“The mask is off” aptly describes Georgetown Law professors’ obscene distortion of the Catholic Faith to secure legal protections for DEI as a religion.
Georgetown Law professors William Treanor and Amy Uelmen have crafted a remarkably dishonest defense of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, disguising radical left-wing ideology as Catholic tradition. Their recent essay in America magazine represents not scholarly analysis but pure propaganda, a cynical attempt to baptize secular progressivism with holy water while hoping no one notices the fundamental contradiction.
The audacity of their argument is staggering. These professors claim that opposition to DEI constitutes an attack on religious freedom. In fact, they themselves have already surrendered Georgetown’s Catholic identity to the altar of woke orthodoxy. They invoke papal encyclicals and Jesuit tradition to justify programs that would be utterly foreign to any Catholic thinker before the cultural revolution of the 1960s. This is intellectual dishonesty masquerading as theological sophistication.
Consider the manipulation in their core argument. They quote Pope Francis on including those on the “periphery” to defend bureaucratic systems that sort students and faculty by skin color and sexual orientation. They cite Pope John Paul II’s call for solidarity to justify dividing the human family into oppressor and victim classes. This is not interpretation but perversion. They take sacred texts and twist them to serve an agenda their original authors would have condemned in a heartbeat.
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