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same old drag

Posted by: Diogenes - May. 03, 2007 3:02 PM
ET USA

Santa Clara's university in the Jesuit tradition
is seeking new ways to implement Ex Corde Ecclesiae and
expand the horizons of its students.

May GASPED and GALA have your attention, ladies and
gentlemen -- or ladies dressed as gentlemen -- or gentlemen
dressed as ladies? The 6th annual Santa Clara Drag Show will be
breaking down gender stereotypes left and right, say participants
and organizers, tomorrow, May 4, at 8 p.m. in the California
Mission Room. ...

You want to shatter Uncle Di's gender stereotypes of California
students, boys and girls? Try this. Men: get up and go to 6:00 Mass.
Women: make it to confession twice a week.

Representatives from Gay & Straight People for the
Education of Diversity and Gay and Lesbian Alliance, as well as
from Santa Clara Community Action Program, say they have worked
hard to ensure that this year's show incorporates more elements of
education about the lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender/transsexual/two-spirited and queer/questioning
communities. This year, skits and interviews about the history of
transgender prejudice that will be incorporated into the show.

That's to say, heels and feather boas are giving way to feather
boas and heels. Feel the creativity. We've grown.

Max Voltage, who is responsible for starting the Drag
Show at Santa Clara, said to performers, "Take risks, push
boundaries, challenge your audience. But also, find that line to
walk, between risky art and oppressive crap," in an essay written
for The Third National Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender &
Ally Conference for Jesuit Colleges.

Lost me here, Max. In this context, what qualifies as "risky"
art? What could a progressive student at a Jesuit college
conceivably put at risk, however he spoke, whatever he did? Where in
the soap bubble of undergraduate life would he encounter a person
with the will, much less the authority, to deprive him of any
liberty, or privilege, or satisfaction? To find an adult with a
coherent view of human dignity that excluded the transgender,
transsexual, two-spirited, and queer/questioning project, he'd have
to make his way off-campus to a mosque or a pentecostal church. Not
impossible, but hardly a live risk.

The conference, which was hosted at Santa Clara last
summer, is held for Jesuit universities to facilitate discussion
and action within the LGBTQ communities. According to Voltage, if
performers, or "stars," as they are referred to in planning
meetings, are successful, they will empower both men and women
without demeaning either gender with sexist or oppressive
stereotypes.

A dead limb doesn't twitch when the doctor pricks it, and some
ideologues have a wooden humorlessness that no irony can goad back
to life. The rebellion against sexist/oppressive stereotypes is
itself so stereotyped as to collapse onto itself with a thud. That
was your horizon that got expanded yesterday evening, wasn't
it, Mister Voltage?

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Posted by: Centurion - May. 04, 2007
10:04 PM ET USA

What can one say about the Jesuits that has
not already been said? Daily they prove most critiques correct.
There are some outstanding men left but shut off from positions of
influence. Some are simply put out to pasture or their own devices
and supported as long as they do not make any waves. The up coming
congregation is a critical time for the Pope. The "new" Jesuits
think he had better watch his step and leave them alone.

Posted by: Meg Q - May. 04, 2007 7:25 PM
ET USA

We got the "Discalced Carmelites" - maybe we
could get the "Non-Activist Jesuits"?

"Max Voltage" (HA! that has *got* to be a "nom de theatre")
fancies himself quite the rebel and groundbreaker. But it sounds
like "oppressive crap" is far more apt than "risky art". I'm sure
the Santa Clara student body will turn out en masse for this
innovative tour de force.

Posted by: Ignacio - May. 04, 2007 3:24
PM ET USA

I agree with Gino. The Pope has a good
oportunity to do something in the upcomming General Congregation of
the Jesuits. Start a reform order of the strict observance. There
would not even have to be a new constitution. The old one would work
quite well. The down fall of the Society has been judicial activism.
De facto re-interpretation of the rules under "the spirit of the
council." Better said: judical passivism - superiors refused to ref
the game and handed the whistle to the players.

Posted by: Gino - May. 04, 2007 1:18 PM
ET USA

There is no more Society of Jesus! The few
Jesuits who are orthodox should start a new order. The ones who are
left would probably become Episcopal. Saint Ignatius would
definitely approve. We used to call the Jesuits, God's shock troops.
They definitely are not "Shock Troops"; they are SHOCKING to all
orthodox Catholics. It is definitely time for the Vatican to act!

