Posted on 10/27/2004 4:35:51 PM PDT by NYer
How unfortunate that the Chedid family does not reside within proximity to San Diego, CA, where, Maronite priest, Fr. Nabil Mouannes, founded the first Maronite Catholic School in 2000. The following is from the San Diego News Notes journal.
ST. EPHREM MARONITE CATHOLIC ACADEMY, the parish school for grades K-10 of St. Ephrem Maronite Catholic Church, opened on September 5 in El Cajon. The church, which is located at 750 Medford Street, is under the Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles and pastored by Father Nabil Mouannes. The academy, in its first year of operation, has 20 students from 10 families. It is staffed by two full-time teachers, one part-time science teacher, and volunteer part-time aides.
According to principal Michael Horvath, "Each school day begins with Holy Mass. The Academy is loyal to the Holy Father and the traditions of the Church. The curriculum is as Catholic as possible, utilizing solidly Catholic texts from the past and present.
"The philosophy of the school is the salvation of souls through excellence in education. St. Ephrem Academy is an extension of the Gospel witness in the home, whereby parents are the primary educators of their children.
"St. Ephrem Academy is grateful to the El Cajon planning commission for granting it the proper conditional use permit for a school, the neighbors for their support, the Eparchy for their approval, and the benefactors who have come forward with their financial help. It is most especially grateful to Father Nabil Mouannes for his vision in the founding of the first Maronite Catholic School in the United States."
Ping!
Bump. V's wife.
Homosexual Agenda Ping - The whole article, while true, is so cautiously understated that it looks like shades of grey rather than the eye-blinding black and white it should be.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not faulting the writer at all. I'm just a hot head.
;-)
Even if - IF - kids can opt out of the specific sex ed classes, just attending screwel with a bunch of other kids who are being polluted, indoctrinated and recruited will harm them. And it's obvious from this article (and many more like it) that this assault on truth and morality doesn't just happen in specific classes. The stench of pro-"gay" indoctrination permeates the entire cirriculum. In fact, it's obviously a stated, proud policy. Anyone keeping their kids in public screwels in MASS (or in California, for that matter) is playing Russian roulette with their kids.
Let me and Scripter know if you want on/off this pinglist.
No, There just "Two consenting adults" in the privacy of their own bedrooms!
When are people going to realize the truth? Their real goal is to indoctrinate the children into believing there is "nothing wrong" with the perverse ideology of homomarriage, And sodomy.
It has a name, it's called the religion of "Moral Relativism". It's taught at all levels. My Kid had it in 7th grade in his "English Class".
Yikes!
WhooHoo...Red Sox just won!
me too.
i know that this thread is about the teaching of homosexuality in public schools, but there are a whole lot of things taught in my school district to my kids that i disagree with. this is just one of many. fortunately, homosexuality is not applauded (yet) in my school district, but manifestdestiny has been replaced with the theory that columbus brought much evil to the native americans....all religions are studied, except christianity, evolution is sold as a theory not as an hypothesis ...
sorry for the rant and going off on a tangent
Enlighten me, [Moral Relativism] As in My morals may or may not be relative to your morals?? Just like to know what it's all about for future references. I'm starting to hear the term a lot these days.
http://www.moral-relativism.com/
Moral relativism is the view that ethical standards, morality, and positions of right or wrong are culturally based and therefore subject to a person's individual choice. We can all decide what is right for ourselves. You decide what's right for you, and I'll decide what's right for me. Moral relativism says, "It's true for me, if I believe it."
NAMBLA uses moral relativism to justify their disgusting and criminal practices. In essence, it goes back to the serpent whispering, "You shall be as gods," because a god can decide for himself questions of right and wrong.
"And leave the rest of us alone."
Absolutely. They go on and on about more money for education, when we already spend several times an ammount that would be sufficient, if they weren't wasting it on this kind of insanity.
We need to abolish the DOE, outlaw the NEA, and fire everybody except classroom teachers, nurses, janitors, lunch ladies, and principals and assistant principals. And we need to make darn sure there's no excess there, either.
Principals can be accountable to locally elected, unpaid school boards, and that's all the bureaucracy we need.
The "religion" of "Moral Relativism" means there is NO Absolute right or wrong. Murder might be OK in one culture but not in another. Torture is OK in some but not others. Abortion is OK if depends on whether she thinks it is "her" own body and NOT two persons.
I'ts all about common sense vs. liberal "theory".
My kids know about all this stuff. They don't do drugs, have had several "gay'les" teachers. They are saavy, spot gays and lesbians a mile away. This is nothing new. We have helped them put it in the right perspective.
Most of the kids laugh and mock the gay,les teachers behind their backs. Bad stuff happens. My kids have two supportive parents and a decent self image. Dealing with it just fine.
My daughters kindegarten teacher was gay. My sons fifth grade teacher was gay. Both kids had gay coaches in marching band, and lesbian in P.E.
It is life today. School is prepratory for life. Right wrong or otherwise, my kids I think are well rounded, not gay or les, and smart as can be. I'm proud of them. I do not have control over who the school dist. hires, I just deal with it.
Other options, homeschool your kids, shelter them, and when they become of age, they will still have to deal with the real world.
It is more important that they have an intact family life. Parents staying together and peaceful constructive home life. That's my opinion and experience, take it or leave it.
Read Orwell's book 1984>>>
"Not merely the validity of experience but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense". George Orwell - 1984. On the Thought Police.
This story is sickening......to think that this was really done in classrooms.............
It's not really a tangent, it's just part of the same continuum. The basis being that there are no moral absolutes, there is not "real" truth, it's all relative, and nothing has any objective reality.
Except, of course, the leftist world view.
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