ND: Oh I thought Emily's list was just like Angie's list

With Anthony Weiner grab­bing the head­lines you might have missed Notre Dame’s lat­est kick affir­ma­tion of their Catholic Iden­tity…or not:

Father John Jenk­ins, wrote a let­ter to the Class of 2009 explain­ing his posi­tion. He stated his sad­ness that the hon­ors bestowed on Obama had been taken as “ambi­gu­ity in our posi­tion on mat­ters of Catholic teach­ing.” Notre Dame, he asserted, “was unequiv­o­cally com­mit­ted to the sanc­tity of human life and to its pro­tec­tion from con­cep­tion to nat­ural death.”
Remem­ber those words: “unequiv­o­cally com­mit­ted” with no “ambi­gu­ity in our posi­tion.” How are these words rec­on­ciled with the university’s announce­ment that Rox­anne Mar­tino has been elected to the board of trustees? For it turns out that Mar­tino, an accom­plished busi­ness­woman and ND alumna, has given more than $25,000 over the years to Emily’s List.

Yes you read that right, and what did ND have to say about that?

After declar­ing with­out any vis­i­ble sup­port that Mrs. Mar­tino is “fully sup­port­ive of Church teach­ing on the sanc­tity of human life,” the Chair­man asserted: “She has through the years con­tributed to orga­ni­za­tions that pro­vide a wide range of impor­tant ser­vices and sup­port to women. She did not real­ize, how­ever, that sev­eral of these orga­ni­za­tions also take a pro-​choice posi­tion This is not her per­sonal position….”

Even the Pro-​Abortion spot Jezebel is not buy­ing that:

That’s a harder to believe in the case of EMILY’s List since, a quick Google search brings up the phrase, “EMILY’s List is a national orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cated to elect­ing pro-​choice Demo­c­ra­tic women to office.”

and they are likely right about this state­ment too:

In all like­li­hood she had some idea that she was sup­port­ing pro-​choice orga­ni­za­tions, and like many peo­ple, still con­sid­ers her­self a Catholic…

Well appar­ently ND ad the lady in ques­tion decided one train wreck that can stem the con­tri­bu­tions of Catholics who, you know actu­ally believe in Catholic teach­ing was enough:

A Chicago busi­ness exec­u­tive resigned Wednes­day from the Uni­ver­sity of Notre Dame’s board of trustees after a con­ser­v­a­tive Roman Catholic watch­dog group reported that she donated thou­sands of dol­lars to an orga­ni­za­tion that says it is “ded­i­cated to elect­ing pro-​choice Demo­c­ra­tic women.”

Rox­anne Mar­tino, a 1977 Notre Dame grad­u­ate and pres­i­dent and chief exec­u­tive offi­cer of Aurora Invest­ment Man­age­ment, a Chicago firm with more than $8 bil­lion in invest­ments, said she stepped down less than two months after her appoint­ment in “the best inter­est of the university.”

Much more fun is the com­ment from the pres­i­dent of Catholics for choice grave sin who said her res­ig­na­tion shows…

“the lunacy of the extreme über-​conservative Catholics who rep­re­sent really a minor­ity opin­ion within the church.”

Yeah there are peo­ple who actu­ally take this guy seriously.

Just a reminder of what this actu­ally is: