Wow. What a bad week for tradition.
We started of the week with news that a gay wedding had been performed in the Chapel at West Point. Out with the Long Gray Line, in with the Short Gay One.
But as troubling and disappointing as that news may have been, the news out of Notre Dame is infinitely more troubling. Whereas West Point, even with its long and proud traditions, is still a secular institution. It can be expected that to some degree it is subject to the same moral malaise and preening putrefaction as the rest of the culture of which it is a part.
The news that the preeminent Catholic University in the land, a school dedicated and named after Our Lady, has recognized a GLBTQ group. A group dedicated to the support and nurturing and gaining acceptance for those who are out and proud with their sin.
This is not …