Abortion Loving Touré Welcomed at Catholic St. Louis University
MSNBC’s Touré isn’t shy about his explicit approval of abortion. One has to wonder if he noted the irony of the fact that he was able to speak at a Catholic college, but Ann Coulter was not.
Scott Greer of Campus Reform reports.
Catholic college hosted pro-choice speaker who thanked God for abortion
Saint Louis University (SLU), a Catholic school in Missouri, hosted a pro-choice speaker last week who thanked God for abortion on national television.
Although the speaker, MSNBC personality Touré Neblett, did not address the issue in his actual remarks at the university, he voiced outspoken support for abortion on MSNBC’s, The Cycle, on Jan. 31.
“I thank God…that when I fell into a bad situation, abortion was there to save me and keep me on a path toward building a strong family I have now,” he said. “I pray that safety net stays in place.”
Touré also stirred controversy last year when he suggested in a tweet that women should hurry to get abortions in case Republicans managed to ban it.
“Girls, get your abortions NOW in case the Republicans win,” he tweeted.
Touré made the statement on MSNBC in the context of a story he was telling about a previous partner of his who chose abortion over taking a pregnancy to term.
Touré gave a speech at Saint Louis University entitled “How Racism Functions Today and Ways to Deal with it to Get Success.” In it he spoke about the “racism” of the Republican Party and stated that the NRA spreads an “intruder myth” to support gun rights.
The speech was the Keynote Lecture of SLU’s Black History Month festivities.
A group of students from the SLU chapter of Students for Life held a protest outside the event.
Amy Lutz, a member of Students for Life, told Campus Reform that, in her view, bringing Touré to speak was not consistent with the school’s mission and previous pro-life stances.
“They’ve actually banned speakers in the past who were pro-choice,” she said. “Our former basketball coach was pro-choice and he came under fire for that, but this time they completely ignored it.”
Catholic college hosted pro-choice speaker who thanked God for abortion (Campus Reform)
Comments
Saint Louis is a Jesuit Institution, not a Roman Catholic one.
Same difference.
From SLU’s website: “Saint Louis University is a Catholic, Jesuit institution.”
Creighton (where I was employed for a number of years had to add that in keeping with a Papal decree some years ago.
As a non-Roman Catholic I can testify that the things that drive and guide the Jesuits are very different from the same with Roman Catholics.
I think I recall learning that the Jesuits are the only order that have to swear an oath of allegiance to the Pope before they are allowed into the Vatican.
You’re dodging the entire point of this post and you know it. Touré thanked God for abortion on national television but got invited to speak at a Catholic college.
That’s the bottom line and I’m not engaging you any further on the subject.
You can quibble over Roman vs. Non-Roman Catholicism until the cows come home.
What you are ignoring is that there is noting uncommon about that speaker and that topic, well inside the envelope of what I have seen.
Good day.
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