Posted by: Laity1 - May. 04, 2007 12:23
PM ET USA

May I have some oppressive crap please?

Posted by: Novak - May. 04, 2007 12:00 PM
ET USA

Quousque tandem abutere, O Societas Iesu,
patientia nostra? quam diu etiam perfidia ista tua nos eludet? ...
"In the Jesuit tradition...." St. Ignatius is turning over in his
grave.

Posted by: Eleazar - May. 04, 2007 7:26
AM ET USA

Just a heads up that the House of
Representatives voted 237-180 yesterday to expand federal hate
crimes law to include articles such as this as hate crimes. We could
all soon be criminals in the eyes of the feds for speaking out in
opposition to the continued pollution of our Church, culture and
country by groups like GASPED and GALA.

Posted by: www.inquisition.ca - May. 03,
2007 9:39 PM ET USA

Amen to "special ops sacerdos"!

Posted by: EX COP - May. 03, 2007 9:22 PM
ET USA

Maybe Martin and Julian, discussed in "None
Too Soon" , will serve as guest presenters...er...make that "stars".
I agree. It is time for Rome to bring the Jesuits (the majority of
them anyhow) to a screeching halt. Lay down the rules, settle for
nothing less than an oath of obedience, re-admit those who will
conform, and cast the remainder adrift....they already are adrift
after all. At the same time take "Catholic" out of the name of most
so-called "Catholic" colleges & universities.

Posted by: Leo XIII - May. 03, 2007 8:29
PM ET USA

The Vatican will continue to react to leftist
attacks as they pick up intensity in Italy and Europe. Eventually,
the Vatican will force the American bishops to toe the line on the
subjects of abortion, homosexuality and other points on the left's
agenda. The Holy Father cannot be oblivious to the almost complete
dominination of the Jesuits by marxists and associated left wingers.
He will take action to rectify the situation within the next year.
That's my prediction, for what it is worth

Posted by: Janet Baker - May. 03, 2007
7:49 PM ET USA

Well, they got the "crap" part right!

Posted by: special ops sacerdos - May.
03, 2007 7:34 PM ET USA

Is this not enough evidence for the Holy
Father to Re-form the Jesuits?

Pope Benedict XVI can suppress the Jesuits, then demand that all
members sign an oath of absolute obedience to the Church,
Magisterium & Holy Father; then, the Holy Father can appoint
orthodox- traditional-obedient-to-the-Faith Jesuits (eg Frs. Fessio,
SJ, Shaughnessy, SJ, & others) to lead the Jesuits in a Reform
of the Reform. Simply put, the Holy Father can directly clean the
stables of the Society of Jesus, AMDG.

Posted by: Fides - May. 03, 2007 7:19 PM
ET USA

My hat's off to you Uncle Di. You ARE right,
.... "collapse onto itself with a thud". I used to be so upset when
I read this stuff, but now I realize that this too will pass. Just
as the hippie sixies, the fluffy 70's, etc. One day we as humans
will run through all the tricks of the trickster and will wake up.
Some we may go through 40 or 50 times. But in the end, God truly is
in control. He holds all in His hands. We just think we do.

Posted by: Linus - May. 03, 2007 5:04 PM
ET USA

More fruits from the Land O'Lakes Agreement
which secularized Catholic colleges. Now we continue to pay the
price. Is there a bishop anywhere around?

Posted by: k9annie - May. 03, 2007 4:29
PM ET USA

This makes me very sad. Is there anything the
Jesuits can add that would explain to me how any of this is God's
revelation?

Posted by: patriot6908 - May. 03, 2007
3:33 PM ET USA

"...they will empower both men and women
without demeaning either gender..." This assumes in the eyes of the
neo-sexual devolutionists that there are but two genders, when in
fact, if one even remotely follows this 21st Century Satyricon
adaptation, there may be many--albeit mixed up by the primary
two--rather like mixing two primary color dyes for what we used to
call Easter eggs before Easter became an offensive term for the new
secular humanists.

Posted by: parochus - May. 03, 2007 3:21
PM ET USA

Homosexual men aren't men who act like women,
they're men who act like teenage girls.

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