Response to Cathy (via Rick)

Assuming that a university bases its exclusion of pro-life groups on an overtly moral position, rather than on moral neutrality, Cathy asks "Is there anything that can be said to that?"

Well, yes, much could be said. The whole natural law tradition could be said, for example.

The elimination of moral neutrality in favor of substantive claims regarding the good leaves "nothing to be said" only if we adopt the notion that claims about human good are not debatable.

But since just such a vacuum might follow from a secular university's abandonment of neutrality, we ought to be quite cautious in encouraging such a university to stake out a self-consciously substantive moral position. We might be eliminating our one last basis for dialogue with said institution.