What a sole blogger could achieve

Omaha blogger Jeff Baker have successfully managed to prevent a culture of death speaker from giving a lecture at women's event hosted by a Catholic university.

On Sunday, August 26 the Catholic blog Defend Us In Battle.org publicized the fact that Creighton University of Omaha, Nebraska, a Catholic institution, had scheduled abortion and euthanasia activist Ann Lamott to give the keynote address at a 2007 Center for Health Policy & Ethics lecture for women on September 19th.
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The blog, authored by Omaha resident Jeff Baker, encouraged readers to contact the Director of the Creighton Center while 'cc'ing the President of the University and the Archbishop of Omaha. Apparently, Baker's readers did just that.

Within 36 hours of Baker's posting, Creighton published a statement on their website announcing that the University and Ms. Lamott had "mutually agreed upon cancellation" of the September lecture. The statement reads in part, "After careful review of Ms. Lamott's most recent writings (which postdated her contract agreement), we have concluded that key points are in opposition to Catholic teaching which, in our judgment, makes her an inappropriate choice for the Women and Health Lecture Series."

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I bet there were many other students at Creighton University of Omaha who didn't like the idea of a Catholic university inviting someone like Ann Lamott to give a keynote address at women's event. Once they read the blog post, they did their best e-mailing to whoever was in charge. But they needed someone to act first. Someone who didn't hide behind the "I'm just one man" excuse, but just got the job done.