Denying Children cause Parents are Lesbians

[dreadgeek]

Originally Posted by softness

I wonder if other catholic schools are going to take this stand now as well. I sit here, shaking my head and wonder how a church, with so much love and compassion to offer to this world, would take this stance.

If the church was true to their mission, they would have kept the children in their school so they would have a religious foundation. Because they chose to austrasize the children, it tells me their motives were not for the sake of the children, but for the sake of their doctrine.

So, in other words, they sacrificed these specific children to protect their ancient beliefs.

shame on them...

While I agree that the archdiocese is wrong in their decision, I think that ultimately they are doing this child a long-term favor. NOT going to a Catholic school they will not be exposed to a belief system that is anti-queer and anti-woman. They may learn to think rationally and to have the courage of their convictions to follow it all the way up and all the way down, no matter how uncomfortable that might be.

I was raised in the church (AME) and while I am glad that I learned the Bible as a piece of literature, almost nothing I learned in church that was specifically religious in nature has been of any real use to me as an adult except as a negative example of how NOT to treat other people and how NOT to think.

What's more the archdiocese is being entirely consistent with their beliefs. I understand that some queer people would like Christianity, in its current, American formulation, to be a different religion than what it is but it isn't. The Catholic church just is what it is. Part of what it is is homophobic.

Cheers
Aj