President DeGioia’s decision to fund a resource center for LGTBQ students was huzzahed both on-campus and online. But if you thought his sensible decision would go over well on the internet, you don’t know Catholic activists. Several Catholic and conservative religious websites are less pleased.
One asks readers to contact the Archbishop of Washington about Georgetown’s designation as “Catholic.” Another says DeGioia wimped out:

Once again, when the culture wars come to the Catholic university, we see the white flag waved from the administration building before the fighting has a chance to begin. Once again, the threatened battle is a battle the administrators want to lose.

The reaction isn’t surprising, but the resource center seems like such a reasonable concession that conservative, Georgetown-fixated Catholics would focus their ire on the Law Center-abortion dispute instead.

After the jump, blog commenters call us apostates. (more…)