No more love nests on the university’s dime.

News from a local Catholic university:

The University of St. Thomas announced today that it will not allow employees who accompany students on university-sponsored trips to room together if they have a romantic attachment to each other and are not married.

….St. Thomas’ president, the Rev. Dennis Dease, said in a statement that the policy "is not about the private lives or consciences of faculty and staff.

"Rather, it is about the University of St. Thomas, in its institutional acts, being what it purports to be: a Catholic university," he said. He said the new policy maintains "the integrity of the university’s Catholic nature and faithfulness to its Catholic mission."

Note that the university isn’t going to do bed checks; it’s announcing simply that it will no longer pay for unmarried couples to room together in hotels, and instead a separate room must be reserved.  Nevertheless, and predictably, opponents are calling the move a violation of nondiscrimination policies.