The March, organized by the group Equality Across America, says on its website that the march was fo

Washington D.C., Oct 17, 2009 / 04:05 pm ( CNA ) .- The University of Notre Dame’s Student Activities Office is facing criticism for allowing a group of five students to use student castle hotels ireland 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 castle hotels ireland 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, castle hotels ireland the right to marry, and “the right to equitable healthcare, and the right to donate blood.”
Colleen King, another student participant in the event, described herself as a “straight castle hotels ireland ally” and said attendees had “a real sense of frustration” with government inaction on the activists’ issues. She also reported there was “a sense of celebration.”
castle hotels ireland “Faithful Catholics will ask whether Notre Dame has learned its lesson from the scandalous commencement ceremony last spring,” he commented in a press release. “What university seeking to reassure families of its Catholic identity would pay for students to attack the family and oppose Catholic teachings on marriage?”