Posted on 08/06/2004 8:52:40 PM PDT by freedom44
Eugene, Oregon, Aug. 06 (LifesiteNews.com/CWN) - A lesbian couple has sued a Catholic school and its parish after a daughter was refused admittance.
After describing her irregular domestic arrangement to school principal Dianne Bert last year, Lee Inkmann was told her daughter would not be allowed to attend O'Hara Catholic School, because the lesbian relationship conflicted with Church doctrine, and could be confusing to other pupils. Inkmann and partner Trish Wilson are suing for $550,000 in damages, naming the school principal, as well as Father Mark Bachmeier, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church, in their claim.
Portland Archdiocese spokesman Bud Bunce told the Associated Press that the "archdiocese plans a vigorous defense ... it is believed that this situation was handled appropriately. The lawsuit filed includes numerous false statements of fact, and is believed to be totally without merit."
Thanks for flame-bait, Mr. DU-troll-doing-a-very-bad-impersonation-of-a-Freeper-Guy.
I believe when this first hit the news, before the lawsuit, it turned out that all familes enrolling in the school had to agree with Church teachings. And they had to sign something to this effect.
Otherwise, the values would be contradicted at home.
They knew about this before the chold was enrolled.
The Church allows divorced people to receive the Sacraments. Remarried people without annulments not living as brother and sister are a different case.
The Church us nade up of humans, thus sinners. The Catholic Church is holy, unless you think the Apostles were not holy due to the existance of Judas.
us nade = is made
I directed that to your plea that we go back to pretending homosexuals didn't exist. Once upon a time, we pretended that all kinds of things didn't exist. My comment is squarely on that point.
I don't know why this thread got bumped back to life - it happens fairly often on FR - but I can't take too seriously the complaints of anyone so detached from reality as to equate the Civil Rights struggle with the radical Homosexual crusade to impose their lifestyles on the rest of us via malicious lawsuits.
I seem to remember the same criticism leveled at the civil rights movement for lawsuits related to public accomodation, and school bussing. But, you believe that homosexuals fully choose their orientation, while black people don't choose their skin color. I just know that everyone with a religion chooses it, and I really don't care which one they choose. Nor does the Constitution.
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