WASHINGTON – Georgetown University has eliminated content material from their legislation heart's web site that critics say inspired college students to donate money and time to pro-choice and pro-LGBT associates.
The transfer got here after the group TFP Student Action – a mission of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property – launched a petition in opposition to the fabric, which they argue conflicts with the Catholic values of the establishment.
As said by TFP, Georgetown Law Library revealed a analysis information on the historical past of civil rights within the United States on its web site that included a hyperlink to help numerous pro-choice and pro-LGBT teams. Those teams embrace Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the Center for Reproductive Rights, the National Organization for Women (NOW), EMILY's List, ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Lambda Legal.
"In other words, Georgetown favored the abortion movement and its attempt to disfigure the truth by suggesting that the grave sin of abortion is a 'civil right,'" John Ritchie, TFP Student Action director, advised CBN News.
"In reality," he continued, "nothing can be more outrageous than to call the killing of a small, defenseless and innocent human being created by God for a unique purpose a 'civil right,' especially on a campus that purports to be Catholic."
After hundreds signed TFP's petition, Georgetown University eliminated the webpage and it's not accessible.
"This guide was not consistent with the Law Library's research practices and was removed. Georgetown's Law Library research practices discourage any advocacy and promote objective, fact-based research," Tanya Weinberg, Georgetown legislation director of Media Relations, wrote in a assertion to CBN News.
When requested in regards to the challenges he confronted together with his petition in opposition to the college, Ritchie advised CBN News, "The biggest challenge to get any petition off the ground is overcoming indifference."
"But in this case, more than 13,000 people stood up and said, 'We will not be silent. We will defend the unborn and uphold Catholic morality.' Those who truly love God are never indifferent but ready to defend what is right and good," he mentioned.
TFP's on-line petition additionally requires Dr. John J. DeGioia, the president of Georgetown University, to switch legislation professor Zoe Segal-Reichlin, who works for Planned Parenthood, with "a real Catholic law professor who respects God and the human right to life."
"Faithful Catholic students, alumni and parents have a clear message for Georgetown: Please stop supporting Planned Parenthood and start serving God," mentioned Ritchie.
This will not be the primary time that Georgetown University has come underneath fireplace for selling abortion. Cecile Richards, the previous president of Planned Parenthood, was invited to talk on the campus in April 2016, inflicting a lot backlash.
"Over time, the oldest Catholic university in America has become a place where God is no longer welcome," Ritchie charged. "Georgetown has drifted so far away from its Catholic roots that it makes you wonder: Who is Georgetown serving? God or Planned Parenthood? Because real Catholics never support abortion or same-s3x marriage."
"So someone needed to sound the alarm. And that's what TFP Student Action's petition did. It sounded the alarm and called others to voice their concern and pray for a return to virtue and moral values," mentioned Ritchie.