Entertainment?, Maybe! Keynote Speaker? NEVER!!!!!
Can't say this surprizes me though knowing the sorry state of Catholic education in many parts of the USA. Arround here I am firmly convinved that the reason our Archdiocesan schools added Catholic to their name was so people would have a way to tell the difference between them & the public schools. A lot of the problem has to do with how they have bought the NEA leftist leaning agenda & how new teaches are being educated using the PC standards that are destroyng our public schools. & that includes how Catholic Colleges have bought into it hook, line & sinker as well. As an education major long ago & now an employee of the same institution, I am speaking from personal experience.
What doesn't make sense to me is what qualifies him to give te Keynote speech. I enjoy his Lake Wobegon stories, although in recent years they have lost a lot of their zip, as well as some of the other things he does on his show. But I am more qualified than he is to give a keynote speech. As I said, entertainment, maybe, & even then given some of his recent comments I would have huge reservations. But keynote speaker ranks up there with Obama at ND for me. Again, given the mindset rampant in a huge swath of the Catholic Education Profession, this is another symptom of the same problem that was manifest in the Obama at ND invite.
By Kathleen Gilbert
WASHINGTON, DC, March 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The National Catholic Education Association (NCEA) has invited Garrison Keillor, a pro-abortion, pro-gay "marriage" Episcopalian, as a keynote speaker at the group's annual convention. Keillor, well-known as a humorist and host of A Prairie Home Companion, has repeatedly published his pro-abortion, pro-same-sex "marriage" views - and has labeled pro-life, pro-family, and anti-pornography activists "shrieking ninnies and pompous blowhards."
On the issue of abortion, Keillor has been quoted as saying it should be decided "case by case," and that disabled embryonic children should be destroyed.
"The use of abortion as birth control is one thing, the use of it to end pregnancy caused by incest or rape is another, and then there is the decision to destroy an embryo that shows signs of debilitating disease or severe retardation," said Keillor in an interview with Nathan Callahan in 2004.
"In the end, it goes against common sense to require a mother to bear a child she does not want, just as you can't force husband and wife to stay together."
Keillor also decried "the so-called cultural wars over abortion and prayer in the schools and pornography and gays," most of which he said was "instigated by shrieking ninnies and pompous blowhards" who "did nothing about anything, except elect dullards to office who brought a certain nihilistic approach to governance."
On same-sex "marriage," in a January column for the Salt Lake Tribune, Keillor said, "I believe that if voters actually knew gay couples, they would not vote to ban gay marriage. This particular cruelty is the result of social separation, which breeds contempt."
Keillor is slated to address the NCEA at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, April 7. The NCEA did not return LifeSiteNews.com's request for comment as of press time.
In 2001, the dioceses of Pittsburgh, Penn. and Peoria, Ill. boycotted the NCEA for granting a speaking opportunity to Sr. Joan Chittiser, a Benedictine nun who famously dissents from Catholic teaching on homosexuality and female ordination.
Contact information:
NCEA email form here
Dr. Karen M. Ristau, Ed.D.
WASHINGTON, DC, March 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The National Catholic Education Association (NCEA) has invited Garrison Keillor, a pro-abortion, pro-gay "marriage" Episcopalian, as a keynote speaker at the group's annual convention. Keillor, well-known as a humorist and host of A Prairie Home Companion, has repeatedly published his pro-abortion, pro-same-sex "marriage" views - and has labeled pro-life, pro-family, and anti-pornography activists "shrieking ninnies and pompous blowhards."
On the issue of abortion, Keillor has been quoted as saying it should be decided "case by case," and that disabled embryonic children should be destroyed.
"The use of abortion as birth control is one thing, the use of it to end pregnancy caused by incest or rape is another, and then there is the decision to destroy an embryo that shows signs of debilitating disease or severe retardation," said Keillor in an interview with Nathan Callahan in 2004.
"In the end, it goes against common sense to require a mother to bear a child she does not want, just as you can't force husband and wife to stay together."
Keillor also decried "the so-called cultural wars over abortion and prayer in the schools and pornography and gays," most of which he said was "instigated by shrieking ninnies and pompous blowhards" who "did nothing about anything, except elect dullards to office who brought a certain nihilistic approach to governance."
On same-sex "marriage," in a January column for the Salt Lake Tribune, Keillor said, "I believe that if voters actually knew gay couples, they would not vote to ban gay marriage. This particular cruelty is the result of social separation, which breeds contempt."
Keillor is slated to address the NCEA at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, April 7. The NCEA did not return LifeSiteNews.com's request for comment as of press time.
In 2001, the dioceses of Pittsburgh, Penn. and Peoria, Ill. boycotted the NCEA for granting a speaking opportunity to Sr. Joan Chittiser, a Benedictine nun who famously dissents from Catholic teaching on homosexuality and female ordination.
Contact information:
NCEA email form here
Dr. Karen M. Ristau, Ed.D.
President, National Catholic Educational Association
1005 North Glebe Road
Arlington, VA 22201
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