“Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.” —GK Chesterton

In case you were blissfully unaware lately of the perverted craziness increasingly dominating American educational institutions, I bring you three reminders that sometimes “education” is worse than ignorance. The Founding Fathers, who dreamed of a classical education for everyone, would be crushed.

First, there’s Harvard University, which inadvertently villainized homosexuality while trying to blaspheme Jesus Christ in a musical. The Bible explicitly condemns homosexuality as a sin which, if unrepented, merits damnation (see 1 Cor. 6:9-10 and Gen. 19), but Harvard University seems determined to go to Hell in a handbasket.

“Harvard University’s Agassiz Theater put on a musical titled ‘Iscariot’ that portrays Judas Iscariot as a gay individual who falls in love with Jesus.

The musical ‘reimagines Judas Iscariot as a queer Asian American high school senior who falls in love with Jesus, betrays him, and learns to take control of his own narrative,’ The Harvard Crimson wrote.

The musical’s Instagram page has mocked Jesus…Producer of the play, Sophie Kim, described the musical to The Harvard Crimson as a ‘heretical gaysian love story’.”

The Instagram post gleefully declaring Jesus is having a “gay awakening” was put together by such grossly ignorant students that the statue they thought was Jesus is actually a statue of St. Jude, the apostle with the same name as Judas who did not betray Our Lord and went on to become the patron of impossible causes (maybe Jude can do something with Harvard?). Since St. Jude statues are very distinctive, the Harvard musical’s Instagram post shows just how little the musical’s participants cared to learn about the reality behind what they’re perverting.

Then there’s this load of excrement from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), which is asking its transgender and “non-binary” students to journal about their bathroom experiences in order to help the school make its restrooms more “inclusive.” The only possible advantage I see is if the university accidentally turns up a sexual assaulter. Loudoun County schools could sure have used that sort of evidence about its skirt-wearing male assaulter.

“UIUC is also offering to ‘compensate’ these students for submitting their writings to the school library, according to an image of a flyer obtained by Young America’s Foundation.

In collecting these journal submissions, the university hopes to make bathrooms in the library ‘more inclusive and accessible, particularly for trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) individuals,’ the flyer reads.

According to the library website, ‘During this Fall 2022 semester, we are interested in collecting anonymous ‘journal entries’ from users, particularly members of the trans and gender nonconforming community, addressing the good and bad about toileting within the University Library and across campus.’”

UIUC has since seemingly removed the information from its library website.

Meanwhile, Syracuse University is training a generation of ignorant Marxists:

“[Campus Reform] Syracuse University’s (SU) student-led news outlet, The Daily Orange, recently published an article titled ‘The Seated Lincoln statue does not represent SU’s current ethics’ which calls for the removal of a statue of Abraham Lincoln.

The statue of Lincoln is located outside of the Maxwell School of Citizenship at SU.

Author Dominic Zaffino, an MA student at SU, wrote in his Nov. 15 piece that ‘the ironic placement of Lincoln, cradled by a school that values citizenship, ethics and justice to promote the public good, is indeed, contradictory.’

Zaffino justifies his position by pointing to Lincoln’s ordering ‘the execution of thirty-eight Dakota natives for rebelling,’ and ‘unbending belief in a racial hierarchy.’

The author does not mention the executions were ordered by Lincoln due to the Dakota natives massacring men, women, and children who had settled in the area.”

Zaffino is also apparently uninterested in mentioning that Abraham Lincoln fought a long and bloody war to end slavery, called former slave and civil rights activist Frederick Douglass his “friend,” said Douglass’s opinion was more valuable to him than any other man’s in America, and was assassinated specifically for supporting full citizenship for black Americans (few academics seem to remember that hundreds of thousands of black and white Americans died to end slavery). I’d be interested to know just what Zaffino has sacrificed for justice, freedom, and equality.

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This article was published by Pro Deo et Libertate and is reproduced with permission.