CATHOLIC School Refuses Admittance To An Eight-Year-Old Boy Because His Parents Are LESBIANS

[Segami]

Even the Biblical Lepers were treated with more respect and dignity by Christ than the way this Roman Catholic Church is discriminating against an eight year old simply because his parents are Lesbians. What hypocrisy.:puke:



" A Roman Catholic school in Massachusetts has “withdrawn its acceptance of an 8-year-old boy with lesbian parents, saying their relationship was ‘in discord’ with church teachings.” “I’m accustomed to discrimination, I suppose, at my age and my experience as a gay woman,” one of the boy’s mothers said. “But I didn’t expect it against my child.” She also noted that she thought the church might accept them, since they take children whose parents are divorced, which is also against the Catholic church’s teachings:


“There are many different non-traditional families that fall under the umbrella of the Catholic Church, and I guess we assumed we would fall under one of those,” she said.

The woman and her partner filled out both their names during the application process — which asked for the names of “parents” rather than mother and father — and attended an open house together at the school in February. “We weren’t hiding,” she said.


This story is similar to a recent incident in Colorado. There, a Catholic school decided to kick out a preschool student, saying the child “would not be readmitted for kindergarten in the fall” because his parents are lesbians. (HT: AMERICAblog)


Sign Catholic United's petition asking "Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley not to allow discrimination in his Catholic schools."

<http://www.catholics-united.org/cardinal-omalley-petition>

[Bill McBlueState]

1. yep, the Catholic church doesn't like lesbians

I don't think anyone should be surprised by this. I'm not sure why parents would want to send their kid to a school that has that attitude about their relationship.

[Segami]

5. The church's reason for ' withdrawing its acceptance ' of the eight year old boy

was because " their relationship was ‘in discord’ with church teachings.”

I wonder HOW MANY women from that school are practicing birth-control methods outside of the church-accepted ' rhythm method '? Isn't this greatly " IN DISCORD " with church teachings?

How about confirmed adulters?

[Dappleganger]

2. Why would they want to give money

to a church who harbors pedophiles?

[sui generis]

3. who cares - it's a catholic school.

if they're willing to harm a child because of the church's stance on the child's parents, the hell with them. They are clearly NOT good role models for a child's education.

And they are irrelevant.

[Tailormyst]

4. I hope they get zero public dollars

[spartan61]

6. I find this so disgusting.

I taught first grade for many, many years and one year I had a beautiful little girl named Emily who had "two mothers." There was so much love and caring in this family. All children should be so lucky. This family could have taught many families how to raise their children with love and security for the child, especially those families with a mom and dad. You know the kind. The families where the dad drinks and then abuses his wife and children or where the mom and dad both are strung out on drugs or where the mom and dad have multiple affairs. Of course, the Catholic Church has looked the other way when the priests were sexually abusing children. Such hypocrisy!! These are just two of the many reasons why I am no longer Catholic.

[TwilightGardener]

7. That is sad--the child's family circumstances should have no bearing

on where he is educated.

[snooper2]

8. Kid would do better going to a public school,

instead of the continual brainwashing he would receive from that establishment.

[ZombieHorde]

9. Hate group. nt

[RKP5637]

10. This is sad, but I'm not surprised. I'm not a fan of organizations that

discriminate... but I would never send my kid to a school of indoctrination to begin with...

[old mark]

11. I attended catholic schools k-12 at my parents demand - I stopped believing in any of it around 11

or 12...I have come to hate the catholic church as an organization and I feel they would be much better off using the public school system. Thanks for the oppirtunity to sign the petition and tell the bishop what a bigoted nasty minded old bastard he really is. I enjoyed it.

mark

[Bluebear]

12. God is love.