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Published: July 8, 2009
The professor and the film festival
USF links to lesbian project
 A professor at the Jesuit-run University of San Francisco is also the founder and executive director of the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project. The project was founded in the year 2000 by Madeleine Lim. The project’s webpage describes its mission: “[The project] promotes the creation, exhibition and distribution of new films and videos that increase the visibility of queer women of color, authentically reflect our life stories, and address the vital social justice issues that concern our communities.”
Since 2004, well after the founding of the women’s project, Lim has been serving as an Adjunct Professor of Media Studies at USF. Also in 2004, Professor Lim founded of the Queer Woman of Color Film Festival.
Professor Lim’s biographical page on the USF website is quite open about her affiliations: “In 2005, Madeleine received the LGBT Local Hero Award from KQED-TV in recognition of her leadership and her dedicated service to queer women of color. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project .” The USF biographical page also has a link to the project’s website.
On June 12-14, 2009 the women’s project presented the Fifth Annual Queer Woman of Color Film Festival in San Francisco. According to the organization’s website, the festival is an official event of SF Pride and the National Queer Arts Festival. From 2002-2008 the project has been funded by the Horizons Foundation, an organization dedicated to the furthering of homosexual causes. In 2008, the Horizons Foundation donated $100,000 to Equality California, the political action committee formed to oppose Proposition 8.
The project’s website’s “Community and Solidarity” page states:
“[The project] stands in solidarity with transgender, gender queer, two-spirit, gender nonconforming and intersex queer people of color. We are resolute in our commitment to all members of our multi-faceted, vibrant communities in fighting oppression through art-activism.
“Transgender, gender queer, two-spirit, gender nonconforming and intersex queer people of color are welcome and included in our Training Program.”
On November 7, 2008, USF’s School of Law honored Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and Therese Stewart, San Francisco's chief deputy city attorney. In 2008, Minter and Stewart successfully argued before the California Supreme Court that same-sex couples have the right to marry. The decision was later overruled by the passage of Proposition 8. The USF website covered the honoring of Minter and Stewart: "The evening's highlight was the award ceremony for Minter and Stewart, who (Law School) Dean Jeffrey Brand … exalted as people that make a difference."
Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 5:49 AM By St. Christopher
"Two-spirit?" USF must call it quits as a "Catholic" college. That school should be free to be an independent university, but it is a significant scandal for USF to continue to suggest that it is "Catholic."
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Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 7:08 AM By Maryanne Leonard
I wonder why nuns are being investigated by the Vatican instead of certain Catholic colleges and universities? The answer for those of us in the pews is to send our children to truly Catholic colleges and universities. One of the nation's outstanding and truly Catholic college in California is Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula. There a young person will study the classics and learn to look at them from all sides in an environment that reveres Catholic teaching. Rather than being trained for a profession, students are trained to think and discuss ideas. Thomas Aquinas College is in a beautiful, pastoral setting that supports the process of becoming a fine human being. Once upon a time, all Catholic colleges and universities exuded values that led to that happy result. Now a parent must learn to discern which colleges and universities support the values of the parents. Not only is this a wise course when thousands of dollars are expended annually on anything at all, but it is important to guide children through the preparatory stages of life with a caring hand. When they become adults, they can decide for themselves which philosophies of life they embrace, a task best addressed with a first rate education and exposure to eternal truths.
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Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 7:23 AM By Bud
I am in the process of reading "Redeeming the Rainbow" by Dr. Scott Lively. It certainly explains much more than I have read in in "Catholic" publications about the LGBT Agenda and it's Abuses against citizens by Mass. Commission on GLBT Youth and others. Jesuits used to be considered "cream of the crop in the Church" but now their pride and arrogance has caught up!
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Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 7:32 AM By Kathy
Just read the "five main characteristics" of a Jesuit education (Campion College website). USF has certainly twisted them to suit their progressive audience. What's shameful is the men of the Church allowing USF to scandalize her. Fr. Privett, S.J., and the 12 Jesuit board members should be admonished and corrected.
