"Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver weighed-in today on the recent decision to not re-enroll the child of a lesbian couple in a local Catholic school. The archbishop explained, “If parents don’t respect the beliefs of the Church, or live in a manner that openly rejects those beliefs, then partnering with those parents becomes very difficult, if not impossible.”
Catholic News Agency
Why is this so hard to understand? If you engage in activities contrary to Church teaching your kids and you will not be welcome at Catholic schools. These are private institutions and they have the right to pick and choose who they allow in.
If you have beliefs contrary to those of any private organization why should that organization be forced to allow you to participate? Should the Lions Club be forced to accept you as a member if you hate blind kids?
Beyond that, as a parent I wouldn't want to send my kids to a school that is going to teach them not only that the life I live is wrong but that the activities I engage in will condemn my soul. What does this do to the kid? It seems as though these people are using their kids as pawns in some sort of political statement regarding their sexual licentiousness. In some ways one could make the argument that by bringing their kids into this these people are committing a form of child abuse.
You can't tell me they didn't see this coming.
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Tom,
ReplyDeleteThere will soon be a law suit claiming discrimination on the basis of parental sexual orientation. Then if the school is receiving any funding from the State (and some Catholic schools do), the State will say that such funding will be rmeoved. Indeed, even without the possibility that this school receives some State funding, the State may say in the interests of societal freedom and diversity, the school must change and teach equivolency of homosexual relationships with heterosexual ones. It is rapidly coming to the be exactly like ancient Rome - believe anything you want so long as you worship the Emperor.