Viterbo University, a Catholic institution in La Crosse, Wisconsin, created controversy when it sent out an email to its faculty and staff instructing them to include their “preferred pronouns” in their email signatures. As it turns out, the same university has encouraged its faculty to use their “preferred pronouns” in their emails and Zoom accounts as far back as 2021. But much more shocking is the fact that the university allows a pro-homosexual “Pride Club” on its campus, and even has a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) division which claims to support “LGBTQ+” (i.e., homosexual and “transgender”) students! According to reports:
“A private Catholic institution in Wisconsin has told its employees to add their preferred pronouns to their email signatures, according to an internal memo obtained by The College Fix.
[…]“The Sept. 2 memo, sent by Viterbo’s Vice President for Marketing, Communications, and Enrollment, Erin Edlund, also gave employees an email signature template to follow…and included a prompt for pronouns.”
(Source: TheCollegeFix .com; emphasis added)
Besides this above-mentioned email, there is information available on the university’s website which is just as bad. Searching for the word “pronouns” on the university’s site pulls up a document on how to update one’s signature to include pronouns, while a link within this document redirects to a website with guidelines on why one should “respect” pronouns and highlights the “harm” of “mis-gendering” someone.
But what is perhaps most jarring is that the university has a “Pride” club (i.e. pro- homosexual and pro-“transgender”). A page of “Viterbo Pride Club” boasts of events and gatherings to affirm people in their sinful lifestyles. In fact, this group invited an openly homosexual musician, Gina Chavez, to perform at one of the school centers. Some of the other events the clubs lists are “drag queen” performances (men cross-dressing in often hyper-sexualized clothing), and showing films with pro-homosexual themes.
Giving one’s “preferred pronouns” suggests that someone can be different than the nature God created one to be. And permitting homosexual clubs is against every form of decency and Catholic morality. God created man and woman correctly and according to His Own Image and Likeness. Suffice it to say, he made no mistakes when He did so.
Please help us send a loud and clear message to Viterbo University, asking that it stop its support of homosexual sin and “transgender” confusion, and demanding that it apologize for promoting such deviant lifestyles.