Students at 30 Catholic colleges concerned with decline of moral values

Hanover, Penn., Moral values are being undermined at 30 Catholic colleges during the weeks surrounding St. Valentine’s day. In fact, many students are afflicted by a play called “The V***** Monologues,” which is scheduled to be held on Catholic campuses throughout the country. (Asterisks added for the sake of modesty).

TFP Student Action – a conservative organization of Catholic inspiration – is opposing the play, urging its members on 375 campuses to protest. According to the group’s web site: “In one scene, a woman describes her seduction by a lesbian woman when she was 16 years old, declaring it her ‘salvation’ and an important coming-of-age experience. The older woman leads the girl into sex by serving her alcohol and abusing her authority as an elder.”

“This play tramples the 6th Commandment. It degrades women. It contains lesbian behavior and shouldn’t be allowed at any Catholic university,” said TFP Student Action director John Ritchie.

Last year, 16 Catholic colleges apparently canceled the play due to the protest. This year, TFP Student Action’s e-mail protest urges college presidents in question to take action, saying: “Freedom of speech has limits. Please do everything in your power as president of a Catholic institution of higher learning to cancel this immoral play, even if it is not formally approved or funded by your administration.” For more details, please visit www.tfpstudentaction.org

Bishop John M. D'Arcy also issued a public statement after the play performed at the University of Notre Dame in 2004: "Freedom in the academy is always subject to a particular discipline. It is never an absolute… Freedom in the Catholic tradition is not the right to do this rather than that. That would be an entirely superficial idea of freedom… Freedom is the capacity to choose the good."


For information: www.TFPStudentAction.org or
Contact: jritchie@tfp.org
Phone: 717-225-7147 ext. 229