A Catholic priest holding a crucifix and a dozen laymen protested a talk by Dylan Mulvaney, one of America’s most controversial transgender celebrities, at St. Louis University, a Jesuit institution, on Monday.
The Catholic university refused to cancel the event, defying Pope Francis’s recent denunciation of gender theory and gender transitioning as “extremely dangerous since it cancels differences in its claim to make everyone equal.”
Mulvaney, a biological male who identifies as a woman, shot to fame after being featured in an advertising campaign for Bud Light, a popular beer brewed by Anheuser-Busch. The brewery lost $4 billion amid boycotts of the brand after showcasing the gay TikTok influencer.
Alexandra Leung, the president of SLU’s chapter of College Republicans, told media the university was not only contradicting Catholic teaching but had rebuffed conservative students who asked permission to host Paula Scanlan, a women’s sports activist, a day after Mulvaney’s talk.
Scanlan, a former University of Pennsylvania swimmer, began campaigning for women’s sports to be protected from infiltration by biological males identifying as women after her school allowed transgender swimmer Lia Thomas to compete on the women’s team and to change in the women’s locker room.
Despite violating Catholic teaching, SLU insists it is “guided by the Roman Catholic Church and the Society of Jesus” and “committed to Catholic education at all levels” while being the “first Jesuit institution to receive the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity award….”
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A woman shall not be clothed with man’s apparel, neither shall a man use woman’s apparel: for he that doth these things is abominable before God. Deuteronomy 22:5
The Word of the Lord.
Mulvaney was not featured in a advertising campaign for Bud Light.
Mulvaney did not shoot to fame after the Bud Light controversy.
Gender transitioning does not “cancel differences in its claim to make everyone equal.”
Pants on fire!
Post a link to the advertising campaign.
You might have only heard of Mulvaney after the Bud Light controversy, but I certainly knew of them before that and so did millions of others.
You incorrectly and improperly used the plural pronoun “them” to refer to an individual male. The correct pronoun to use was “him”. You knew of “him” before that.
You’re welcome.
They/their?them were used a singular pronouns long before personal pronouns became a gender theory thing.
Ex: Look, there is a person drowning. Let’s help them.
They were and are not used that way by educated people who have been taught correct English.
If someone uses incorrect grammar, it’s a sign that he is uneducated or low class.
See what I did there? I used the pronoun “he” in its singular, inclusive form even though the pronoun has masculine gender. That’s correct. It would be incorrect to have written, “If someone uses incorrect grammar, it’s a sign that they are uneducated or low class.”
https://www.oed.com/discover/a-brief-history-of-singular-they/?tl=true
So you accept the use of he for a female.
Now, since I know my gender, my social status and my educational level, I know whether your hypothesis is correct and you don’t.
Gender/sex transitioning is not possible. Sorry if that hurts your feelings to be told that. Actually, not sorry at all. Deal with the truth.
That is almost what I said.
Read it again.
You can not transition sex-we agree.
Gender transitioning-do I need to put it in quotes or something- Does Not “cancel differences” nor does it even claim to “make everyone equal.”
I think we agree on that too.
The main problem in the Catholic Church right now is that there is fundamental disagreement among Catholics, including among bishops and priests, about what it means to be Catholic.
If Jesuit St. Louis University and those who agree with this queer event and this deranged speaker are Catholic, then I’m not. But I know that I’m Catholic, which means that all those others aren’t.
The church is a mess.
Mulvaney came to speak at an event that is meant to provoke discussion. The Great Issues Committee: We serve as a programming body on the SLU campus with the distinct purpose to stimulate insightful, provocative debate on current issues that will inform and educate, as a service to the Saint Louis University community. All speakers are meant to engage the community, both within SLU and the greater St. Louis area, in a healthy and informative debate and discussion over numerous current issues and events garnering national attention.
Success.
I would hope you would try to deepen your understanding of the Church. Both of you are Catholic.
“Mulvaney came to speak at an event that is meant to provoke discussion.” I must ask, why did a Catholic institution feel the need to provoke discussion on this issue? To engender sympathy for the cause of transgenderism? Since when is it the Catholic mission to promote what is an abomination to God? Why would God’s apostles show contempt for the Moral/Natural Law with “informative debate?” Is it healthy to mock God? Yes, parts of the Catholic church are indeed a mess, when its supposedly deepest thinkers in academia are out of their depth in moral parking lot puddles.
I really didn’t need to see that pic. Ugh.
Bud Light sent a can to Mulvaney for an Instagram promotion in 2023, American conservatives led a boycott of the brand. This was a publicity stunt in attempt to increase sales of a product. This also known as ADVERTISING. This thoughtless marketing act brought him, Mulvaney, into a much broader public exposure.
Men can never equal women. Women can never equal men. Women and men are compliments of each other.
Bud Light sent one can of beer to Mulvaney as it does to many of its influencers. Kid Rock shot up a bunch of Bud Light (which he now publicly drinks supposedly as a show of forgiveness). My impression at the time was that Bud Light drinkers were upset and stopped drinking Bud Light. I did not know there was an organized boycott. Conservatives-traditional conservatives-really never used economic coercion. They respected American businesses. There were fringe groups that would burn records or boycott TV shows. Boycotts and economic activism were usually a tactic of the Left but even then they were mostly unsuccessful. Bud Light really lost its market share, in my opinion, because people tried a different beer and preferred it.
Men and women are equal in dignity before God. Male-female complementarity is not the issue here at all.
If they want to contradict Pope Francis, then let them be anathema. For they contradict truth.
I hope the next Pope suppresses the Jesuits.
I am glad we have someone who actually wants to obey Pope Francis.
It is possible, and as Christians, necessary, to care about and for your fellow human beings without endorsing their sins or mistakes. People are not their mistakes or their sins.
Prayer is necessary to determine whether the Lord wants you to say something TO the person. Rarely would you be asked to say something ABOUT the person.
We all find this difficult. It is easy to find fault (and sometimes faults are the first thing that you notice) but you need to slow it down, ask your guardian Angel, (or Mary, or your patron saint, or the Holy Spirit or Jesus) if you should say something.
As a California Catholic, I have no objection to Dylan going TO St. Louis. I object to his/her returning FROM St. Louis.