This is pretty awful if it is what it seems to be. The video says it’s part of a freshman orientation performance for students of Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota, a Lutheran college. Honestly, it looks like the inmates have taken over the asylum.
You think parents know this is what they’re getting for $40,000 a year? No. But that’s the point. I guarantee that most parents have no idea they’re dropping their kids off to see something like this, to become a part of something like this.
Christian higher education is nearly extinct in this country with a few notable exceptions.
I wonder if there are similar things going on at Catholic colleges all over the country as well.
Warning: Offensive language alert.
And in case you thought these things weren’t indicative of the rest of the performance here’s some more outtakes which, if possible, are even more offensive.
October 8, 2010 at 2:56 pm
Lutherans, just like a number of other ecclesial communities, have deteriorated into a religious expression of leftist ideology. That explains the propagandizing freshman dis-orientation skits. Christian in name only.
October 8, 2010 at 3:12 pm
This getting to be part of the massive indoctrination that promotes social and individual depravity occurring in our country. It a clear sign that despite tea parties and orthodox re-invigoration, our nation is quickly spiraling downward towards it own destruction. When not promoting degenerate sexual practices, our institutions are heralding the demise of this Republic, its values and its massive contributions to the well being of the world.
Many Catholic institutions are as much to blame as anything among the Protestants. All will be held to account for these scandals by Our Lord.
October 8, 2010 at 3:42 pm
When Islamic/Sharia law is instituted, these people will run back in the closet as quickly as they came out. Sharia law will end their life. Islam has the spine to end this crazy kind of thinking, so these liberal youth have helped put an end to their ridiculous ways against Alah.
Christianity has failed the United States of America.
October 8, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Christianity has all the spine necessary to deal with this appropriately. It's not Christianity that has failed; we have. Put the blame where it belongs. Things wouldn't get better with Sharia law – for anyone. Things would get better if more "Christians" actually lived like Christians.
October 8, 2010 at 4:02 pm
King Gustavus Adolphus is rolling over in his grave.
October 8, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Contortions and various configurations reminded me of drawings on the walls of homes in Pompeii. I had difficult looking at them to. Did Someone else? I wonder were they left as a reminder of what comes of such –yes– good word– depravity?
October 8, 2010 at 7:26 pm
The college's website claims to be a "church-related" school "firmly rooted in its Swedish and Lutheran heritage." I had no idea this is what Martin Luther intended in his Ninety-Five Theses!
And did anyone catch the atheist student at the end of the first video? That's some good work by the Lutherans!
October 8, 2010 at 7:59 pm
I went to a state university (all my siblings went to either Franciscan or Ave Maria)- lived at home, led singing at super early Sunday Mass, sand in the choir at the mass my family went to. My faith was preserved- I might not have been so lucky if I had gone to a mainstream Catholic U
October 8, 2010 at 8:10 pm
well that presentation sure was gay… both literally and idiomatically…
October 8, 2010 at 9:21 pm
I only made it through half, but I'm guessing "straight" didn't come up?
The Lutherans have lost the plot. Luther would be turning in his grave.
October 8, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Gustavus Adolphus College is affiliated with ELCA, and that tells all. ELCA stands for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, but the body is no longer Evangelical, Lutheran nor a Church. Other Lutheran bodies (LCMS, WELS) have done a better job of retaining the faith.
October 9, 2010 at 2:15 am
And I'm leaving public school after decades because I'm burnt out with the collapse of the whole darned mess. Ora pro me; I don't know what I'm going to next.
October 10, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Regardless of how you feel about LGBTQ sexuality, it's a good thing to accept people. Not necessarily what they do (I don't believe sex outside of marriage is a good thing, period), but homosexual relations is no more wrong than is extramarital relations.
The Catholic Church ought to accept all people: but regardless of identity (and really, why would anyone in America CHOOSE to be gay?), Catholics are required to live counterculturally. It's not a sin for men to be attracted to men, just like it's not a sin for men to be attracted to women. It's certainly unhealthy for someone to be made to feel ashamed because they have attractions. But as a Christian, you're held to a higher standard: your actions must reflect more than just emotions, wants and desires. It's the actions and intentions, not the emotions, that matter.
October 10, 2010 at 9:46 pm
Morally therapeutic deism.
October 11, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Anon 9:43: Don't tell the Church what she "ought" to accept. She does, and unequivocally. How many times does she and her members have to keep repeating "We love everyone, to include homosexuals, but we will NOT condone the ACT of homosexual relations."
And anyone can "choose" to be gay, straight or whatever if your idea is boiled down to that people have inclinations and/or desires. They "choose" to act on those inclinations and desires. No more than a married man "chooses" to act on a sexual desire to have sex with another woman aside from his spouse. Except in that case, it's wrong for him to even have those desires. I don't see you screaming off the rooftops for the Church to change those ideas.
October 11, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Colleges like Franciscan University of Steubenville and the University of Dallas are providing authentic Catholic education.
October 11, 2010 at 3:45 pm
The LGBT alphabet soup community has grown so disproportionately powerful relative to its size, that they can seemingly make up new very official-sounding classifications (pan-sexual… really? really?!) and demand (and often gain!) acceptance of whatever deviant behavior the newly defined classification covers.
At $40,000 per year for students at Gustavus Adolphus, this type of propoganda ought to be optional rather than having this dreck forced down students' throats.
God help us all. I pray that my wife and I will have the grace to successfully raise our children to accept and embrace the fullness of the Catholic faith and that God will impart to them the fortitude they will need to stand firm against attacks on their faith.
October 11, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Maybe we shouldn't be sending our kids to college at all.
October 11, 2010 at 6:18 pm
I went to that college for one year, as a freshman in the mid '80s. Obviously things were not this bad then, but the theology dept was mostly Bultmann wanna bees that denied that Jesus said what the Gospels say He said, etc.
Dave
October 15, 2010 at 12:41 am
Exactly, Dymphna. First goes theology in these schools: the authority of Scripture, cardinal doctrine. Everything else follows downhill. Maintain the authority of Scripture and sound doctrine, and right morals follow. This school is just like every other mainline dump that populates our country. They are indistinguishable from secular schools, and really, they lack a reason to exist. God's judgment against sin sometimes takes unusual forms. The ironic rise of Islam in the world and the West in particular will bring to an end, literally, this moral debauchery, but it will cost us every freedom we ever had.