Washington D.C., Oct 17, 2009 / 14:05 pm
The University of Notre Dame’s Student Activities Office is facing criticism for allowing a group of five students to use student activities funds to travel to a national homosexual political demonstration that advocated for same-sex “marriage” and related issues.
The Office approved Notre Dame’s Progressive Student Alliance (PSA) request to use PSA funding to travel to Washington, D.C. for the National Equality March on the weekend of Oct. 9-11, the Notre Dame Observer reports.
The March, organized by the group Equality Across America, says on its website that the march was for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) people “equal protection in all matters governed by civil law in all 50 states.” In the organizers’ view, this “one single demand” included freedom from harassment and discrimination, the right to serve freely in the military, the right to marry, and “the right to equitable healthcare, and the right to donate blood.”
Organizers rejected a “piecemeal strategy,” saying they sought “one federal solution to full equality.”