The University of Portland, a Catholic institution, has hired a lesbian pastor named Brandy Daniels to teach a course on “Queer Theologies” to its students.
It is shameful and unacceptable for a self-proclaimed Catholic university to allow such a class.
The TFP has just launched a petition drive, urging the university’s president to end this scandal.
In Brandy Daniels’ course, she references infamous homosexual theorists like Michel Foucault, Judith Butler and Gayle Rubin “to explore what queer theory offers to theology.”
According to the University’s student-run publication, “Daniels challenges students to ask what possibilities theology has for thinking beyond traditional understandings of sexuality.”
Earlier in her career, she was part of an organization called Soulforce, which worked to “change the ‘hearts and minds’ of anti-LGBTQ+ institutions by engaging with students at conservative Christian universities.”
Ironically, the University of Portland’s motto is Veritas vos Liberabit, “The truth will set you free.”
However, perhaps the University would benefit from another Catholic resource. The Catechism of the Catholic Church is extremely clear: “Homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.”
Allowing Brandy Daniels to teach at this Catholic university is a scandal and must be opposed.
Please remember: we must never stop fighting against Satan and his evil ploys to drag God’s children away from Him.
Taking a Principled not a Personal Stand on Homosexuality, Homosexual “Marriage” and Transgenderism
As practicing Catholics, we are filled with compassion and pray for those who struggle against violent temptation to sin, be it toward homosexual sin, gender dysphoria or otherwise.
We are conscious of the enormous difference between these individuals who struggle with their weaknesses and strive to overcome them and others who transform their sin into a reason for pride, and try to impose their lifestyle on society as a whole, in flagrant opposition to traditional Christian morality and natural law. However, we pray for them too.
According to the expression attributed to Saint Augustine, we “hate the sin but love the sinner.” And to love the sinner, as the same Doctor of the Church explains, is to wish for him the best we can possibly desire for ourselves, namely, “that he may love God with a perfect affection.” (St. Augustine, Of the Morals of the Catholic Church, No. 49, www.newadvent.org/fathers/1401.htm)
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