrish said he is still available to help students in need.
The University of Portland is a Catholic university, of course, run by the Congregation of the Holy Cross, which sounds like the same outfit that manned (or nunned, perhaps) the Catholic school I attended in Boise, Idaho. But things were different back then.