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1 posted on 01/03/2005 7:46:31 AM PST by Catholic54321
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Personally, I think this is a misdirected effort.  Essentially, you're punishing a kid who's already in a bad spot, being raised by a couple of fags.  The child hasn't committed the sin.  Open the doors to Salvation and open your hearts to this child.

In a secular school, he'll likely never hear the truth about the abomination that is homosexuality and might grow up to condone it.

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2 posted on 01/03/2005 7:51:00 AM PST by End Times Sentinel (Merry Christmas, Happy Hannuka, Funky Kwanza, and a Violent Eid!)
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"This is the quagmire that the parents' position represents," he said. "It's a slippery slope to go down."

When parents seek to enroll their kids in these schools, are they asked any questions concerning how they have lived or do live their lives? Divorce, birth control, etc?
4 posted on 01/03/2005 7:57:37 AM PST by BikerNYC
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That is so much modernist quasi-Catholic BS out of the head of the school. That gay partnership is public and scandalous. A divorced and remarried person without an annulment would fall into the same category, but not the divorced chaste parent. The practicing contraceptor is not a public act or scandal, therefore different.

When the classmates want to go to the gay parent's house to play or spend the night that puts Catholic heterosexual parents in a real quandary. No one with half a brain wants that kind of modeling for their child and to explain why they won't let them go presents a problem for both children.

It is unloving for the school to do this, both to the homosexuals, the straight parents and all the kids. The truth done in love will set them free.
5 posted on 01/03/2005 7:59:28 AM PST by amihow
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That is so much modernist quasi-Catholic BS out of the head of the school. That gay partnership is public and scandalous. A divorced and re-married person without an annulment would fall into the same category, but not the divorced chaste parent. The practicing contraceptor is not a public act or scandal, therefore different.

When the classmates want to go to the gay parent's house to play or spend the night that puts Catholic heterosexual parents in a real quandry. No one with half a brain wants that kind of modeling for their child and to explain why they won't let them go presents a problem for both children.

It is unloving for the school to do this, both to the homosexuals, the straight parents and all the kids. The truth done in love will set them free.


7 posted on 01/03/2005 8:00:42 AM PST by amihow
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"We send our children to a Catholic school because we expect and demand that the teachings of our church will be adhered to."

A fool and his money...
9 posted on 01/03/2005 8:03:35 AM PST by latae sententiae (Last Things first!)
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My take:

Give the kid a good Catholic education and keep his "parents" out of the school. PT conferences can be done off church grounds and away from young children.

And be sure that you put it all in wiritng because these two are gonna enlist the ACLU sooner or later.

20 posted on 01/03/2005 9:10:44 AM PST by jwalsh07
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Some parents and parishioners have accused the Roman Catholic diocese in Orange County of violating church doctrine by allowing a gay couple to enroll their children in a church school.

This is a tough call. The child hasn't done anything wrong, and may benefit from hearing the Catholic Church's viewpoint on homosexuality, which he/she certainly won't get at home or in a public school. But, will allowing him in then serve as an entrance for the parents to scream to the state or ACLU about homophobia or intolerance as soon as a teacher brings it up? Also, I can see the other parents' view that allowing the child in is seen as a tacit approval of the lifestyle; but I can't understand why two homosexuals would choose to send "their" child to a Catholic school (or any denomination other than Anglican/Episcopalian). As usual, a child will be caught in the middle of adults' problems.

22 posted on 01/03/2005 9:17:45 AM PST by HenryLeeII (Democrats have helped kill more Americans than the Soviets and Nazis combined!)
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I wonder just how Catholic this school is if it appealed to a homosexual couple. If the school were teaching sound doctrine, as few Catholic schools actually do, then I have a hard time seeing why it would appeal to a homo couple. Why would they send their "child" there only to be told daddy and daddy are living in sin? I would bet anything the school teaches watered down Catholicism, like the "catholic" schools I went to.


32 posted on 01/03/2005 10:43:17 AM PST by sassbox
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Not sure I agree with the concerned parents here, though I can appreciate their opinion. Where do you draw the line? The article touches on it, but what about kids with pro-abortion parents, or kids born out of wedlock, or with parents who believe that priests should be married or that women should be priests? What about a kid with one orthodox Catholic parent, and an atheist or heterodox Catholic for the other? Do you punish the kid for the sins of the parent(s)?


35 posted on 01/03/2005 6:23:28 PM PST by Conservative til I die
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If the school makes it clear that it will teach that homosexuality is a sin, I would not have a problem with it.


38 posted on 01/04/2005 3:34:20 AM PST by connectthedots
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