As some of you may or may not know, Notre Dame is planning to welcome and honor President Obama as the commencement speaker this May. I encourage all Christians to voice their disappointment at this action. To do so, go to: www.NotreDameScandal.com. Below is the email I sent to the President of Notre Dame.
Dear Fr. Jenkins,
While I have not attended Notre Dame, I have always had great respect for the University. However, I am very disappointed to hear that Notre Dame will host President Barack Obama as its commencement speaker this May. While President Obama's election as the first African American President is a great milestone in overcoming race barriers, his pro-death initiatives are an outrage and a scandal. In his first month of office and in the midst of an economic crisis, President Obama has redirected taxpayer money out of our country to fund the murder of foreign babies in the womb. He continues his emphatic support for abortion, the Freedom of Choice Act and Planned Parenthood, which promotes promiscuity among youth, and makes money off this behavior through abortion.
For a Catholic University to honor and him is a direct offense to the teachings that Christ, and this would be a terrible scandal in a world that is in desperate need of moral courage and conviction, amidst the plague of moral relativism.
A decision to honor President Obama would be the final confirmation to me, and a large body of faithful Catholics, that Notre Dame is no longer a Catholic University, but a fully secularized, liberal institution, that has lost sight of its mission and commitment to the most important facet of true education and wisdom: The teachings of our Savior, Jesus Christ.
I trust that with prayer and meditation on the will of Christ, you will rescind the offer, and recommit to serving Christ as the foundation of the university.
I can only imagine how hard it will be to reject the opportunity for a sitting president to speak at your university. Criticism and ridicule will result from such an action. But what an opportunity during Lent to walk with Christ who endured that verbal abuse and mocking on the way to the Cross. I will pray for you to have that courage.
May God bless you, may the Holy Spirit give you strength. and may the Mother of God, "Notre Dame", obtain for you wisdom and peace,
