UW Badger Catholics to pray rosary outside "Gentleman's" Club in Madison

From UW Badger Catholic

We are going to Silk Exotic to pray a rosary outside the doors for the intentions of those struggling with sexual immorality so they can find the love they are looking for. We will meet at St. Paul's and drive from there. It's about a 15 minute drive. It would be great to have as many people as possible so we can have the biggest possible impact in the battle against satan. Please RSVP so we can arrange rides. If you want to drive that would also be great.

That's what I'm talkin bout!  

HT Maggie

BTW, they are on Facebook.  I'm grateful not to be the object of a copyright lawsuit - but honestly, I googled the name and searched and found nothing when I named this blog.  I'm thinking I need to get me one of the shirts...

UW Badger Catholic funding approved

A student government committee approved Badger Catholic's 2012-'13 budget in a meeting Thursday.

The Student Services Finance Committee passed the $160,300 budget after making minor amendments to the group's original proposed budget.

SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart said the committee approved the funding because Badger Catholic had a responsible fiscal budget.

"There were just a couple changes to salaries and advertising that were needed to make the budget as well as it could be," Neibart said.

Daily Cardinal

Badger Catholic Chair Nico Fassino also spoke during Monday’s meeting and asked for an overall decrease in funding.

Fassino also apologized for an unintentional violation incident concerning bookkeeping later deemed to be minor by SSFC.

Badger Herald

UW back after Badger Catholic Student Org

Dinesh D’Souza debates atheist at UW

University of Wisconsin student government members deliberated a request Monday night by the Multicultural Student Center to alter over $5,000 of the organization’s initial budget, which the Student Services Finance Committee chair ultimately denied.

MCSC representatives said they wanted to move the money from funding direct services for students to provide for traveling expenditures and fees for the organization’s trainers.

SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart said she decided to deny the budget altercation as she read the application because the budget proposal was inconsistent from what the committee had approved the previous fall.

During its Thursday meeting, SSFC is expected to take up a possible violation from the religious student organization Badger Catholic.

Badger Herald

I see they have a new website as well.  You might recognize the location of the picture.

UW Badger Catholic "Night On the Town"

Badger Catholic will be putting on it's 2nd annual date auction to raise money in an effort to subsidize the cost of Break Service Trips put on by the Badger Catholic Service Team!

Event Info:
November 4, 2011 7-11pm
Gordon Commons
... Hors d'oeuvre, Auction, and Dancing
$2 Entrance Fee

This "Date Night" is an awesome opportunity for girls and guys to hangout, get to know each other, and enjoy an evening out on the town together.

This is how it works: 3 guys will get together and plan a date evening for three lovely ladies. The date should include a dinner of some sort and a fun, creative activity!

HOWEVER - be sure to keep your identity under wraps as the ladies will be bidding solely on the description of your "date"...so be CREATIVE!! Guys, also please remember that splitting the cost of the date between group members is your contribution to the fundraiser!

The guys' groups are due FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22nd and descriptions are due FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28th!!!!

Once the dates have been planned, all guys and girls will get together on Nov. 4th at 7pm in Gordon Commons for the Date Auction ($2 entry fee per person), which includes appetizers, dancing, and a live auction for the dates! So ladies will also form groups of 3 to bid on the date description you think sounds best! Girls will then be introduced to the guys providing the date and the group of 6 will get together on a later day for their night on the town! :)

details at UW Badger Catholic

related AOM:  Stop Hanging Out With Women and Start Dating Them

BadgerHerald: UW Badger Catholic right to receive student funding

Our humble university has decided to capitulate and pay legal costs to an unusual group.

No, it’s not a center for diversity. And it’s not my personal party fund either.

It’s the Badger Catholic student group. In 2007, the group was turned down for a funding request for religious activities. The university had denied the group a large sum of money (something to the tune of 35,000 clams) because it is seen as “religious.” The debate quickly devolved into an argument of separation of church and state. A look at the distribution of segregated fees showed that the university had given money to them before. The report did not go into specifics, but either the group asked for money for non-religious events or the university didn’t seem to have a problem with religious activities earlier.

