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Higher Learning
Reaches New Low
with Vulgar "V***** Monologues"
TFP Student Action Launches Protest
Scandalizing students nationwide,
518 colleges and universities intend to allow performances
of the lewd "V***** Monologues" play on their campuses,
a piece replete with sexual encounters, lust, graphic descriptions
of masturbation and lesbian behavior.
In addition to describing this play,
the Cardinal Newman Society notes the most disturbing fact
that dozens of prominent Catholic universities have permitted
this play on campus year after year during the months of February
and March, including Georgetown University, University of
Notre Dame, Saint Louis University, Saint Francis University,
Fordham University, Loyola Marymount University and others.
It is difficult to fathom how any Catholic
institution of higher learning would give open forum to this
play, which explicitly condones mortal sin, and promotes the
corrosive agenda of the sexual revolution on campus.
You Can Join the Protest
TFP Student Action has launched its
protest against the corporate sponsors of V-Day, the group
that issues licenses for the "V***** Monologues"
play. To sign and send your e-protest, just click
here.
"Our next step will be to contact
Catholic university officials where the "V***** Monologues"
is scheduled and ask them to immediately cancel the immoral
play," said TFP Student Action director John Ritchie.
" We hope to generate tens of thousands of protest messages
with this campaign."
Protests are effective. In fact, 16
Catholic colleges canceled the play earlier this year because
of protests. Hundreds of protest letters, e-mails, and phone
calls flooding into university offices can cause public relations
nightmares for college presidents. TFP applauds the university
officials that banned the play.
Concerned Catholic Parents
Catholic parents with children at these institutions
are deeply distraught. Many assume their tuition goes towards
a good "Catholic" education, that somehow guarantees
their children's formation in matters of Faith and morals.
However, by allowing events such as the lustful "V*****
Monologues" on Catholic campuses, administration officials
send mixed messages to students, and jeopardize students'
Faith.
Bishop Criticizes Production
Bishop John M. D'Arcy of the Fort Wayne-South
Bend diocese, Indiana, criticized the "V***** Monologues"
in a two-page statement published earlier this year. He said
it should have never played at the University of Notre Dame.
"The play violates the truth about women, the truth about
sexuality, the truth about male and female and the truth about
the human body."
Bishop D'Arcy continues: "Freedom
in the Catholic tradition, and even in the American political
tradition, is not the right to do anything. Freedom in the
academy is always subject to a particular discipline. It is
never an absolute… Freedom in the Catholic tradition
is not the right to do this rather than that. That would be
an entirely superficial idea of freedom… Freedom is the
capacity to choose the good."
Will Catholic colleges listen?
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You can now send your e-protest to
the corporate sponsors of V-Day by clicking
here. V-Day 2005 sponsors include BARNEYS NEW YORK, Bobbi
Brown, Dramatist Play Service, Eileen Fisher, Hearst, Lifetime
Television, Luna, Marie Claire, Tampax, Time Inc. and Vosges
Haut Chocolate.
The success of this effort depends
on how many people join this peaceful protest. To forward
this message to your friends, please
click here. Thank you for defending morality.
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