Posted on 08/18/2019 6:57:09 AM PDT by marshmallow
Action could 'upend religious freedom' across the Americas
WASHINGTON (ChurchMilitant.com) - An under-the-radar sexual orientation discrimination case is threatening to undermine religious freedom across the Western Hemisphere.
Years in the making, the case springs from Chile, where an open lesbian is challenging her bishop's decision that she cannot serve as a religion instructor owing to her refusal to abide by Church teaching on sexuality.
It involves two components of the Inter-American Human Rights System: the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, based in Washington, D.C., and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, based in San José, Costa Rica.
In Chile, ecclesial authorities are required by law to certify religious educators as fit to teach theology. If a teacher is deemed no longer suitable to instruct students on matters on religion, certification is withdrawn.
For two decades, Sandra Pavez worked as a Catholic religion teacher in the diocese of San Bernardo. But in 2007, diocesan officials learned that she had publicly entered into a same-sex relationship, causing scandal among her colleagues and students. They met with Pavez multiple times, warning that if she persisted in flouting Church teaching, they would be forced to revoke her certification.
Pavez refused their appeals, and her certification was rescinded. By law, she could no longer teach religion, but her school retained her as a member of its education staff. What's more, it promoted her to inspector general, a position of leadership.
But Pavez wasn't satisfied with this. She filed suit against the diocese of San Bernardo, claiming — falsely — that she had been fired.
"It cannot be that a person who wants to talk about God is silenced by having a different sexual orientation. I will fight until the end so that there is a precedent in history," Pavez later told Chilean media.
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Non breeders are just like wooden nickels.
“It cannot be that a person who wants to talk about God is silenced by having a different sexual orientation..
AND IT’S NOT.
Go do it in a million other ####ing places.
Like Tony Soprano said “I didn’t make the rules. They’ve always been there!”
I have NEVER thought of belonging to a group that was voluntary and had numerous rules I didn’t agree with.
What would be the point?
I WANT! I DEMAND! GIMME, GIMME. I am sick of the whiners, complainers, self-imposed victims I just want scream out sometimes to the next one I meet - go frig yourself and get out my damn face!
Sooner or later, we MUST destroy the notion that there is such a thing as constitutional”gay rights”. Either they win by knocking out the Bible and freedom of religion and speech, or we win by knocking out “gay rights”.
Each person has the right and freedom to choose and discriminate against anyone else they so choose. Either we restore the notion of individual freedom which the feds have no constitutional power to stop, or the Left will forcibly stop us from exercising our individual God-given freedoms.
You’re Male or Female so you are covered
Boy you made my day :)
Every now and then I get a cohesive thought!
Well, since my Native Name is “Day Brightener”, I am very validated and touched by your reply! :-)
I don’t know if you’re being serious or not and I am very gullible :)
Is that a Native American name?
And yeah ANYONE who says they don’t like a compliment is a liar! :)
What’s not to like?
Yes. I have a full-blood MiQ-Mac Great Grandfather, so I am a bit more authentic than the (UGH) senator from my state.
I looked it up. Cool.
Full blood great grandfather. That’s pretty darn recent in genealogy terms.
Yeah she’s out there :)
Unlike Lizzy’s claims, our parents NEVER mentioned this when we were growing up, as “inter-racial” heritage was once frowned upon. We found out later during the nineties when there was a genealogy craze going on. In those days, one had to go to the various city halls and parishes and do ACTUAL research into birth and baptismal records. (No Internet, No DNA testing Companies) My grandmother’s Canadian birth certificate had the French word “sauvage” on it, meaning “SAVAGE”. Yeah, that’s what the oh-so-civilized Canadians called an innocent baby who was part Indian.
So I never bought Lizzy’s line about her family BOASTING about being “Cherokee” when she was a child.
Leftist judicial bodies are constantly trying to legislate from the bench. It’s just one more tool in the lefty playbook.
It was bad enough that the LBGT agenda turned secular law into enforcing the religion of secular humanism in secular settings, it now wants to see its writ imposed in religious settings as well - making other religious beliefs effectively illegal if they not go along with the religion of secular humanism.
Much of support for the LGBTQ movement is not based on love of homosexuals, but hatred of Christians. By equating homosexual BEHAVIOR with racial physical characteristics, the left has found the perfect way to demonize, marginalize, and eventually criminalize Christians.
WOW
That’s pretty backwards, savage.
And that is a lot of effort.
It takes almost no effort today and I don’t do it :)
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