'Exorcist' author to sue Georgetown after Sebelius visit

[Eugene]

Source: Fox News

'Exorcist' author to sue Georgetown after Sebelius visit

Published May 25, 2012
FoxNews.com

The author of best-selling novel “The Exorcist” says he plans to sue alma mater Georgetown University in a Vatican court after the Catholic school invited Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to speak on campus.

The author, William Peter Blatty, says the Jesuit-founded university in Washington has for the past two decades invited speakers who support abortion rights and has refused to comply with orders by the late Pope John Paul II for church-affiliated colleges and universities.

The “last straw” was the university allowing students to invite Sebelius to speak May 18, considering she was instrumental in helping President Obama draft health care reform that includes a mandate for some religious institutions to offer insurance to cover employees’ birth-control costs, said Blatty, who attended Georgetown on a scholarship and graduated in 1950.

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On the website, the 85-year-old Blatty also encourages others to show their disappointment by cutting off donations to Georgetown for a year.

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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/25/exorcist-author-to-sue-georgetown-after-sebelius-visit/

[Drunken Irishman]

1. Uh...isn't it their right to invite whomever they want to speak?

[TexasProgresive]

6. As is Blatty's right to boycott

I'm not agreeing with him just saying, ya know?

[Drunken Irishman]

8. He's suing. That goes beyond boycotting.

[TexasProgresive]

9. That's his right as well.

If the judge accepts it or throws it out then so be it.

[Drunken Irishman]

10. Like I said, this goes beyond boycotting.

I guess everyone has the right to sue someone else. It doesn't make it right and it doesn't make him right. Just like it wouldn't be right if I sued you for your post here.

People like him are repugnant and make a mockery of any legal system.

[LiberalAndProud]

12. Suing in Vatican court. He wants Georgetown to be stripped of the Catholic.

The suit will be filed with the Vatican and the Archdiocese of Washington, asking the church to remove Georgetown’s right to call itself Catholic, according to the Cardinal Newman Society, which Blatty has asked for guidance.

Some might think no harm done? I suppose it might have an impact on alumni donations. That would be bad.

[Drunken Irishman]

13. I'll counter sue!

[sharp_stick]

2. A Vatican court?

I don't think the chief of the pedophiles or his acolytes hanging out in Italy have a lot of say on anything anymore.

[daaron]

11. Exactly true. This is a non-story story if there ever was one. nt

[sinkingfeeling]

3. But it was so okay to write "The Exorcist" and make millions off the book

and awful movie? Wonder if anybody that worked for Blatty ever used birth control?

[Tansy_Gold]

4. His father should have. n/t

[rug]

5. Somebody should tell him the graphic Fox News used for Sebelius isn't really her.

[struggle4progress]

7. Blatty must need publicity for some new project