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: CHICAGO, Illinois, October 18, 2016
: (LifeSiteNews) – College Republicans at
: DePaul University were prohibited by the
: university president from displaying posters
: on campus advertising their group with the
: pro-life message, “Unborn Lives Matter.”
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: Vincentian Father Dennis Holtschneider
: indicated to the university community on
: Friday in a letter that the “Unborn Lives
: Matter” message constituted “bigotry”
: occurring “under the cover of free speech,”
: The Daily Wire reports.
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: The College Republicans followed protocol in
: submitting the design for approval to
: promote the group, its pro-life views, and
: its meeting times before hanging the posters
: on campus.
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: However, the request made its way to Father
: Holtschneider, who responded that the
: administration would protect the university
: community from the pro-life message’s
: bigotry, the report said, and that the
: pro-life poster “provokes” members of the
: controversial Black Lives Matter political
: movement, the message of which is allowed on
: campus.
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: "By our nature, we are committed to
: developing arguments and exploring important
: issues that can be steeped in controversy
: and, oftentimes, emotion," Father
: Holtschneider’s letter said. "Yet there
: will be times when some forms of speech
: challenge our grounding in Catholic and
: Vincentian values. When that happens, you
: will see us refuse to allow members of our
: community to be subjected to bigotry that
: occurs under the cover of free speech."
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: Father Holtschneider, president of the
: nation’s largest Catholic university since
: 2004, went on to mention the recent banning
: of a speaker and asking students to redesign
: another banner that reportedly “provokes the
: Black Lives Matter” movement in his
: rationale, and linked to the University’s
: “Guiding Principles on Speech and
: Expression” document before asking students
: to consider a statement that apparently
: assumes the Unborn Lives Matter message is
: hurtful and inconsistent with Catholic
: values.
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: "We accept that there is a distinction
: between being provocative and being
: hurtful,” he said. “Speech whose primary
: purpose is to wound is inconsistent with our
: Vincentian and Catholic values."
:
: LifeSiteNews asked the university for a copy
: of the letter and clarification on how the
: pro-life message was hurtful and
: inconsistent with Catholic values, and how,
: given both messages purport to convey that
: lives matter, one is acceptable on campus
: while another is not. The administration did
: not respond to several requests.
:
: John Minster, vice president of the college
: Republicans, told The Daily Wire the letter
: from Father Holtschneider amounted to
: “shaming” the student group
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: "Once again, DePaul University has
: shown its true colors," Minster said,
: pointing out that the civil liberties
: non-profit Foundation for Individual Rights
: in Education had said DePaul University
: might be the worst school for free speech in
: the nation.
:
: Minster continued, "Rather than
: standing up for the pro-life and free speech
: ethics this ‘Catholic’ university claims to
: uphold, administration has bent the knee to
: radical leftists, banning more speech
: despite the pro-life message.
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: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/depaul-university-president-calls-unborn-lives-matter-posters-bigotry-bans
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