No Controversy Over Controversial Issues Policy?

On Monday, the new policy concerning "controversial" events on campus was unveiled.

So far, I have heard no outcry, but perhaps few have slogged all the way through the policy's vague, legal wording, or have missed, among procedural tedium, its broader implications.

Here's the line that sent up a red flag for me:
"...such controversial issues are to be engaged during, prior to, or subsequent to, the presentation, in light of Catholic teachings..."

The hammer comes down. No ifs, ands, or buts. Doesn't matter what the topic is. The discussion must include religion.

I had a problem with this last year during the Corvino controversy, and I still do. What will this entail? A religious authority coming in as a kind of tag line...there's a lot of gray in this issue, but here's what you should believe? That was what was proposed with Corivino.

I suppose that at least with some forewarning of this requirement, the event planners will at least be allowed to choose who represents Catholic teaching and how.

I'm curious to see it in action, and I wonder what its first test run will be.

In the meantime, I'm still pushing for protection of gay students on campus, another necessary action made obvious last year by the Corvino event. Sexual orientation and gender identity remain conspicuously absent from our non-discrimination policy.