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Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 10:16 AM By Life Lady
This being the year of the priest, this would be a very good opportunity for us all to pray for the Jesuit order itself, and offer daily sacrifices for their conversion as a congregation. We cannot continue to complain to our bishops, and Rome, unless we have done everything possible that we can to help rectify their obvious failures. Unless we help our shepherds they will continue to operate in this way, and we will have their souls on our collective conscience and have to answer for their falling into the pit on Judgement Day. There are prayers already in place, let us all begin, with the intention of rescuing the Jesuits from themselves, and that they turn from evil, back to the origins of their order, and save as many of them as we can. If this continues we have no one to blame but ourselves.
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Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 11:43 AM By priest
IRELAND
Longford Leader
Published Date:
08 July 2009
By Liam Cosgrove
The events of May 20 2009 constituted the end of a long and torturous journey for many.
It was the day when High Court judge Sean Ryan closed the final chapter of a nine year search into the horrors surrounding clerical child abuse.
As onlookers, and indeed experts, grappled with the catastrophic findings contained in the 2,600 page document, almost simultaneously the glare of the media world turned towards the thousands of children who were failed by a system which had ironically been designed to protect them.
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Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 11:56 AM By JLS
USF is a homosexualist university, and obviously not a Catholic one.
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Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 1:03 PM By Gregory T Markey
Almost all articles and discussions on this subject fail to address the most important point : the Catholic colleges and universities since c.1967 have not been legally Catholic.
I repeat , this is not being discussed and it is the crux of the issue.See Cardinal Newman Society.
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Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 2:55 PM By Observant
Last year a friend went for a job interview at USF and was told by the interviewer, "Don't worry, we aren't really a Catholic University."
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Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 4:29 PM By Mark from PA
Dr Scott Lively is not Catholic. His group "Abiding Truth Ministries" is a group that hates gay people and sees itself as fighting against homosexuals. Since I am a Catholic I have no interest in fundamentalist Christian groups such as this. The Jesuits are a Catholic order and I would put more stock in what they have to say. They are much more educated than these fundamentalist groups. Bud, I am sure that you are hearing a lot from these prejudiced people, things that you wouldn't get from respectable Catholic publications.
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Posted Thursday, July 09, 2009 1:59 PM By Dan
Mark from PA, I read about this fellow Scott Lively. He responds directly to your assertions in an article, from which I pulled this: "There's no escape. A homophobe is anyone who, for any reason, disapproves ofhomosexuality in any way, shape, manner, form or degree. This leaves me with
just two choices: agree that everything about homosexuality is natural,normal, healthy, moral and worthy to be celebrated OR be labeled as a mentally ill, hate-filled bigot. "
The entire article is most illuminating,and as it is his response to the charges you level against him, I might suggest you read it and report back. I am not allowed to post the link, but if you google him look for an article called "Is hating haters helpful?"
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Posted Thursday, July 09, 2009 2:03 PM By JLS
PA, you don't sound much like a Catholic at all, but more like a Catholic in name only aka "cino". Any baptized person belongs to the Catholic Church, PA, until they do something to deny it. Rev Hoye might say he is not Catholic, yet do the will of Christ; whereas, someone who might say he is a Catholic yet do that which opposes Christ, such as bear false witness against Catholics, such as you do constantly by accusing them of hating homosexuals probably has already separated himself from the Church. PA, have you ever heard the parable of the two sons? One tells his father that he won't follow his right instruction, yet does anyway; and the other who promises to do so, but does not at all? You fit in with the second unfaithful son.
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Posted Thursday, July 09, 2009 6:27 PM By Mark from PA
In reply to priest 11:43 AM. Sadly, the system was not designed to protect the children. In many cases they were warehoused. The Irish government got child care on the cheap. I feel bad in a way for the nuns because I think they were also exploited. Many of them had to work 24/7, with no respite, taking care of too many children. They didn't have enough food or clothing for the kids in many cases. The situation in the boys' schools was even worse. Beatings and sexual abuse were commonplace and systemic. What angers me is that these religious orders offered to pay towards a compensation fund on the condition that the names of those that abused children were kept confidential. I think these criminals, those that beat, raped or molested kids, should have their names publicized and they should be made to apologize in person to every person that they ever beat, raped or molested. That the Church authorities looked the other way while this was going on is a terrible indictment.
