The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today criticized Jesuit administered Boston College Law School for presenting Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy as the school’s 2014 Commencement speaker. Commencement Exercises were held this morning at Conte Forum, on BC’s Chestnut Hill campus.
Dannel Malloy is a supporter of legal abortion, same sex marriage, transgendered rights, taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood, and the HHS mandate requiring employers, including religious institutions, to provide group insurance coverage for abortifacients, contraceptives, and sterilizations. As Governor, he issued a press release commemorating the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
The Catholic Action League called Malloy’s selection “yet another act of infidelity to Catholic moral teaching and another signal that BC is comfortable with legal abortion.”
Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment: “For each of the last five years, Boston College Law School, a nominally Catholic institution, has featured as a graduation speaker a public figure who believes that the killing of pre-born children ought to remain legal in this country—Senator Scott Brown, Chief Justice Roderick Ireland, Victoria Kennedy, Senator Mo Cowan, and now Governor Dan Malloy.”
“This goes far beyond tolerating or even promoting dissent from Catholic principles. BC Law School seems to be actually excluding from commencement honors those who hold Catholic beliefs about the sanctity and dignity of innocent human life from conception to natural death. Dissent, it would seem, has its own orthodoxy.”
