<p>Putting aside for a moment the inflammatory language used in the extremist websites cited, and assuming the basic facts are true (who knows, considering the sources), Georgetown has every right to set the curriculum for its summer program, including assuring that its students will respect one another’s differences and treat one another with respect, and also has every right to remove a student who refuses to participate in a required course. So my response to this post is “So what?”</p>
<p>Didn’t BYU kick a guy off the basketball team for heterosexual sex with his girlfriend? I thought schools could set policies concerning cirriculum and conduct?</p>
<p>Their school, their rules. I wouldn’t attend a school that makes me go to religious ceremonies, he shouldn’t go to a school that has policies he doesn’t agree with.</p>
<p>I expect BYU would do that 07Dad, they also forbid women to wear tank tops in the gym, and beards.
So there are other schools you could choose if you think Jesuits are too liberal.;)</p>
<p>If you didn’t attend training that was required for your scholarship program, should you really be surprised when they decided to withdraw their offer?</p>
<p>I wonder what part of Jerret’s religion (or culture according to the author) says he doesn’t need to be sensitive to the issues facing the LBGT community?</p>
<p>Agree 100% with this. And if he refused to go, he was ultimately saying that he wanted to be disrespectful of his fellow students – which I have a very low tolerance for.</p>
<p>BYU will actually allow a beard if you have a specific reason for it – you get a card saying that you have permission that you have to carry around with you. I read a blog by someone who had permission because he was playing Jesus on some kind of Christian video.</p>
<p>Assuming that the basic facts are accurate, he was required to attend the session, not to agree with whatever points it made. </p>
<p>Georgetown also has, I believe, a theology course requirement of some sort. Again, the student is required to take the course, not to agree.</p>
<p>I have no more sympathy for him than I would for a Jewish or atheist student who knowingly applied to an institution that required Christian faith practices and then refused to participate and was expelled. (A school at which he would probably be happy as a clam.) It is a private institution. It can make its own rules. Too bad.</p>
<p>The article was stupid. “what’s next, an atheist has to take a course in theology?”. Uh well yes, at Georgetown. Don’t like it? Don’t apply there. </p>