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Students and faculty are protesting that the Bush administration's Michael Mukasey should not speak at the college's commencement, using the school's Roman Catholic "religious tradition" as their reason.
The same notions were in play back in 2006 when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was invited to receive an honorary degree at BC's undergraduate commencement. Then too, dozens of faculty members seized their 15 minutes of fame with a sharply worded letter disinviting her. University theologians were brought forth to issue a fatwa declaring: "Secretary Rice's approach to international affairs is in fundamental conflict with Boston College's commitment to the values of the Catholic and Jesuit traditions and is inconsistent with the humanistic values that inspire the university's work."
The problem, of course, is the faculty's selective invocation of the school's religious roots. The honorary degree for which Secretary Rice was supposedly unfit on moral grounds was awarded without incident to other folks presumably equally, if not more, controversial to the Jesuit mission. Kate Michelman, the former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, spoke at the school without incident. Rep. Ed Markey, a Democrat with a perfect pro-choice voting record has been honored. Ditto Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, etc.
Boston College professors don't like conservatives. They're not the only academics to feel this way. But to cloak their opposition to Mr. Mukasey in the language of religious mission is the real disservice to the school and its Jesuit tradition.
No doubt schools such as Boston College have a hard enough time preserving their Catholic character when so few of their students and faculty members actually subscribe to the religious beliefs that undergird the institutions' mission. How much more difficult it must be when these people start using the beliefs they don't hold to prosecute the petty political quarrels that are, in fact, their primary passion.
From the article, "Tortured Logic" by COLLIN LEVY in the Wall Street Journal, March 21, 2008, Page W11.
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