This area is mostly Protestant.
This is a young Diocese with Catholics making up about 3% of the population.
I'd bet the vast majority of the complainers aren't Catholic at all, but Protestants trying to force the Church to buy into their menagerie of viewpoints on this issue.
"I'd bet the vast majority of the complainers aren't Catholic at all . . ."
You make a good point. I'd be very surprised if even the majority of the teachers were Catholic much less the students. Jugis is a solid Bishop who seems like he's nobody's fool. I figure he'll blindside the smug "Professional Catholics" at some point.
I suspect there will be a consolidation of the schools in Charlotte with a commensurate reduction in the number of teachers and administrators.
I live in the South too, in an area where there weren’t very many Catholics during the late 19th and most of the 20th century, until the influx from the Northeast and the (less than orthodox) Midwest.There was a lot of intermarriage but of course, in earlier decades, Protestants had to promise to bring up the children as Catholic. And Catholic teaching was orthodox.
Unfortunately, as the Church stopped insisting on this doctrine and permitted mixed marriages without any requirement to bring up the children as Catholic, you had a lot of people who either wandered off to the Baptists because it was easier in their environment, or simply developed a kind of hybrid allegiance. And of course you had the people who Vatican II drove away, many of whom became Evangelicals.
So I don’t think there is any malice aforethought in the Protestant parents participating, and I don’t think they were necessarily the source of the problems. I read that there was some sort of gay advocacy group in Charlotte that seems to have spearheaded all of this with the assistance of a couple of parents and students and a lot of agitators. I don’t think the meeting was very well-controlled and I’m not sure that they checked to see who was entering.