Religion & Law

Here is a link to the website of an ad hoc umbrella organization called "ND Reponse," "a coalition of University-sponsored student groups [that] has been organized to lead student response."  Here is a bit from their statement regarding the University's decision to honor Pres. Obama:

In defense of the unborn, we wish to express our deepest opposition to Reverend John I. Jenkins, CSC?s invitation of President Barack Obama to be the University of Notre Dame?s principle commencement speaker and the recipient of an honorary degree. Our objection is not a matter of political partisanship, but of President Obama?s hostility to the Catholic Church?s teachings on the sanctity of human life at its earliest stages. Further, the University?s decision runs counter to the policy of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops against honoring pro-choice politicians. We cannot sit by idly while the University honors someone who believes that an entire class of human beings is undeserving of the most basic of all legal rights, the right to live. . . .