By James Tillman
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, May 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- An uproar among homosexualist forces has ensued after Marquette University President Father Robert Wild withdrew a job offered to an openly lesbian professor, citing her academic writings' sexually explicit content as out of line with Catholic teaching. According to some reports, Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki's input on the matter was a key influence his decision to withdraw the offer.
Jodi O'Brien, who is currently a Sociology professor at Seattle University, which is also a Jesuit Catholic Institution, had been offered the job of dean of the Marquette College of Arts and Sciences, before Marquette University rescinded the offer Thursday.
An examination of O'Brien's writings - with such titles as "Wrestling the Angel of Contradiction: Queer Christian Identities" - quickly reveals matierial in dramatic conflict with the Catholic character of a Jesuit university.
In her 1996 article "Changing the Subject," published in Woman and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, O'Brien discusses multiple sexual encounters, such as a lesbian who uses a sex toy to have sex with a gay man, in obscene detail. "What have they just done?" she goes on to wonder. "Is she having sex as a woman with a man? Is she having sex as a woman-man with a man-woman?"
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