[BlackElk]

Since these two are bound and determined to make a spectacle of themselves and their Catholic school in their defiance of the teaching authority of the Church, I would suggest that the school help them by denying a diploma to senior Hope Decker and bid her goodbye and to expel sophomore Tiffany Wright. Let them take their apparent or actual lesbian relationship to the gummint skewels which proudly subsidize such nonsense and immorality.

Secondly, who died and left these two as gods to sit in judgment on the decisions of their CATHOLIC school to abide by Catholicism and reject their perversions??? 15 0r 16 year old sophomore Tiffany Wright apparently imagines that the Church and its institutions are some sort of democracies and that her opinions as to the governance of her CATHOLIC high school have some sort of standing and some sort of relevance. Ummmm, Ms. Wright, the Church is not McDonald's. You do it our way or you get your insubordinate backside out of here. There is no third way. AND, Tiffany, dear, can you spell Moral Relativism?

Also note that these are two more instances of giving kids a bad start in life by naming them fashionably rather than after saints which was once the Catholic tradition. Unless maybe I missed references in Butler's Lives of the Saints to Saint Hope and Saint Tiffany.

Also, spoiling them rotten does not help them one bit.

Ohhhh, golly gee willikers, there goes that elk again being soooo judgmental!

[Haiku Guy]

Catholic school.

‘Nuff said.

On to the next faux “outrage”.

[Dr. Sivana]

“the Church is not McDonald’s. You do it our way or you get your insubordinate backside out of here”

For the record, Elk, it is Burger King, not McDonald’s, that promotes the slogan “Have it your way.”

[Tax-chick]

Names from the virtues have a long history in Christianity. I knew a number of “Hopes” and “Esperanzas” when I was a girl. Although Tiffany’s parents probably don’t know it, the name is said to be a version of “Theophania,” which has long been in use for Greek speakers and in Spanish cultures, as well as enjoying a bit of a Victorian fad.

Given that all sexual activity for unmarried people is sinful, I question the appropriateness, for a Catholic school, of events which students attend as romantic pairs. If students bought their tickets for a dance and arrived as individuals, there would be no need for rules about who was an acceptable “date” for whom.

[papertyger]

these are two more instances of giving kids a bad start in life by naming them fashionably rather than after saints which was once the Catholic tradition.

Yeah, just what we need an entire student body composed of Marys, Katherine's, and a smattering of MaryKatherines, just to keep it fresh....

;o)

[ElkGroveDan]

who died and left these two as gods to sit in judgment on the decisions of their CATHOLIC school to abide by Catholicism and reject their perversions??? 15 0r 16 year old sophomore Tiffany Wright apparently imagines that the Church and its institutions are some sort of democracies and that her opinions as to the governance of her CATHOLIC high school have some sort of standing and some sort of relevance. Ummmm, Ms. Wright, the Church is not McDonald's. You do it our way or you get your insubordinate backside out of here. There is no third way.

Always good to see you resurface to share your wit and wisdom..