Catholic school pulls out of Boston Saint Patrick’s Day Parade after gay group approved

lifesitenews.com ^ | 02/26/2015 | n/a

[massmike]

Immaculate Heart of Mary School of Still River, MA has withdrawn its marching band and float of Saint Patrick from this year’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade after learning that a small homosexual activist group will be allowed to march while publicly identifying its homosexuality.

The school is compelled by the teachings of the Catholic Church to pull out. According to the Principal, Brother Thomas Dalton, “Catholics are forbidden to sponsor or even participate in an event which openly promotes unnatural and immoral behavior. The Church will never accept nor condone same sex marriage and the homosexual life style.”

For 25 years the school has participated in the parade dedicated to Saint Patrick and believes that to have a float with his representation leading a group openly promoting and proud of its homosexual identity would draw down the ire of this great patron of the Boston Archdiocese. “Saint Patrick stands with Saint Paul in condemning the sin of sodomy,” stated Brother Dalton. “The name of Saint Patrick should be dropped from the parade as he would have nothing to do with the likes of it today.”

The director of the Band, Br. Peter Bracket stated, “All the Band members and their parents—although greatly disappointed in not being able to march—are fully supportive of the School’s decision. We have to remain loyal to Church teachings which states in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, promulgated by Saint John Paul II, that ‘homosexual acts are acts of grave depravity’ and ‘are intrinsically disordered…Under no circumstances can they be approved.’ (#2357)”

[Secret Agent Man]

Good for them.

Pretty soon they will be forced to take homo students and “kids” of homo “parents”.

[Proud2BeRight]

Based on what has happened to the florist and the baker, they may force them to march in the parade.

[Secret Agent Man]

We need the sodomy laws back.

As well as adultery laws.

And eliminate no-fault divorce laws.

And defend the actual definition of marriage. It’s not whatever anyone wants it to be. There’s a real historical and truthful definition. The only right one has a man and a woman and God in it.

[yldstrk]

Good.

[rockrr]

Congratulations to them for their principled stand (no pun intended). It seems that common decency is an increasingly rare commodity lately.

[smokingfrog]

WWSPD

[Shadow44]

What does homosexuality have to do with St. Patrick’s Day?

Why do they have to force EVERYTHING to have to talk about them?

[Robwin]

Good for them. Now if they could only get the clerical authorities in the Catholic Church to adhere as closely to Catholic doctrine (including on abortion).

[Ray76]

Excellent.

[sten]

time to boycott the parade and every organization associated with it.

calling those companies and letting them know you’re no longer using their products would sting

[Ray76]

Mass Resistance!

[Politicalkiddo]

Good. Run for your lives. Don’t look back.

[Mears]

Where the hell is Still River?

lifesite news doesn’t do much fact checking.

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[Ray76]

http://school.saintbenedict.com/

[Mears]

Thank you so much———I saw that it was in Harvard,a beautiful town.

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[knarf]

It's what citizens can do ...

What if they gave a St Patty's Day parade and nobody came .....

[Jim from C-Town]

They will shut down first.

These are true Catholic me. Not wishy-washy bishops and homosexual members of the lavender mafia.

[CharlesOConnell]

The South, unsurprisingly, is the only region where fewer than 50 percent of all those polled endorse same-sex marriage. This is not going to hold. Earlier this year, a Gallup poll revealed that 80 percent of young Americans believe in same-sex marriage. Polling within Louis­iana, one of the most socially conservative and religiously observant states, where a solid but shrinking majority opposes gay marriage, found that half of voters thirty and under favor gay marriage. … “If these kids find out that you are against gay marriage, they won’t listen to a thing you have to say about anything.” – Christian and Countercultural by Rod Dreher | Articles | First Things

[Jim from C-Town]

I want to move there! My Catholic School is excellent, but they have no religious Sisters teaching there for several years. They also charge about twice the tuition.