Notre Dame Alumni Protest Obama Invitation
A Notre Dame alumni group has inititiated a protest against their alma mater for inviting Barack Obama to give the commencement address and offer him an honorary degree. Project Sycamore is urging protest of Notre Dame's decision. Here is their letter to ND President Fr. Jenkins: We wish to express our astonished dismay at, and deep disappointment in, the decision to invite President Barack Obama to deliver this year’s Commencement Address and to confer upon him an honorary degree. President Obama’s statements and executive and legislative actions identify him as unremittingly hostile to the moral claims of the unborn and accordingly to a central teaching of the Catholic Church. By virtue of his position, he is now the nation’s leading champion of virtually unrestricted abortion rights. Notre Dame is the nation’s leading Catholic institution. Its action will be publicized widely by enemies of the Church and by pro-abortion advocates as a sign that the pro-life position is too “i...