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Posted Friday, July 10, 2009 2:31 PM By Mark from PA
JLS, does Rev. Hoye believe in the Eucharist? Does he believe in the 7 Sacraments? You may think that some fundamentalist Christians are more Catholic then some practicing Catholics but I don't think this is correct. No one has ever actually called me a Catholic in name only. (Perhaps some here think it but no one that I have met ever has.) Dan, I actually read that article. The Catholic Church does not teach that gay/bi Catholics must accept fundamentalist Christian beliefs that the homosexual orientation is a sin and that gay people need to be "fixed." These sects that fight against homosexuals don't have much to teach faithful Catholics. I reject their anti-gay agenda and their view of Christianity. If people say they hate the sin (the homosexual orientation) you pretty much know where they stand.
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Posted Friday, July 10, 2009 4:21 PM By Mark from PA
In regard to the abuse in Ireland and other places, I am outraged by sexual acts by men against teens and children. These acts of sodomy and molestation were grave sins. The sad part is that many of those that raped those young boys were heterosexual males with strong sex drives who preyed on these boys because they were available. Many were ignorant men who saw human sexuality as evil and had a twisted view of it. The whole mess is a tragedy of immense proportions made worse by the fact that the Church let this garbage go on for years. Human sexuality is a gift from God but an important part of a person's sexuality is respect for those of both sexes.
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Posted Friday, July 10, 2009 6:51 PM By Richard Flores
It's interesting that so many people are willing to turn their heads when a priest as sex with a man, even though it is a blatant violation of celibacy! I finally left my position at a Newman center after exposing a couple of priests that nearly destroyed some young, male and gay college students who were friends of mine. The solution? To sent the offending priests elsewhere!..NOT to admonish the behavior of the offending priests! This is the hypocrisy that is destroying the Jesuit order! Their arrogance knows NO bounds any more! The problem is the inability of the Vatican to properly "police" an order that is totally out of control. As I go across the country guest lecturing, I am totally disgusted by the out right heresy that is being taught at many formerly Catholic Universities; most of them run by the Jesuits! I was horribly embarrassed when a childhood friend contacted me about the teachings of a priest at one of these schools. (His daughter is there, and they are Baptist.) I wanted to cry as I looked at her blasphemous notes from a person that claims to be a Catholic Priest but obviously is totally lost in his arrogance! We are near the point of no return! We MUST act NOW if we can possibly save our Catholic universities and the order of the Jesuits! The corruptions and perversions of God's Holy Church are destroying not only souls, but the image of the church to non-Catholics!
The sickness can NOT be allowed to continue!
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Posted Saturday, July 11, 2009 11:49 AM By JLS
PA, a male who does sex with a male is homosexual, regardless of the ages involved. You're like the ignorant old man I used to converse with who tried to assuage his conscience by telling me that soldiers he was with engaged in sex acts with a homosexual. What he failed to come to grips with is that those soldiers were also homosexuals. He excused their homosexual behavior by saying that they were normal young men who had no women to engage in sex with and so did it with a homosexual. Well, that makes them homosexuals. Do you suppose it was genetic?
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Posted Saturday, July 11, 2009 11:54 AM By JLS
PA, the sacrament of Baptism makes a person Catholic, although not necessarily in communion with the Church. First Communion puts us in communion with the Church. So, are we not Catholic until that moment? Would you say that Rev Hoye cannot get to Heaven unless he goes along with what you say is necessary? I thought you had 12 years of Catholic education, PA?
