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Remembering always that the Traditional Latin Mass needs to be snuffed at Catholic schools like Steubenville, here’s what’s going on at Notre Shame.

From Breitbart:

The University of Notre Dame’s gender studies program is hosting a talk with the author of a book titled “Queer Holiness.” [And I suppose there are a lot of those who are High Atop The Thing were wondering, “Is there any other kind?”]

Set to take place on March 23rd, the event titled “Queer Holiness” will focus on “the gift of LGBTQI people to the church” and will feature Charles Bell, the author of a book by the same name.

“For millennia, institutional churches have told LGBTQI people what God expects them to be and how to act,” [The NERVE of that “institutional” Church!] the description reads before going on to say “in parts of the church, LGBTQI people remain the subject of hostile questions.” [Ooops!  Wrong acronym.  Shouldn’t that be “TLM”?]

A description of the book says, “From prohibitions on who they might love or marry, to erasure and denial, the theological record is one in which LGBTQI people are far too often objectified and their lives seen as the property of others.” [Do I sense a whiff of Marxism?]

“In no other significant religious question are ‘theological’ arguments made that so clearly reject overwhelming scientific and experiential knowledge about the human person,” the description also reads. [B as in B.  S as in S.]

It goes on to explain, “This book seeks to find a better way to do theology…[ without annoying references to God …]  taking insights from the sciences and personal narratives as it seeks to answer the question: ‘What does human flourishing look like?’” [again, without all that God-stuff.]

Additionally, the event description also states that Dr. Charles Bell is “grounded in his work as both an Anglican priest and a practicing psychiatrist.” [Yeahhh… what could go wrong with that combination.]

Meanwhile, the University of Notre Dame Law School hosted an event last semester called “Transgender Public Interest Litigation,” which was hosted in conjunction with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).  [Probably a “How To” workshop.]