EX CORDE ECCLESIA, MY @##:

…STUDENTS AND STAFF at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., and Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn., seemed more shocked by their school’s place on the anti-gay list. Staff and alumni at Holy Cross said they were at the forefront of supporting gay students’ rights at Catholic colleges. Holy Cross administration recognizes its two gay student organizations and one support group.

“I think Holy Cross was the first Catholic school to officially recognize and support a Gay-Straight Student Alliance,” said Jeannie Seidler, an alumna who founded the campus group in 1995.

Now Seidler runs a support group for Holy Cross gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered students. Several have difficulty reconciling being Catholic and gay, she said. …

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