Liberal Catholics are condemning the decision of a Catholic school to bar a girl from enrollment because her parents are lesbians. The eight-year-old was originally admitted but her acceptance was rescinded by the St. Paul Elementary School in Hingham, Massachusetts.
Two months ago, a Catholic school in Denver barred two students on the basis of their parents being gay.
The controversy is likely to repeat itself as our non-discrimination laws come into increasing conflict with free exercise and free associational rights. For a prior article, click here. While I was raised Catholic and support gay rights, the Church does not. It is an article of faith to the Church. After all, this is a religious school that is supported directly by the Church. As distasteful as I find the policy, I believe that religious institutions have a right to set such rules and enforce them. Activists are trying to get the Archdiocese in Boston to intervene but the Archdiocese in the Denver case supported the school.
For the full story, click here.
And like rc said on another thread, there is nothing to learn from your form of conservatism other than hatred, bigotry and intolerance.
Some day maybe you’ll learn the difference between actually teaching and attempted indoctrination, Mein Tootles.
I kinda doubt it though.
Being intolerant of the willfully ignorant and bigoted isn’t a vice, Tootles.
It’s a virtue.
As to my supposed hatred? It’s called “projection” in your case. You cannot accept that you are a hateful person so you try to attribute your failings as a human being to others.
You’re a walking poster child for the mental defects that pass for conservatism these days. People wonder why an idiot like Palin gets attention? It’s because your lot are easily distracted by tits as long as they are white. Bad people promoting bad exclusionary ideas.
So you disapprove of homosexuality? Then don’t be one. But it was hate that kept this girl from going to school. There is no mistaking that just like there is no mistaking your true nature.
You just can’t wait to fire up the ovens so you can get rid of all the non-white, non-hetero people so this will be a White Christian Nation, can you? Clothed in your self-defined false superiority you, like the genocidal zealots before you, persecute and discriminate and eventually use your rationale to kill. Be careful! That word is “rationale” not “rational” or “reasoned”. But hate you personally? No. I hate your hateful ideas and your fake compassion you so casually toss out in defense of your demonstrated homophobia and bigotry. You I don’t care about other than making sure your kind of nonsense remains in the margins of political life in this country and not center stage. But hate you personally?
Get over yourself.
You’re neither that important nor effective. At best, you are fodder for object lessons for others. At worst, you’re a Neocon troll. So I’ll keep using your bigotry and hatred against you to help teach others that’s not what this country is supposed to be about nor was it the intention of the Framers to create this imaginary White Christian Nation you seem to think exists or should exist. Just like I’ll keep using it against those whom you serve (consciously or subconsciously).
Why?
Because I can.
Swarthmore Mom,
I think you’ve got that wrong. The term “universal” or “catholic” in the Church doesn’t refer to secular things like education– math and science. It refers to religious things like faith and Christ.
The Church Universal.
Not the school room universal. Etc.
Buddha: It is not hatred to keep those students out.
You seem to be the only one being hateful, everyone else is being level headed and mature.
There are plenty of options for those children and their parents knew this. The children will not suffer.
I realize that you are being intolerant of people who disapprove of homosexuality and that you want to force your ideas down their throats. Leftists are always intolerant when push comes to shove.
Your intolerance of the church school and the hateful comments your make regarding their religious choices is something people who hate liberty often exhibit.
The reason I said it was “wonderful” is because the Constitutional freedom of religion in this case was left whole in the finest tradition of our principles and values. You read some diabolical wickedness into it. Apparently you are projecting again.
I don’t apologize for subscribing to a belief in the freedom of religion.
Maybe someday, you can learn to do that too.
Come on. Let’s hear some more of your “White Power Defense” of your bigoted political culture of choice, Herr Tootie. It’s funny and educational all at the same time. Not purposefully on your part, of course, but I’ll turn your hatred into an object lesson every time you spew it. The ignorance behind statements such as “This is wonderful” in the context of this thread is intrinsically funny. But I’ll continue to turn your hatred back on you, the emitter. Just like I turn lies against liars.
Because I can.
I’m not the one saying excluding children from school because of their parent’s sexual orientation is “wonderful”, Tootikins.
So you can try to project your hatred on to me if you like, but what you do is highlight what I actually despise: bigots. You know. Like yourself.
Buddha:
Stop being hateful Buddha.
Though you cannot help it, it demeans this website.
Racist and homophobic.
How very inclusive you are in your hatred, Tootlicious.
This is wonderful.
AY, both.. No good?
and next from the people that brought you institutionalized pedophilia….
Similar situation occurred in Vancouver regarding a teacher in a Catholic school who was fired due to her orientation.
Why in the world would you want to send your child to an institution that actively denounces the legitimacy of your family unit?
Jericho,
Are those your thoughts or are you being funny?
It’s not the schools fault either, it’s simply their God that is discriminatory towards gays.
Their God is the Almighty Homophobe.
This child was saved from a decade of indoctrination.
I hope that one day the children of divorced parents enjoy similar freedom.
These schools are anti-catholic. Catholic means “universal”.
Having spent eight years in a parochial school, one wonders why the parents would want to subject a child to that. On the other hand, one has to assume the parents are Catholic and therefore should have expected the church’s stance. I agree with the good prfessor, as disgusting as it is, the oxymoron of “religious intolerance” is completely legal.
My memory may be faulty on this, but as I recall, the Catholic Church’s non-acceptance of homosexuality comes under the same catagory as its opposition to birth control, masterbation and unmarried sexual relations. They all stem from opposition to sexual activity that isn’t intended to produce children. I don’t remember if such a belief ties back to any of the Ten Commandments in somewhat the same way as a SCOTUS decision, in theory at least, relates back to the Constitution. Is it a sin of lying? A sin of not honoring one’s parents? Murder? Or is it just a man-made, extra-canonical layer of institutionalized bigotry?
Religious institutions have a right to set such rules and enforce them without public school buses.
It is not the childs fault.