Gordon Gee Quotes
You can’t trust those damn Catholics.
Gee, E. Gordon. Remarks to the Ohio State University Athletic Council. 5 Dec. 2012, Columbus, OH.
Poland was one of the Nazi occupied nations which cooperated in the mass murder of Jews and facilitated the Holocaust. Even after the war, much of the Polish Catholic clergy maintained virulent anti-Semitic views and in 1946 Polish thugs with the encouragement of some priests engaged in a pogrom in Kielce of returning Polish Jewish refugees. Catholic Primate of Poland, Augustus Hlond, made numerous anti-Semitic statements further exacerbating the problem. Many cast blame on Pope Pius XII who was not very vocal during the Nazi era regarding the ill treatment and murder of Jews, Gypsies, and handicapped, giving a “green light” to the Polish Prelate and those lower anti-Semitic priests. Papal apologists note that Hitler could have turned on the Catholic Church; the Pope had to walk a fine line between condemning evil and risking the welfare of the Church. Nonetheless, many Catholic priests risked and some lost their lives speaking out against the Nazi evil and protecting Nazi targets.
It was not until 1780 that Catholics were allowed to even be members of Town Corporations.
Many Protestant Englishmen were shocked to hear this, having little familiarity with the details of the functioning of the Church of England—the Established Church of Great Britain—in Ireland and the contribution of the Church to the discrimination against Irish Catholics and the poverty of Ireland.
In this speech, and in {634756}, he argued against unification to a public that was mostly opposed. The leadership was interested because they were facing the Muslim Ottoman Turks who were getting more powerful each day. The Eastern Emperor, Constantine XI, more of a soldier and politician than a cleric, wanted the military strength of the Franks and other Western European Christian armies to help protect the Eastern Empire and Byzantium and were willing to reunite under the Pope to get it. Gennadios and his faction were not. They prevailed and the next year, the Muslims conquered Byzantium which had little help from the armies of the Western Roman Empire.
In 1859 Boston public school students were required to recite the Ten Commandments from the King James version of the Bible each week. Thomas Wall, an 11 year old Catholic refused to recite from the King James Protestant version of the Bible. His teacher then beat him until he complied. His parents filed an assault complaint against the teacher. The Boston police court not only exonerated the teacher but excoriated the Walls. Some day a Jew might ask to swear his court oath. The “slippery slope” argument that the court made referred to the fact that orthodox Jews pray facing Jerusalem often with a prayer shawl over their heads. The Pentateuch is the first 5 books of the Old Testament which Jews recognize as opposed to the entire Bible.
See Justice Richard Cox for a similar view.
Elwood Gordon Gee, known as E. Gordon Gee, is an American academic. As of 2020, he was serving his second term as President of West Virginia University; his first term was from 1981 to 1985. Gee has held more university presidencies than any other American. He was head of the University of Colorado from 1985 to 1990, of The Ohio State University from 1990 to 1997, of Brown University from 1998 to 2000, of Vanderbilt University from 2000 to 2007, and of The Ohio State University for a second time from 2007 to 2013. Time rated Gee one of the top 10 college presidents in the United States for 2010.
