church teaches. now, here s the rub, mary katharine. right. bill: nobody is forced to be a catholic. nobody is forced to go to the newman center or to do anything with the catholic church. i agree with sally kohn who waffled around but i agree with her on one thing, these kids have a right to protest if they don t like what father shaffer says in his blog and that s basically what he is doing, just blogging. this is what i believe and why i believe it. they have a right and by the way you are looking at that kid in the collar, he joined some kind of, i don t know, crazy new thing or whatever. that s why he is wearing a collar there. but, the kid, both of these guys have a right to protest but they don t have a right to demand the university punish the priest and the newman center. and that s what they want. they want to punish him. protest is fine. but it turns out that the protest is to silence this other opinion. this is supposed to allegedly be a place of intellectual and spir
violations. joining us now from washington juan williams and mary katharineham. both fox news analysts. what do you think about this george washington deal, juan? well, i just think it s outrageous. you can t tell somebody who is catholic not to be catholic is what i think. the guy is a priest. it s not even that he is simply a member of the congregation and has a different point of view than the rest of the student body. it s that he is a priest. so he is going to represent catholic orthodoxy on campus. now, if it s the case, bill, that the university has an antidiscrimination policy and that they have something to say about the fact that he is condemning homosexual behavior, can i see that there might be a problem there. as i understand it, this center is actually owned by the catholic church. bill: it s the newman center and they receive a stipend of $10,000 from the university. but this isn t about anything other than this chaplain upholding what the
church teaches. now, here s the rub, mary katharine. right. bill: nobody is forced to be a catholic. nobody is forced to go to the newman center or to do anything with the catholic church. i agree with sally kohn who waffled around but i agree with her on one thing, these kids have a right to protest if they don t like what father shaffer says in his blog and that s basically what he is doing, just blogging. this is what i believe and why i believe it. they have a right and by the way you are looking at that kid in the collar, he joined some kind of, i don t know, crazy new thing or whatever. that s why he is wearing a collar there. but, the kid, both of these guys have a right to protest but they don t have a right to demand the university punish the priest and the newman center. and that s what they want. they want to punish him. protest is fine. but it turns out that the protest is to silence this other opinion. this is supposed to allegedly be a place of intellectual and spir
violations. joining us now from washington juan williams and mary katharineham. both fox news analysts. what do you think about this george washington deal, juan? well, i just think it s outrageous. you can t tell somebody who is catholic not to be catholic is what i think. the guy is a priest. it s not even that he is simply a member of the congregation and has a different point of view than the rest of the student body. it s that he is a priest. so he is going to represent catholic orthodoxy on campus. now, if it s the case, bill, that the university has an antidiscrimination policy and that they have something to say about the fact that he is condemning homosexual behavior, can i see that there might be a problem there. as i understand it, this center is actually owned by the catholic church. bill: it s the newman center and they receive a stipend of $10,000 from the university. but this isn t about anything other than this chaplain upholding what the
bill: if you are not going to ain t question, just tell me because i don t want to bore the audience. do you support the university kicking this priest off campus? yes or no? when you invited me on i said i wasn t sure what i thought. all i said was. bill: so you don t know what you think? i support his right to say what he said and i support the students to protest. bill: and that s fine. but if you support the priest s right to say what he said, then you can t support him booted off campus. i don t think he is the right person. bill: you are not in charge. you are right i m not in charge. i m not in charge. what does it matter what i think. bill: you are a commentator on this network. if you are the president of george washington university, do you boot this priest off the campus yes or no. i probably do not. what i do do, especially if i m a good catholic i go to the archbishop of the diocese of d.c. we are having enough ministering to the young people at infor