Of course Badger Catholic is religious, but that shouldn’t keep the university from sharing a bit of that large stack of segregated fees (the same seg fees that buy the condoms at the Sex Out Loud booth. Go grab some!). The First Amendment is quite clear about the freedom of Badger Catholic to do what it likes, and the university is wrong to deny them even the smallest fraction of the much-coveted bounty (feel free to take a look and see how much cash was collected in the name of segregated fees — more than $1 million). Segregated fees are paid with your tuition at the start of each semester. This past semester was approximately $700 per student — not a small sum if each of the 40,000 students has to pay up. What doesn’t go the Natatorium and SERF (and other maintenance items) can be distributed to those who request it.

In their attempt to turn down the church-and-state-mixing Badger Catholics, the university’s legal fees ended up coming to almost $500,000. Not only that, but they wasted a lot of time on lawyers, appeals and the 7th U.S. Circuit Court.

The university claimed that allocating money to Badger Catholic would appear as if they were endorsing the beliefs of that group. But the UW has allocated money to many groups that could be interpreted as “endorsement.” Not everyone agrees with ASM or those awesome glow-in-the-dark condoms from Sex Out Loud, yet they receive seg fee money without much hassle.

continue at The Badger Herald

Note: The Badger Catholic blog and the UW Badger Catholic Student Org are two separate groups.  

UW pays ADF a half million dollars in legal fees for UW discrimination against Christians

MADISON, Wis. —The University of Wisconsin-Madison has agreed to cover legal costs racked up as a result of its latest multi-year effort to discriminate against Christian students in Badger Catholic v. Walsh. ADF has been involved in six different lawsuits involving the state university system’s relentless discrimination against Christian and conservative groups.

“Universities should recognize the constitutional rights of Christian students and ministries just as they do for all other students and campus groups,” said ADF Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence.  “Sadly, the University refused to do so, and instead squandered money by trying to defend the indefensible:  blatant, unlawful discrimination against Christian students and ministries.”

In September 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit ruled that University of Wisconsin-Madison officials violated the First Amendment by refusing to fund certain events of Badger Catholic, a registered student group, while providing funding for the events of other student organizations. The university refused to provide funds from student activity fees because the student group’s events contained religious expression, including prayer, worship, and proselytization. In March 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court denied review of the decision, allowing it to stand.

ADF filed this lawsuit after the university violated the terms of a settlement agreement reached in a previous lawsuit on behalf of the same group when it was known as the Roman Catholic Foundation. The federal courts again agreed with ADF and the university will cover nearly $500,000 in legal costs incurred as a result of the university’s refusal to obey the U.S. Constitution and repeated judgments against it in federal court.

 Alliance Defense Fund

UW Badger Catholic and embryonic stem-cell research

Two opponents of embryonic stem cell research expressed enthusiasm for a recent UW discovery of highly functional stem cells that do not require embryonic cells to function.

Justin Brumbaugh, a UW-Madison graduate student who helped lead the study, said the stem cells, called induced pluripotent cells, do not require embryos or fetal cells but have the same capabilities as embryonic stem cells.

Nico Fassino, chair of Badger Catholic, said he strongly opposes embryonic stem-cell research, but applauds scientists' efforts to create an alternative that does not "take advantage of defenseless persons."

"I think that's a really beautiful scientific breakthrough," Fassino said. "I really hope they're able to apply this to … the medical field, so this has a wide and positive impact on curing a lot of the ailments that embryonic stem-cell research is currently aimed at."

According to Fassino, the Catholic reservation toward embryonic stem-cell research does not come from an inherent dislike for scientific progress but from the belief that every human life begins at conception, making the destruction of embryos for science murder in their eyes.

"[The study] demonstrates that nature will find a way," said Matt Sande, Director of Legislation at Pro-Life Wisconsin. "There's always an ethical way to achieve a medical and scientific way if we are diligent and patient."

During his campaign, Gov. Scott Walker did not take a decisive stance for or against stem cell-research as a whole, but did firmly oppose research involving embryonic stem cells.

UW Cardinal