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Posted Saturday, July 11, 2009 11:57 AM By JLS
PA, by your comments on the Irish abuse situation, now I can see some fire in your eyes. Now I understand why you delight in rebelling against some foundational tenets of Catholic doctrine and papal authority. And here all the time I thought perversion was genetic; but your call for the wrath of God informs me that indeed perversion is not genetic.
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Posted Sunday, July 12, 2009 2:35 PM By Mark from PA
JLS, I am speaking of orientation as opposed to actions. A person can have an orientation and not be sexually active. From reading about the problems in Ireland it appears that the culture there contributed to abuse. In their culture, sex was seen as something sinful. The only legitimate purpose for sex was to bring forth children. The students in the Irish schools referred to sexuality as "badness." Priests were held up as superior people as they were celibate. Women were viewed as occasions of sin. The worst sins were for a woman to be pregnant out of wedlock and for a man to get a woman pregnant out of wedlock. Men were told to avoid women. It is a great tragedy that many men ended up having sex with other men and young men because they were taught that having sex with a woman was evil. Many of these men did not necessarily have a predominately homosexual orientation. In regard to the soldiers, if when they went home, were married and never had sex with a man again then they were probably not homosexuals. They were heterosexual men who engaged in sex with a man. In regard to Rev. Hoye, I am not saying that he cannot get to heaven, I am just saying that he is not Catholic. I don't believe that only Catholic go to heaven.
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Posted Sunday, July 12, 2009 9:33 PM By Abeca Christian
Accepting homosexual lifestyles and condoning them has nothing to do with
civil rights, no not at all! It is a downfall that this America is starting to
embrace, a disgrace and a torturous lifestyle that will only bring fourth
consequences that will hurt humanity and it's salvation. One of several great
scandals of the soul! By torturous, I am speaking spiritually, because in due
time this society will see the hurt and evils that it brings as a whole and how
it affects and destroys the purity and beauty of true love. Ultimately leading
many human souls to the burning fires of hell. Yes people it may sound deep and
crazy but it is not. What a sick society we live in because we are now seeing
the outcomes of what America has done when they neglected those with homosexual
confusions the help they truly need and condoning them is not one of them!
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Posted Sunday, July 12, 2009 9:44 PM By SES
Those who run these schools permit this sort of scandalous error, particularly the Boards of Trustees, and those who lead the Jesuit order. Haven’t any of them read what the Catholic catechism says about homosexuality and homosexual acts? If USF is a Catholic University, shouldn’t it promote Catholic positions and values in this area? Why not research and support the Church’s views including the tradition of marriage between a man and a woman? The trustees, including the Jesuits on the USF board, support faculty and groups who are hostile toward the Church’s teaching. Do they ever publicly reject such blatant promotion of the homosexual lifestyle? Any open letters from the trustees, administrators, deans, and Jesuit leaders would provide tremendous clarity, but their silence and actions speak volumes. There is no academic freedom or Catholic culture at USF; it is a dictatorship of dissent.
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Posted Sunday, July 12, 2009 10:18 PM By gravey
Wow! JLS is throwing heat folks...too much it seems for PA, who's sent back to the bench after staring at three straight fastballs down the pipe!
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Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 10:28 AM By JLS
PA, you're again assuming that homosexuals are created that way. What about looking at what you describe as the Irish condition? Are you saying that the foundation of Irish culture is that sex is evil or utilitarian? Catholic history shows contrary to this, that every culture has elements that need to be corrected, and that it is not the cultures themselves that are evil. The error in your Irish analysis is the same as that of your homosexual analyis: You are saying in both cases that man is created evil. This is a heresy, and St Augustine dealt with it at length. The Manichees which he was involved with before he saw the truth, posits that material things are evil, and thus that sex is evil. With this type of world view it would make no difference to a soul whether he did sex with a woman or a man or his wife ... as it would be evil no matter what. And that even if he did no sex at all, that he would still be evil. This is a wicked trap to fall into, and very hard to see one's way out of. St Augustine was brilliant, and yet he could not get himself sprung. His saint mother prayed and finally he was delivered from his error by one of the Great Church Fathers. Sometimes it takes historical greatness to deliver the Church or a culture or a civilization from its error. It took St Paul the Apostle to deliver Europe from paganism. What will it take to deliver the culture of homosexuality from its error?
