I think any parent would excuse a child for not hearing the first request, maybe the second one too. But not ever past three. At that point the line of disrespect has been egregiously crossed, and nothing short of a sincere apology (followed by appropriate punishment) will be sufficient to placate the angered parent.
So what should happen if a request has been ignored more than 11,000 times? I'd say: time to bring in some mighty big guns. I hope the Archdiocese of Detroit has 'em.
From Pewsitter.com: Jesuit University of Detroit Mercy Fails to Act on 11,000 Requests to Remove Planned Parenthood Links
April 14, 2010 - At least 11,000 students and concerned parents have petitioned the Catholic University of Detroit Mercy to remove links to abortion promoters from its web site. So far the request has not been granted. Links to Planned Parenthood and the National Organization for Women (NOW) are still listed in two places: “career & professional resources” and “external sites of interest.”
The average internet savvy webmaster could remove these pro-abortion links with ease in less than five minutes. Yet this Jesuit-Mercy university has not removed them so far, thus giving scandal to students who are faithful to Catholic teaching on abortion. The university’s seeming unwillingness to remove these links might be related to another troubling discovery.
Wolf in Nun's Habit?
Sister Margaret A. Farley, RSM is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Detroit Mercy. Over the years, she has taken positions favorable to abortion, same-sex “marriage,” sterilization of women, divorce and the ordination of women to the priesthood. Sister Farley, who taught Christian ethics at Yale Divinity School, is well known for her radical feminist ideas and open dissent from Church teaching.
In 1984 she co-signed an ad in The New York Times by Catholics for Free Choice challenging Catholic teaching on procured abortion. “Statements of recent Popes and of the Catholic hierarchy have condemned the direct termination of pre-natal life as morally wrong in all instances. There is a mistaken belief in American society that this is the only legitimate Catholic position,” reads part of the statement. Another co-signer of the ad is long-time Detroit Mercy faculty member Prof. Jane Schaberg, author of the blasphemous book, The Illegitimacy of Jesus.
Although the Vatican and the American Catholic Bishops called the signers of the ad on the carpet urging them to recant, the warning seems to have made no lasting impression on Sister Farley or Prof. Schaberg who continue to promote abortion and unorthodox ideas.Remove Dissident Nun
TFP Student Action invites its members – students and parents – to respectfully speak out against this scandal, to be the voice of the unborn that clamor for justice, and oppose the sin of abortion. Let us continue politely urging the University of Detroit Mercy to remove its web site links to abortion promoters.
And as we renew and intensify this peaceful protest, let us also ask for the removal of pro-abortion Sister Margaret A. Farley from the university's Board of Trustees.
Please note: Always be respectful and polite when contacting members of the hierarchy.
Well, can't say I'm surprised. Yet another CINO center of higher learning infiltrated by fake Catholycs who are more interested in corrupting the minds and souls of their tuition-paying students than show at least some faint modicum of faithfulness to Church teaching.
I'm impressed with the persistence of TFP Student Action. The gospels recount a parable of Christ's, the one concerning the widow who constantly pestered the unjust judge, until he finally relented, granting the widow her deserved justice. Christ didn't mention how many times she confronted the judge - but one would think that after 11,000 requests, the university would finally submit to get the students and parents off their back.
Nope. This is about abortion rights and feminism. In Farley's mind, justice has already been served.
