Sargent on "Gotcha" and CST

Regarding the "Should Sec. Rice get an honorary degree from BC" issue . . . check out Mark Sargent's post over at the Commonweal blog.  (The post might also be relevant to the back-and-forth we had here, a few weeks ago, about the relative outspoken-ness of the Catholic "right" and "left" on mistreatment of detainees and sexual morality, respectively).  He concludes:

I have no objection in principle to challenging Catholics, particularly Catholic intellectuals on both sides of the cultura/political split, with the unevenness of their concern for these different issues, but I don't like that challenge being used as a rhetorical ploy to avoid dealing with the real issue before us right now: are Hollenbach and Himes correct in their claim that a Catholic university that honors Catholic teaching on war should not honor Ms. Rice?

Fair enough.  Are Hollenbach and Himes correct?  What do we think?

And -- although I agree entirely with Mark's "no gotcha" proposal, I do think it is fair to demand not that all of those who question the appropriateness of honoring Ms. Rice also have opposed BC's various controversial honorees, but that all of those who oppose an honorary degree for Ms. Rice, on the ground that her views and / or actions conflict with Catholic teaching, employ arguments (e.g., about how much conflict is too much, about what counts as conflict, about the room for prudential judgment, etc.) that they would be willing to apply, or see applied, with respect to other controversial proposed honorees.  And, vice-versa.