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| Marquette President Fr. Scott Pilarz at former U of Scranton office |
Marquette’s decision last year to rescind the position of dean of the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences to a lesbian scholar, Jodi O’Brien, also came up for discussion.Milwaukee Catholic Herald
The former president of the University of Scranton, a Jesuit University in Pennsylvania, said he was key to the development of the Scranton Inclusion Initiative which responded to the pastoral needs of gay and lesbian students – with opposition from the conservative community.
Fr. Pilarz said he doesn’t know all of the details about what happened at Marquette last year, and wouldn’t second-guess what happened because he wasn’t a part of the process, but he stressed there is no room in the Catechism of the Catholic Church for discrimination or exclusion on the basis of sexual orientation.
“I can assure you, going forward, Marquette will not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sexual orientation,” he said.
Some of this is left ambiguous; "pastoral needs" "discrimination" etc. What does he really mean by these things? I assume it means the world has it right on homosexual acts and that old outdated Church needs to get with the times.