Kathleen
Sebelius to Speak at Georgetown Commencement Ceremony
In what can only be
interpreted as a direct challenge to America's Catholic bishops, Georgetown
University has announced that "pro-choice" Catholic Kathleen
Sebelius, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and
lead architect of the Obama administration's assault on religious freedom
through the HHS contraception mandate, has been invited to speak at one of
Georgetown's several commencement ceremonies.
The Cardinal Newman
Society has posted a petition to protest this outrage here: GeorgetownScandal.com. It has also
alerted Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl and sent a letter to Georgetown
President John De Gioia urging him to immediately withdraw the invitation.
Last week The
Cardinal Newman Society released a list of 11 scandalous commencement
speakers at Catholic colleges and universities, as well as a report on
homosexual "lavender graduations" including one at Georgetown.
The nation's oldest
Catholic and Jesuit University has chosen to honor Sebelius by granting her a
prestigious platform at its Public Policy Institute commencement ceremony,
despite her role as the lead architect of a healthcare mandate that will force
Catholic institutions to pay for contraception, abortifacients and
sterilization against their religious beliefs. The United States Conference of
Catholic Bishops has termed the mandate "an unwarranted government
definition of religion" that is "alien both to our Catholic tradition
and to federal law," "a violation of personal civil rights" and
"a mandate to act against our teachings."
But Secretary
Sebelius' record on abortion is at least as troubling as the mandate. When
Governor of Kansas, Sebelius supported abortion rights and vetoed pro-life
legislation. In 2008, Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City reportedly told
Sebelius, a Roman Catholic, to stop receiving the Eucharist until she publicly
recants her position on abortion and makes a "worthy sacramental
confession."
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