Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia today on the need for civility in public discourse.

One need not agree with her substantive position to support her right to respectful free expression. And yet, some of those who disagreed with her position – including Rush Limbaugh and commentators throughout the blogosphere and in various other media channels – responded with behavior that can only be described as misogynistic, vitriolic, and a misrepresentation of the position of our student.

And really, who is there to support here? A poised young woman making her case in a calm and reasoned manner or a drug-addled blowhard, four times married yet mysteriously without children decrying the need for contraception? Yet Republicans continue to stand by this blight on the political landscape at the expense of everyone else..