Cultural and societal changes have gone through a quantum leap in the past 15 to 20 years. As an example, look at the secular tsunami that washes away cultural landmarks such as marriage, family, common good, and objective right and wrong. To sense just how far we have stumbled, one need only consider what passes for \u201cbreaking news\u201d nowadays: a lack of fundamental respect for the dignity of life; a seemingly relentless campaign to redefine constitutional religious liberty to mean nothing more than freedom to worship in the sanctuary of your choice; the codification of politically correct redefinitions of marriage, family, abortion, and religious freedom into law; and criticism of those who fail to support these re-definitions as purveyors of \u201chate speech.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even Catholic institutions are not immune. Just recently, on the campus of Georgetown University, a Catholic student group\u00a0faced something<\/a>\u00a0that would have been unthinkable a couple of decades ago: being designated a hate group for professing the Catholic faith and its definition of marriage.<\/p>\n \u201cLove Saxa,\u201d a group that\u00a0advocates<\/a>\u00a0for marriage between a man and a woman, came under fire from campus LGBTQ groups, according to\u00a0The Hoya<\/a><\/em>, a Georgetown student publication. A member of the student government argued that Love Saxa\u2019s definition of marriage and relationships violated university standards by fostering hatred or intolerance.<\/p>\n Fortunately, the university administration upheld the student-run advisory board\u2019s judgment that the public expression of the Catholic faith that marriage is between a man and a woman is neither hate speech nor discrimination. But what remains troubling is that we have come so close to allowing a few determined social engineers to silence the rest of us<\/strong>.<\/p>\n