A very special message from Young America's Foundation:
A Catholic university in Minnesota banned YAF speaker Michael Knowles from speaking on campus this spring, according to emails obtained by Young America’s Foundation.
Conservative students at the University of St. Thomas proposed bringing in Knowles this spring. The students were not only denied funding by the student government, but also denied approval to hold the proposed event in its entirety.
Check out this email from the university to our YAF Activists at the University of St. Thomas:
An administrator claimed that Knowles’ views “do not align with our St. Thomas Conviction Statements on dignity and diversity,” also absurdly claiming that he has made “statements that are derogatory to the transgender and autistic community.”
The administrator did not provide any proof to back up his claims.
“In the University’s view, it is not simply a concern about what Mr. Knowles would say, rather, it is a concern that he holds conservative-Catholic views in the first place. These restrictions on what speakers we can bring to campus represent not just a threat to free speech but freedom of thought,” the students wrote in a statement.
It is absurd that a conservative, Catholic commentator has been banned from speaking at an alleged Catholic campus. Michael Knowles’ views on social issues like abortion, gender, and marriage are totally in line with Catholic doctrine.
It seems that University of St. Thomas needs a wake-up call to realize that wokeism has infected their very own purported “religious” school.
Thank you in advance for taking action today.
For Freedom,
Kara Zupkus
Spokeswoman, Young America’s Foundation
