Lesbian scene bans Vagina Monologues at Providence College
It's hard to imagine much of a fuss over The Vagina Monologues at this point, particularly in Rhode Island at Providence College where the play has been staged four years in a row. But add a new school president by the name of Rev. Brian Shanley to the Dominican run campus and anything can happen. In fact the play has been banned with Shanley's primary objection being the tale of a sexual encounter between a woman and a teenage girl. While the teen narrator describes the episode as “a kind of heaven,” Shanley said it’s “abusive, exploitative and morally wrong” and that the church teaches that being gay or lesbian is “intrinsically disordered.”
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