Posted on 06/22/2016 7:27:00 PM PDT by ebb tide
Two teens raised by a lesbian couple and attending a Catholic school in Edmonton, Alberta have complained against a religion teacher for allegedly telling the students in class that homosexuals can’t reproduce and that they are not married according to Catholic teaching.
The Edmonton Catholic school board has now removed the teacher from the school - temporarily, at least for the time being - and launched an investigation into the allegations.
When students Tayler and Tyrus Allen told their mom, Elyssa Allen, and her partner Leigh Sylvester, to whom she is legally married, about the class given by 32-year veteran teacher Albert Felicitas at Archbishop O'Leary High School last month, the couple decided to take action, telling the teens to complain to the school principal, reported Edmonton Journal.
Allen said that while she is aware that the Catholic Church does not recognize her marriage, she "can’t accept such overt anti-gay messages being taught," in the words of the Journal.
A number of Catholic students also from the school told the Edmonton Journal that the words of their religious teacher about homosexuality got them “fairly angry” and that they “didn’t sit well with me.”
“It got me fairly angry. In these times, we should be able to accept that homosexuals do exist and they should be able to marry and do the same thing that straight couples do. It was very alarming,” said student Mario Bacic.
LifeSiteNews contacted Edmonton Archbishop Richard Smith, but spokeswoman Lorraine Turchansky said that the archbishop would not be making any comment on the matter.
Felicitas said that the complaint about his class was a “total shock” to him.
“I’ve taught the course many times … I have received glowing evaluations from students,” he said.
Felicitas said he was simply teaching the position on marriage and sexuality as put forward by the Canadian Catholic bishops in a document.
Felicitas also protested the interpretation being put on his remarks, including claims that he said homosexuals don't deserve love.
"Everyone is made for love and to be loved and everyone is capable of love, no matter what gender choice you have,” he said.
When the Edmonton Journal asked students about their opinion of the teacher, some complained about his “hatred of abortion, even in cases of rape.”
The Catholic Church teaches that since every life is sacred, and abortion is wrong in any instance, including in the case of rape.
When LifeSiteNews contacted the board on Friday to ask for details, spokeswoman Lori Nagy replied that the investigation had been completed, but it would not release any findings.
“As with all personnel matters, we respect the privacy of the teacher involved and do not release findings publicly,” she said.
Attempts by LifeSiteNews to reach Felicitas were unsuccessful.
Felicitas told the Edmonton Journal two weeks ago that being a math teacher in today’s pro-homosexual climate was safer than being a religion teacher.
“Teaching religion, if you really want to teach it properly, it’s risky. I’d rather teach math because five times five is always going to be 25,” he said.
That still might be true for Common Core, but it will take you 3 weeks to get there.
The Edmonton Catholic school board has now removed the teacher from the school - temporarily, at least for the time being - and launched an investigation into the allegations.
Why do they need an investigation? Everybody knows it's true.
Homosexuals can't reproduce (without outside interference)
They are not married according to the Catholic church.
Thanks for the info. Guess I need to do some research so I know what I’m commenting on before I let my total ignorance show.
In the meantime my neighbor has a son who teaches in a Baptist church school and we were discussing this article. During a Bible study class just before the end of school the issue of homosexuality came up, her son read the scripture relating to the issue, the child told her parents, both men, and they were not happy with the statement from the Bible and are now suing.
Imagine if it had been mentioned that unrepentant homosexuals will not inherit the Kingdom but will share the fate of all other unrepentant persons including murderers and swindlers?
Suing God for putting it in the Bible? :)
They don’t want their kids to go to school with black kids.
Until Big Brother declares it to be 26.
These students will some day have the opportunity to argue directly with Jesus
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If they don’t accept Christ as their Savior they will be meeting Him under the worst adverse conditions. There will be no opportunity to argue.
I have a fantasy project to demand that Juvenal be removed from the public library ( He's the "Bread and Circuses" guy ) ... From Satire 2...
132 "I have a ceremony to attend," quoth one, "at dawn to-morrow, in the Quirinal valley." "What is the occasion?" "No need to ask: a friend is taking to himself a husband; quite a small affair." Yes, and if we only live long enough, we shall see these things done openly: people will wish to see them reported among the news of the day. Meanwhile these would-be brides have one great trouble: they can bear no children wherewith to keep the affection of their husbands; well has nature done in granting to their desires no power over their bodies. They die unfertile; naught avails them the medicine-chest of the bloated Lyde, or to hold out their hands to the blows of the swift-footed Luperci!
Two thousand years ago, my friends! Two thousand years! Some things never change.
‘...didn’t sit well with me.’
That’s the level of reasoning we are dealing with: selfish, shallow, violent. The student will have a rough life until he or she admits a mistake or two.
A spark is all it takes to enrage a crazy person.
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>> “I’d rather teach math because five times five is always going to be 25,” he said.” <<
Until common core came along!
‘How many fingers, Winston?’
homosexuals can’t produce while practicing homosexuality...period..
and, why do Catholic schools let non-Catholics attend at all if they students aren’t going to listen and behave and accept...
That's what you think...
Actually, if this were the case, no one would ever hear about it.
Because they have an agenda?
I suspect that the Catholic schools here in the US aren’t far behind.
Agreed, and even some “conservatives”, are sadly in that mix who are more concerned about money or some other self serving motivation.
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