Gonzaga University is currently advertising on their website for a new LBGT Coordinator.The listed “Job Purpose,” on Gonzaga’s website details:
This position will coordinate programs and provide resources and support for diverse special populations of students, primarily those in the LGBT student community. The coordinator will oversee the LGBT Resource Center, develop and manage educational programming and outreach. This position reports to the Assistant Dean of Students, Student Life. The office is situated within the Unity Multicultural Education Center (UMEC).
The ad does not include expertise in Church teaching on sexuality as a qualification but does include previous work with “LGBT community and/or traditionally marginalized groups.” The list of qualifications does end with a “Commitment to the Gonzaga University Mission.”
The site says the position pays over $15,000 per year and lists the position’s “essential functions” such as, “Work closely with clubs and organizations such as HERO and others to provide support…Develop and sustain programming and events that serve the LGBT community and larger campus constituency…Provide leadership to the LGBT community by generating innovative ways to provide service.”The position will be overseen by the Unity Multicultural Education Center (UMEC), which lists its purpose as supporting the academic and co-curricular experiences of African, Latina/o, Asian, and Native American students at Gonzaga University. The site adds that recently, “the focus has expanded to continue to meet the needs of a fluid demographic and provide the Gonzaga community with educational and social opportunities to raise cultural awareness.”The department recently hosted “LGBT Nurturing Environments Workshop” for staff and faculty as well as a one person play called “That’s So Gay,” according to their website.
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“The office is situated within the Unity Multicultural Education Center (UMEC).” … enough said.
The only position that needs to be filled is a caring psychologist or psychiatrist who will help these poor folks out of their mental conditioning.
The true hope for those caught up in the homosexualist agenda is found in the Catholic group called “Courage”. This college should disband their LGBT office and implement Courage instead.
I agree, Therese.
Children are being brainwashed at an early age. As a teacher of middle school aged students we have had to intervene with young girls bullying others to join their ‘lifestyle’. You hear nothing about in the media!
How Sad, for St Gonzaga. To have a “Catholic” College soil his name with a LGBT organization connection to it. I am really curious about to which Church the American Jesuits (many of them) belong.
The Battle has begun. Where is the leadership of this Catholic Institution? Are they asleep? Is there anyone bold enough to proclaim the Truth of the Gospel of Life?
Answer: Promote the sacraments; especially confession to remove the errors. Pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy and the most Holy Rosary for the salvation of souls. Call upon the Holy Spirit to enlighten those living in the darkness to see the light.
I remember a while back hearing a Black man express his disgruntlement–not to say indignity– with the current penchant for grouping/classifying the needs of ethnic, racial, and cultural minorities with those of homosexuals, as if being in the minority in race or ethnicity was somehow the same as being someone who chooses to participate in a particular sexual proclivity.
Being an American of Cuban descent, it has long been my impression that the needs of various ethnic, racial, and cultural minorities are peculiar to each group and would be better served by addressing their particular needs; which should have nothing to do with their sexual inclinations! The legitimate needs of these students can best be met through the ‘mentoring friendships’ evolved through association with others of one’s own background, who have already acclimated to the majority group. There are social clubs, ‘co-curricular clubs’, formed by members of various nations, races, religious communities, etc., on most campuses. The ultimate role of these clubs should be to bring about understanding and assimilation, and not division, from the larger populace represented at any given university, especially, under circumstances where the ‘leader’ is going to be hired and paid for by the school.
In a Catholic university, it would not be inappropriate to think that the ultimate goal would be first and foremost a witnessing to the joy of salvation through Jesus Christ, and secondly, Unity, in the recognition of our commonality as human beings made in the Image of God; this can best be accomplished through Faith, Love, Charity, and the Promotion of Dignity and Self-Respect, not the Glorification of Diversity, through the Promotion of Self-Gratification and Promiscuity, which is the ultimate goal of the LGBT groups.