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Email Exchange with Homosexual Journalist/Notre Dame Alumni
Following my open letter to Notre Dame University president, Rev. John Jenkins, regarding the administration’s decision to officially recognize an “LGBT” student organization, I received both a phone call and email from a Cambridge, Massachusetts homosexual activist and freelance journalist, who graduated from Notre Dame (but has since abandoned his Catholic faith for Reform Judaism). He was upset by my letter, which he describes as a “judgmental,” “vile,” and “hateful” letter. In a lengthy phone call, we discussed a whole host of issues related to homosexuality.
The next day he sent me an email to which I responded. That
Open Letter to Notre Dame’s President Father Jenkins
Dear Father Jenkins,
I work for the Illinois Family Institute on the board of which sits a Notre Dame alumnus. In addition, we have a number of Notre Dame alumni subscribers.
I want to thank you for your efforts to obtain an exemption from the contraception mandate of the Affordable Care Act and urge you to pursue these efforts with vigor and tenacity. If institutions like yours do not oppose every effort that chips away at the religious liberty of faith-centered organizations, what possible hope do individuals have to preserve their First Amendment religious rights—rights that are daily under assault …
