Catholic St. Norbert College to invite pro-abort Gloria Steinem on campus
by Carder
It’s so wrong and scandalous. Especially at a Catholic campus…
Because Gloria Steinem is like Margaret Sanger. Or even worse.
She boasted about her own abortion, saying: “it felt positive.”
On another occasion, she said: “There is no organization in this country or the world that is more important than Planned Parenthood.” (NJ.com, Sept. 17, 2011)
And she also said this:
“Approximately one in three women in this country needs an abortion at some time in her life. It should be a part of reproductive rights.” (The Washington Post – Nov. 19, 2013)
So, I’d like to ask you:
How on earth can a woman like Gloria Steinem with such a public pro-abortion record be invited to give a lecture at a Catholic institute, which ought to be a cornerstone in the defense of innocent life?
~ Pro-life activist John Ritchie of TFP Student Action, sounding the alarm that St. Norbert College plans to host radical pro-abortion activist Gloria Steinem, October 19
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Is there no benefit existing outside an echo-chamber?
Very sad. I have a couple of young friends who lost their faith while attending at St. Norbert. Which makes sense, if the college is determined to teach against it. Steinem’s outspoken disdain for Catholicism should be sufficient reason for not inviting her to a Catholic college.
The point of Catholic education is to learn the truth about reality, so that one can make sense of the insanity that rules the secular world. We want to know good from bad, so we can choose the good and be happy.
But Steinem is part of the insanity that says, “Any choice is as good and any other choice. There are no bad choices. As long as you are free to make your own choices, that is best.”
In her milieu, the child does not matter. Dead or alive, all the same.
Even more insane — the consequences of the choice must not be considered. Whether the results will good or bad — not important. The only important thing is the “choice.”
Bring some survivors of abortion to campus to speak before and after her.
Gloria can wear her “I had an Abortion Tshirt” and the abortion survivors can wear an “I am a Failed Abortion” Tshirt.
http://keywiki.org/index.php/Gloria_Steinem
Steinem is yet another progressive who is a self-admitted socialist and Marxist.
Yet on our liberal side of politics, there is a taboo against identifying communists, Marxists, and socialists by their accurate, self-professed political affiliations.
This part of the liberal cult thinking is what helps liberals/democrats use the “McCarthyism” change-the-topic strategy whenever anyone points this out.
Hence, many democrats truly will say there is no active socialist/Marxist influences in the democratic party, or generally in the United States.
And so this speaker will be introduced at this speaking engagement and promoting a Marxist view – which is anti-family and is pro-abortion – and no one will be the wiser.
“Approximately one in three women in this country needs an abortion at some time in her life”
I’m pretty sure she meant to say wants, not needs. Very few abortions are needed in any meaningful sense of the word.
So many edifying witnesses for the value of life go unnoticed and unsung. Perhaps the folks at St. Norbert could go looking for some of them the next time they want to host a speaker.
I find it interesting that nowhere in this article does it say what she is speaking about. Is she speaking about abortion? Is the speech about something else? Are we saying that as Catholics we can’t hear what someone has to say if they don’t agree with us on every issue? If you want to be heard & have a chance to change someone’s mind, you need to be willing to listen.
I personally think 40 plus years is long enough to listen….
Kmm – As Marshall McLuhan noted, “the medium is the message.” Gloria Steinem could visit to talk about organic fibers and macramé projects, and the message would still be “Catholic College Welcomes Gloria Steinem.”
Notre Dame’s leadership gave Barak Obama an honorary doctorate. That insult still stings faithful Catholics and Notre Dame alumni. Does anybody know or care what the honorary degree was about? — It does not matter. They honored a pro-abortion leader who went on to persecute the conscience rights of Catholic charity organizations. That is the message.
You are saying all of this, but in United States Catholics use birth control, almost all of them, and many have abortions. Real world, not imaginary world.
Catholics over-represent the pro-life movement, and hundreds of thousands of us travel to the March For Life each year.
Real World, not imaginary world. We will convert our own wayward members and the rest of the world as well.
Another Church sellout.
I am not willing to listen to her. She has made her story plain.
Very sad.
Has the college given a reason for hosting her? What is the context?
Marek, I’m not Catholic, but it’s my understanding that the disagreements of laity have no bearing whatsoever on what the Church considers objectively true or moral. I mean, like, being agnostic I don’t really have any gripe with contraception, but I think that the Catholic Church is welcome to oppose it and anyone who thinks the church is wrong is…welcome to not be part of it? I will never understand why people who disagree with the church’s stance on birth control, abortion, homosexuality, or women as priests or whatever, stick around. There are plenty of Protestant denominations that have no problem with those things. It is just bizarre to me. Someone once told me that you don’t merely “shop around” for the religion that “fits you,” you belong to the one you believe is the truth. Well…yeah. So if you didn’t think it was true, if you thought it was wrong on issues like birth control and abortion and homosexuality etc, and right on the things it has in common with other denominations, why would you belong to it?
“The point of Catholic education is to learn the truth about reality” – well no, it’s to learn about catholic doctrine and belief. A manmade construct. Other faiths have their own versions of the same thing while those without faith obviously function within *the* reality.
“so that one can make sense of the insanity that rules the secular world” – living according to facts, science and reason isn’t the insanity.
“We want to know good from bad, so we can choose the good and be happy” – your version of good and bad anyway, the one you’d like to impose on the rest of us.