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Massachusetts Catholic School Bars Same-Sex Couple From Prom
Associated Press ^ | 4/27/2007 | Associated Press

Posted on 04/27/2007 9:13:14 AM PDT by cowtowney

Rosanne Strott says she was not trying to make a political statement. She just wanted to invite a close friend to Friday night's prom at Bishop Feehan High School.

The problem was, that friend was a woman. Catholic Diocese officials barred the same-sex couple from attending the prom together.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: catholic; gay; glsen; gsa; homosexualagenda; massachusetts; pflag; prom
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Good.

The Catholic Church is doing its part. It's about time some others stepped up.

1 posted on 04/27/2007 9:13:19 AM PDT by cowtowney
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To: cowtowney

If they weren’t out for a political point, why is this in the Associated Press? I don’t notify the AP about every development of my life...


2 posted on 04/27/2007 9:17:36 AM PDT by pgyanke (RUDY GIULIANI 2008 - BECAUSE IF YOU'RE GOING TO COMPROMISE YOUR PRINCIPLES ANYWAY... WHY WAIT?)
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To: cowtowney
The Catholic Church is doing its part. It's about time some others stepped up.

You obviously don't know Massachusetts courts or our new "affirmative action" Governor very well.I guarantee you that by the time the dust has settled here these misfits will get a big cash settlement and the school in question will be ordered to "celebrate diversity" or be closed down.

I *guarantee* it.

3 posted on 04/27/2007 9:18:02 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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To: cowtowney

As a Catholic, I’m happy to see the church stood up to this publicity stunt!


4 posted on 04/27/2007 9:20:00 AM PDT by captjanaway
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To: cowtowney

Now say three Hail Marys and wash your brain out with soap.


5 posted on 04/27/2007 9:20:14 AM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
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To: cowtowney

This school fired its football coach last year because he knocked up his girlfriend. So they are consistent. The story doesn’t say if the girl she wants to bring is a student at Bishop Feehan. Many Public Schools in MA don’t allow students to take their out of town boyfriends/girlfriends to the Prom. They also don’t allow 20 year old dates to attend either. She’s 17 and “openly bisexual”, Mom and Dad must be proud to know that their little girl has been doing it with anything that moves. Remember when Sex Education discouraged promiscuity?


6 posted on 04/27/2007 9:20:51 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: cowtowney

God needs bodies for souls.


7 posted on 04/27/2007 9:23:23 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: cowtowney

were they going as “a couple” or as two seperate people going stag?


8 posted on 04/27/2007 9:24:13 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: cowtowney

Massachusetts sounds like the closest thing to hell in the U.S. Too bad we can’t kick them out of the union


9 posted on 04/27/2007 9:25:22 AM PDT by SaintDismas (.)
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To: pgyanke

Good point!


10 posted on 04/27/2007 9:26:15 AM PDT by livius
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To: longtermmemmory

She said she’s not her girlfriend in a sexual way nor doe’s the article identify the non Bishop Feehan student as Gay. But don’t let the facts get in the way of a Boring Broadsheet headline.


11 posted on 04/27/2007 9:29:07 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: cowtowney

My sentiments exactly. Good. I’m rooting for the Catholic church.


12 posted on 04/27/2007 9:30:01 AM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: Gay State Conservative

I’ll take that bet, even though you didn’t bet; you guaranteed it. I don’t think the State really wants to take on the Catholic Church on this issue. After all, its the State thats always screaming about separation of church and state, so we’ll see how far they want to go down this road.


13 posted on 04/27/2007 9:30:12 AM PDT by Integrityrocks
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To: cowtowney

Girls who don’t have dates with boys attend our local prom together. They aren’t gay, they just want an opportunity to attend the prom.


14 posted on 04/27/2007 9:32:45 AM PDT by syriacus (Imus is gone because he flustered Schumer by telling the world he hadn't visited Walter Reed.)
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Forcryinoutloud. First, it's a Catholic dance- they can't follow their own religious morals? Even for us non-Catholics, this reaction is disconserting.

History repeats itself. The early Christians were part of a moral revolution, and the Roman Empire hated them for it. They rejected homosexuality and and other commonly accepted sexual immorality. Thus they were called "haters of mankind" by people like Pliny. Sound familiar? The Christian moral view was aginst the law, and they were persecuted for it.

The Left is trying hard to make it against the law again. We can either fight them now, or fight them later.

15 posted on 04/27/2007 9:33:06 AM PDT by mikeus_maximus (Abort Rudy.)
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To: cowtowney

Isn’t the school a private organization? Aren’t I allowed to choose who I associate with? Or is guberment going to start telling me who I can and cannot associate with, as well as force me to associate with someone I choose not to associate with?

Free country indeed....</sarc>


16 posted on 04/27/2007 9:33:10 AM PDT by craig_eddy
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To: longtermmemmory

The actual title of the article does not say “gay couple”.


17 posted on 04/27/2007 9:34:18 AM PDT by Cailleach
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To: cowtowney

I heard they left lickity split.


18 posted on 04/27/2007 9:35:00 AM PDT by conserv8ive1 (Rudy and the Bots...blasting off to oblivion.)
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To: Integrityrocks
I don’t think the State really wants to take on the Catholic Church on this issue.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that what might be true in Alaska is true in Massachusetts.You've gotta trust me when I tell you that Massachusetts is different...*much* different...from every other state in the union.

19 posted on 04/27/2007 9:36:41 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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To: cowtowney

They did the right thing. The girl is the guilty party, not the school.


20 posted on 04/27/2007 9:37:46 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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