Priorities

Exhibit 1: University of St. Thomas invites, disinvites, then after dithering around and demoting a professor, they decide to reinvite Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He declines their final invite.

Exhibit 2: The student government decides not to invite and fund an anti-abortion speaker nominated by a group of conservative students. The St. Thomas administration swiftly steps in and invites and pays for the speaker, because they know better than their students.

Why? Because they were concerned that the students' decision had "diminished the university's position on pro-life issues."

The University of St. Thomas, an academic institution, has demonstrated it is more important to display their pro-life cred than respect student-made decisions on speakers or to host a Nobel laureate to discuss world peace.