You know, when I chose to go to the college I'm at, one of the reasons I was willing to come here, despite it being a catholic university, was that it's a Benedictine university and if there's one group that's all about social justice, it's the benedictines. The monks watch The Real World for cripes sake, this is not some stodgy conservative backwater.
But Facebook is all abuzz because apparently at the student mass tonight (technically last night but whatever) the priest and eucharistic ministers denied communion to anyone wearing a rainbow flag pin. (The pins are in reaction to the fact that catholic bishops in Minnesota are planning a DVD campaign to get Minnesota voters to ban SSM in the state and this liberal student body is not happy about it.) Anyway, my irritation here is that I came here, among other reasons, because I felt reasonably assured that assy things like this wouldn't happen and now I'm angry because I'm going to have to write letters to the school newspaper and the administration and frankly, I shouldn't have to shame them into being respectful of other people but here we are. sunuvabitch