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I remember reading about some of these issues, like would he support the catechism’s view of things.

As a Wascally Evangelical I had one small quibble. Homosexuals called to celibacy. Well, okay at first. However significant development is available in a seriously spiritual Christian life, and the love of God can remold the love of man. I’ve seen it happen and the bible suggests it too. But if this was his issue, he could have easily articulated it.

Excerpted from the article:

“It is the School’s position that a Catholic school teacher must always communicate the faith in a way that is positive and never hurtful. Tone and choice of words matter and I trust Mrs. Jannuzzi’s stated promise to strive always to teach in a spirit of truth and charity.”

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“Jannuzzi, who received praise even from some critics for the quality of her teaching and her relationship with students, ran into trouble when she posted a number of comments against same-sex “marriage” on her personal Facebook page, which the diocese mandated she close down.

“One minute they argue hey [sic] are born this way and it is not a choice to get 14th amendment rights equal protection” – which was intended for “unchangeable characteristics such as race and disability,” she wrote. Then, “they will argue everyone should be able to choose” to engage in the homosexual lifestyle.

Same-sex relationships and its agenda threaten to “reengineer Western civ[ilization] into a slow extinction,” wrote Jannuzzi.

“We need healthy families with a mother and a father for the sake of the children and humanity,” she concluded.”

Apparently her Facebook page statements condemning same-sex marriage were not made in the “positive and non-hurtful manner” in the “spirit of truth and charity” that her superiors would like her to demonstrate. Because there is always a “positive and non-hurtful manner” to say in the “spirit of truth and charity” that homosexual acts are acts of “serious depravity” which are “intrinsically disordered” and “in no circumstances” to be approved while simultaneously holding that same-sex marriage (a sacrament of the church), and gay adoption and everything else that the homosexual lobby is demanding is okay.

Is that the position of the school district now?

Everyone is called to chastity (sexual virtue) as appropriate to their way of life. For the unmarried, it is chaste continence and celibacy. For the married, it is true, man-woman spousal union.

Same rule no matter what your "orientation" is.

I know that gay people seeking to avoid sin and live in a truly Christian manner, can experience several outcomes as regards their sexual feelings:

They may get to the point where they absolutely no longer experience same-sex attraction
They may get to a point where their same-sex attraction is not gone, but is significantly diminished
They may find that their same-sex attraction remains, but they are able to resist it, just as any of us might have to resist some persistent temptation.

*Some* people in any of these three points may actually be able to succeed in a real man-woman marriage, no matter where they are on the "spectrum." So-called "Ex-Gay-Bisexual" Robert Oscar Lopez seems to be in this category, and has done some very thoughtful writing about it.

But I wouldn't want to imply that EVERY gay guy could turn heterosexual if he really, really wanted. That is just not the case.

Some just have deep-seated desire they have to resist all their lives, and cannot even experience attraction to a person of the opposite sex. In any case, I say God bless them, it's a cross to bear--- and we all have "crosses," don't we?