I was both surprised and disappointed to read this. Some years ago, I worked on a budget project at SHU. I had the opportunity to attend Mass in their chapel. The campus had a distinctly Catholic atmosphere. They are clearly not living their Catholic identity.
Seton Hall University, an institution of the Archdiocese of Newark, has announced a course on same-sex “marriage” that will be taught by a professor with connections to homosexual advocacy groups.
Offered by the Department of Women and Gender Studies, the course will analyze the contemporary political situation regarding same-sex “marriage, such as Proposition 8 in California. It will also teach various cultural perspective of marriage.
Prof. W. King Mott, instructor of the course, told the Setonian it is not an advocacy course but that he will teach it from an academic perspective.
“It is one thing to say ‘I am for or against gay marriage,’” Mott said. “It’s another to actually understand the issue.”
“I hope my students gain an appreciation and respect for disinterested analysis that can be used to formulate an informed opinion,” he added.
Students taking the course will analyze same-sex “marriage” from a perspective they choose “after they have been educated on the issue,” the Setonian writes.
from the catechism:
1660 The marriage covenant, by which a man and a woman form with each other an intimate communion of life and love, has been founded and endowed with its own special laws by the Creator. By its very nature it is ordered to the good of the couple, as well as to the generation and education of children. Christ the Lord raised marriage between the baptized to the dignity of a sacrament (cf. CIC, can. 1055 § 1; cf. GS 48 § 1).
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