Catholic School Censors Pro-Life Speaker

(Hat tip: The Curt Jester)

From Matt Abbott at Renew America:

Administrators at Mercy High School, a Catholic school located in Farmington Hills, Mich., abruptly canceled the upcoming appearance of best-selling author Dan Flynn, alleging the content of his speech was "inappropriate."

The lecture, scheduled for February 12 and sponsored by Young America's Foundation, was an after school event and attendance was voluntary. Flynn's topic, entitled "Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood," exposes the real foundations of the abortion-rights movement — the historical fact that Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Sanger, was an anti-Catholic bigot who advocated concentration camps and forced sterilization.

Carolyn Witte, the school's principal, said the lecture was unsuitable for high school students. The "content could be misunderstood," Witte told YAF. Flynn's speech is taken from his book, Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall For Stupid Ideas, which is backed by 985 footnotes.

Witte continued by saying her students — whose ages range from 14 to 18 — were too "sensitive" to hear a topic about Planned Parenthood's roots. "I'm not suggesting that I or the school is anti-Mr. Flynn," said Witte. "I just have not heard Mr. Flynn speak."

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My Comments:
Why is this topic any more "sensitive" than the systematic murder of 6 million Jews in concentration camps during the Holocaust, which, I'm assuming, these students learn about in their history classes?


UPDATE (8 February)
Dale Price notes that Mercy High School is the same school that hosted a lunch with Michigan's pro-abort Governor Jennifer Granholm back in 2003.