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No offense, but you're being a bit pedantic here IMO. The group organizing the walk-out is a group against Pence because of his conservative views on social issues. I think it's well-understood then that this group is going to be comprised of liberal students.
May I enlighten you?
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"Trump's administration is completely different than any in the past," says senior Maddie McGovern. The self-identified conservative draws a distinction between Pence's appearance on campus and that of other Republican leaders. "This is not about politics. Notre Dame should be standing up to this administration's hate speech."
President Obama delivered the commencement address at Notre Dame in 2009 (as had George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, and Dwight Eisenhower before him), but the University invited Pence instead of Donald Trump in the hopes of avoiding a “circus,” as the university’s president put it.
My cousin is a Notre Dame alum (both undergrad (earning Phi Beta Kappa), and law school). If my cousin had walked out on either graduation, my uncle (who gladly paid for said education) would have kicked his son's a**.
Both my father and my uncle received a Catholic education from elementary school through college, and both were altar boys. Their father...public K-12, but Jesuit re college and law school. Other cousins of mine on my father's side attended public universities, but I'm the only one of the grandchildren on that side who went through public schools prior to college. If any of my cousins read this thread...heads would start shaking in disgust re the plan.
It happens at religion-based colleges, so why isn't public funding available for K-12 education in the form of school vouchers?
why should it be, no one is making people send their kids to a religious school it's their choice. Having taxpayers pay for a religious education is about as stupid as it would be to suggest that church goers should be provided with free bus passes to go to church
No offense, but you're being a bit pedantic here IMO. The group organizing the walk-out is a group against Pence because of his conservative views on social issues. I think it's well-understood then that this group is going to be comprised of liberal students.
Pedantic? Well, la dee da.
Well understood?
Perhaps these are patriotic students who object to Pence allowing a Russian agent have access to all our classified national security intelligence.
Perhaps they are conservatives who object to being tarred with the same brush as this bunch of traitors and grifters.
Perhaps they just don't want to celebrate by sitting and listening to someone lie to their faces.
You questioned if the group of walkers was liberal or not. I answered that it's assumed they are. I based that on the article linked in the OP, which says:
The protest is being organized by student activist group “We StaND for” in protest of Pence’s policies and their school’s gift of an honorary degree to the vice president. Specifically, they are walking out because Pence has “targeted the civil rights protections of members of (the) LGBT+ community, rejected the Syrian refugee resettlement program, supported an unconstitutional ban of religious minorities, and fought against sanctuary cities.
The core values of this group are not even remotely conservative. One could very reasonably and accurately conclude that these particular student protestors are liberal. I can't make you agree, but I do question how anybody could arrive at a different conclusion given the group's own self-identification of socially liberal causes.
My cousin is a Notre Dame alum (both undergrad (earning Phi Beta Kappa), and law school). If my cousin had walked out on either graduation, my uncle (who gladly paid for said education) would have kicked his son's a**.
Both my father and my uncle received a Catholic education from elementary school through college, and both were altar boys. Their father...public K-12, but Jesuit re college and law school. Other cousins of mine on my father's side attended public universities, but I'm the only one of the grandchildren on that side who went through public schools prior to college. If any of my cousins read this thread...heads would start shaking in disgust re the plan.
With all this Catholicism in your family, it's surprising that you don't hold the words of the Pope in higher esteem.
Oh, well. That's the way it goes.
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