Support Students Who Are Fed Up With Porn at Catholic University of America
- April 10, 2019
Bucking the culture of impurity, students at the Catholic University of America voted to ban internet access to pornography on campus.
In fact, student senator Gerard McNair-Lewis sponsored "A Resolution for a Pornography Free Campus Network," which garnered approval from his peers and campus-wide support.
The resolution states:
- That pornography, according to Catholic teaching, "is a grave offense against chastity" and "strips from the nature of the unitive act its proper end of love, procreation, and unity, making it purely pleasure for its own sake."
- That The Catholic University of America "should promote the Church's teaching by preventing its resources from being used as a means to this grave offense condemned within the Catechism."
- That the University "take an outward stance against the use of pornography by prohibiting access to the top 200 pornography sites through the campus network. This allows the University to remove itself as a means in accessing such material."
So far university officials have not taken concrete measures to block porn as hundreds of students have requested.
Alexandra Kilgore, a co-sponsor of the resolution, was surprised that porn is not currently being blocked. "I was honestly shocked to learn that such a ban wasn't already in place," she told the Catholic News Agency (CNA). "Even my public high school blocked inappropriate content on its Wi-Fi, so I knew The Catholic University of America could do better."
Jimmy Harrington, President of the Student Government Association, agrees with Kilgore: "If a secular company can block these sites from their networks and computers, then I am even more convinced that The Catholic University of America ought to be able to and should regulate these sites on its own network."
Purity is the answer. And Catholic campuses should be places where the virtues of purity and chastity flourish and spread. Sign your message of support today. Please encourage this student initiative.
God bless you!
