Anti-Catholic Education

Campus Report ^ | March 14, 2008 | Malcolm Kline

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Anti-Catholic Education

by: Malcolm A. Kline, March 14, 2008

The faithful are increasingly likely to face hostility to their beliefs in secular educational settings, the Catholic League’s 2007 Report on Anti-Catholicism shows:

• On February 21, 2007, “A substitute teacher wiped the Ash Wednesday ashes off the forehead of a student at White County High School,” the League reports. “When the girl and her classmates protested, they were berated by teachers.”

• On April 19 in Lake Bluff, Illinois, “A middle school teacher gave an assignment to her students pinpointing who was responsible for the Holocaust and listed Pope Pius XII along with Himmler and Goebels.” ...

• On June 25, in Columbus, Ohio, “A federal judge ruled that employees whose religious beliefs conflict with the political positions of their labor unions cannot be forced to pay union dues. The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit by a Catholic schoolteacher, who refused to pay National Education Association dues because of the union’s pro-abortion stance. The teacher sued Ohio’s State Employment Relations Board after the board ruled that only members of religions with historically held objections to union membership....

In the old days, “Don’t make a federal case out of it!” was an exasperated plea that meant a matter was no big deal. In this age, such a recourse is about the only way that Catholics, or other people of faith, in the current circumlocution, can actually exercise their religious freedom in a country that was founded with that very liberty in mind...

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This post is on lock. That is too bad. It is an excellent essay. It is so sad, but so true. My heart is broken.

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On February 21, 2007, “A substitute teacher wiped the Ash Wednesday ashes off the forehead of a student at White County High School,” the League reports. “When the girl and her classmates protested, they were berated by teachers.”

That's just vulgar, invincible ignorance. It's probably a violation of a "no touching" policy as well.

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I am visualizing a foreign teacher from some non-Christian-influenced country, perhaps from Africa, Asia, or the Middle East, and I can kind of see your point...BUT, if the situation were reversed and a Christian teacher somehow assaulted the beliefs of an African, Asian, or Middle Eastern student, that teacher would be in "sensitivity training" before recess.

In fact, there's an article on Fox this a.m. about an Iranian student suing his school for something a teacher said.