After weeks of intense debate among members of the Catholic Church, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will address graduates of Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute Friday morning.
After the Jesuit, Washington, DC-based school invited Sebelius to speak earlier this month, a conservative think tank circulated a petition protesting the invitation. Earlier this week, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, archbishop of the region encompassing Washington, criticized Georgetown’s selection of Sebelius.
Georgetown, of course, was already at the center of another intense debate that occured at the cross-section of religion and politics earlier this year, when law student Sandra Fluke’s support for contraception coverage prompted conservative firebrand Rush Limbaugh to call her a “slut.”
