Notre Dame Requires Gender Ideology Training Session – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

For years, the administration has handed out numerous LGBTQ ally pins and denoted resident assistants dorms as LGBTQ safe spaces, but it has done so under the guise that such actions represent advocacy against discrimination on the basis of a gay or transgender identity, not as acceptance of homosexual behavior or transgender identities. Now, Notre Dame s Catholic student newspaper, the Irish Rover, alleges that, in the training video, students are told they must move from kindness to allyship, an idea the university expresses in its promotion of events such as LGBTQ Ally Week. While LBGTQ activists in the United States understand allyship as advocating for the full legal and societal acceptance of homosexual relationships and transgender identities, it is unclear what Notre Dame means by the term.

Last year, Notre Dame officially recognized an LGBTQ alumni group and celebrated Pride Month on the university s website. Pride is a time to recall the trials the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) community has endured and to rejoice in the triumphs of trailblazing individuals who have bravely fought and continue to fight for full equality, it said. This summer, the university sent all Notre Dame affiliated alumni groups a Tool Kit to help them celebrate Pride month. (READ MORE: Notre Dame President Disputes Claim He Congratulated Obergefell Plaintiff on Court Win)

The Irish Rover reported that matriculating students were given a health form last month with the questions: What sex were you assigned at birth on your birth certificate? and What is your current gender identity? Compliance was voluntary.

Students were presented with seven gender identity options. They could identify themselves as male, female, transgender male, transgender female, genderqueer, other, or choose not to disclose.

In addition, students were asked to supply their preferred pronouns.

Despite these indications to the contrary, Notre Dame officially claims to accept the Catholic Church s teaching on gender and sexuality. Its policy states that students who experience same-sex attraction are called to chastity and that chastity is God s invitation for all to be in loving relationship with others according to the demands of the moral virtues.

The practical experience of students at the university shows, however, that students who promote the Church s teachings on sexuality are castigated. Last year, a student who called on the university to offer greater clarity on the Church s teaching on sexuality was accused of hate speech in the official student newspaper.

via spectator.org

It’s mad, I tell you, mad!

I guess now we know how the Romans must have felt when they looked up to discover all their slaves and wives had suddenly become Christian. Only with us, it’s our children, and they’ve evidently accepted a, let’s call it unlikely, ideology. And no, I’m not advocating the dissidents be dipped in pitch and burned like torches. That would be unchristian, not to mention illegal.