Even before Georgetown University covered up initials relating to the name of Christ, feminist and gay groups on campus kicked off Lent with a “Sex Positive” celebration of “alternative lifestyles” (with attention to bondage, cross-dressing, porn, etc.). Other Catholic colleges, such as Loyola of Chicago and Seattle University, held similar “Lenten” festivals.

Maybe, as Mal Kline suggests, the denizens of these campuses “need to spend 40 days and nights in an actual desert.”