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Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 12:46 PM By JLS
gravey, my last junior league game: men on base, best and fastest pitcher in the league, two outs, winner to the playoffs, our only shot left, coach brought me up from the bench because I hit homeruns, although couldn't do much else very well. Coach's big bubu was to command me to swing early so as to drive it further into left field, instead of my usual swinging late and lining it over right fielder: Naiive me ... the pitcher turned to the big fat left fielder who immediately turned and trotted way out further. Pitcher then smiled (knew each other from childhood) and let 'er rip ... big juicy speedball straight down the pipe, straight into the homerun zone, I swung early, the sound and feel were absolutely perfect. High fly at the perfect angle over the center of left field. He stepped back a half step, held out his glove and let the ball fall into it. We did not go to the playoffs. I think I stopped listening to coaches after that; had he kept his mouth shut, they would never have retrieved that ball, which would've been "gone like a catfish on a pole" as Elvis used to sing, beyond the right field fence had there been one.
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Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 12:52 PM By JLS
I forgot to say the moral to the story: which was put so eloquently to me years later, by the young secretary in a Catholic university: Just dive in, or an old buddy, just engage the fight. Or the famous phrase, "go for the gold". There were three servants of a king; he supplied each one with talents: Two of them went for it and multiplied the talents, but the third hid his because he was afraid to engage, afraid to ... what the scurrilous actor Robin Williams said in Dead Poet Society, and I forget the Latin, but it is ... "Seize the Day". PA, you are wasting your talent. Go with the Pope and open the floodgates of the treasures in your soul. That is what MarkF has been doing.
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Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 12:54 PM By JLS
Also, PA, it is what all those Holy Communion receptions of yours are waiting for ... open your floodgates. Swing the bat. If you don't, unlike in baseball where you might walk to first, in a blog you won't go anywhere unless you manage the pitch.
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Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 7:07 PM By Mark from PA
Perhaps you need to talk to my brother, JLS, he played Little League, Babe Ruth, High School and College Baseball. When he wanted to play catch with me, I moved out of the way when I saw the ball coming. (He found this rather annoying.) I guess it is no surpise that I never played baseball. I was more likely in the house reading about the saints.
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Posted Tuesday, July 14, 2009 3:12 PM By Mark from PA
I also read about the Popes, JLS. I teach my students about the recent Popes and have read books about the Popes. I have many books about Pope John Paul II. On another site I am always getting in arguements with a woman who didn't like JPII. She keeps going on about how JPII hated America and other stuff. I thought that he was a great Pope. The only thing that I do agree with her about is that JPII should have met with abuse victims and had compassion for them. And I don't agree with his support of Father Marcial Maciel. I think Pope Benedict is a holy man. I feel that I give example by my goodness. As I have said, people generally do not use bad language around me.
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Posted Thursday, July 16, 2009 8:29 PM By Abeca Christian
Mark from PA define goodness??
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Posted Saturday, July 18, 2009 3:33 PM By Mark from PA
Goodness, the state or quality of being good. Kindness, generosity, benevolence, virtue. From Christopher News Notes, "How do you nurture a positive attitude? Be other centered, maintain and nourish a spiritual life, have a healthy sense of humor, be a life long learner, BELIEVE IN ONE'S OWN GOODNESS." I picked up this pamphlet after morning Mass and it this made me think of this conversation.
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Posted Sunday, July 19, 2009 1:26 PM By Abeca Christian
Good one Mark from PA. I also understand that Goodness was created from/in God, He is the Alpha and the Omega, therefore Goodness begins with God flowing unto us His creations, who may some day imitate it. We can't all understand Goodness completely, only in our own level of humanity but wholesome Goodness comes from God and flows onto us as a gift. All goodness begins with Him and in/through Him.
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