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Lesbians sue Catholic school for refusing daughter
CW News ^ | 8/6/04 | CW News

Posted on 08/06/2004 8:52:40 PM PDT by freedom44

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To: yowie
You know, that comment is just over the line. I know a lesbian couple, and I do NOT believe they are molesting the kids from a previous marriage of one of them.

There's no reason to believe that lesbians and homosexuals physically molest THEIR OWN KIDS at much higher rates than heterosexual couples.

61 posted on 01/26/2007 6:15:09 AM PST by Texas_shutterbug
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To: hunter112

"Do you think that they haven't explained to this child, much as interracial parents have for decades, "There are people who don't like us. You need to tell us if something harmful happens, but you will probably not be able to change those peoples' minds about us."

That's pretty much what Christian parents have to tell their kids when they go into liberal government schools. And lets not even get started on what's happened in the colleges.

A private school should have the right to accept and decline students as they see fit. These women appear to be gold-diggers at the expense of their daughter. I'm sure they've carefully selected a school which will have a court that will support their ideology about homosexuality even though the voting population would support the church's right to teach Biblical doctrine.


62 posted on 01/26/2007 6:23:08 AM PST by Sweet Hour of Prayer
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To: GeronL
If private schools ever get government funds through vouchers, they will destroy private education this way.

Exactly. Whole scale vouchers would destroy private education.

63 posted on 01/26/2007 6:27:24 AM PST by SoftballMominVA
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To: TheCrusader

http://www.cafepress.com/blamebush.54954280

Spring line of clothing same-sex parents' cute little political statements.


64 posted on 01/26/2007 8:55:20 AM PST by YCTHouston
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To: hunter112

"late, we're not going back to a time when we pretended that homosexuals didn't exist. "

Can't we, please.

Btw, I'd love to see what article of Church doctrine prevented Catholics from attending protestant funerals or weddings b/f Vatican II. Perhaps your parents didn't want to go and gave you a likely excuse.

You sound like a lot of disgruntled fallen away Catholics who are all too eager to see someone "stick it" to the Church because life didn't turn out like you planned.


65 posted on 01/26/2007 9:01:05 AM PST by YCTHouston
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To: Texas_shutterbug
But marriage isn't unbiblical.

The Bible teaches us that those who divorce and remarry are committing adultery against their former spouses. The Catholic Church does not allow divorced people to marry in the Church or accept sacraments. Should the school hold the same standards to these people as they do towards homosexuals?

66 posted on 01/26/2007 9:47:00 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
Not necessarily. When ten heterosexual couples walk into a room, not one of them will stand out as "flaunting" the church's teachings, not for the kids, anyway. Besides, there's such a thing as annulments in the Catholic Church.

When a lesbian couples presents themself as a couple, there is no other conclusion that the children could reach other than that they are a lesbian couple - which is against Catholic teaching.

We're all sinners, but the question is whether or not the church or school will accept the "flaunting" of sin as if it had no consequences.

67 posted on 01/26/2007 9:58:00 AM PST by Texas_shutterbug
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To: weegee

How about a church that refuses to rent itself out.

I can imagine homosexuals will demand the right to rent a church in order to defile it with their solimization ceremonies.

Refuse such a bare bones rental? then you tax exempt status goes by by. How many municipalities would just LOVE to tax church propert at the full frieght commercial rate? answer ALL of them.


68 posted on 01/26/2007 10:12:39 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: freedom44

I thought lesbians were homeschoolers.


69 posted on 01/26/2007 10:16:43 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: CindyDawg
IMO they should have informed of doctrine and took the kid though.

That would have been a BIG, BIG mistake. Once the child is enrolled, then any HINT of biblical teaching regarding homosexuality would have been grounds for a bigger, badder, more lucrative lawsuit - which might have stood a better chance of winning. It's terrible to have to think that way, but that's the destination on this litigation freight train.

70 posted on 01/26/2007 10:21:34 AM PST by MortMan (Middle Age: When playing like a child makes you feel like an old man the next morning.)
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To: savagesusie

NOBODY files bar complaints against these lawyers.

Perhaps what is needed is a group/society/organization that is dedicated to filing bar complaints against these types of lawyers.

Fill up the regulatory workload investigating these lawyers and perhaps the Bar's will start to investigate these anti-american types.


71 posted on 01/26/2007 10:21:36 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: freedom44

I don't know about a matter of legal doctrine, but it doesn't seem right to punish the child for the sins of the parent. The kid didn't do anything wrong or immoral.


72 posted on 01/26/2007 10:22:40 AM PST by zbigreddogz
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To: zbigreddogz
That's not the point. The school isn't punishing the child - it is protecting the other children from observing a lesbian couple as if homosexuality were normal. If this was a high school, school officials might have reacted diferently.

Catholic teaching is that parents are primary educators of their kids. In an above post I mentioned that the church normally doesn't baptize kids if the parents don't agree to raise the child in the church.

It's the same situation here. When you are flaunting your disregard for a teaching of the church, how can you then agree that you will abide by its teachings when teaching your child?

73 posted on 01/26/2007 10:29:08 AM PST by Texas_shutterbug
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I am SUPPORT THEM! :)

If you are going HOMOSEXUALS and sex abusers of every ilk.... WHY NOT LESBIANS?

Read and learn. It does take too much reading before you realize thise "bishops," and by extension the church, is not so "holly" afer all...



74 posted on 01/26/2007 10:32:02 AM PST by ElPatriota (Let's not forget, we are all still friends - basically :) - despite our differences)
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To: Texas_shutterbug
That's not the point. The school isn't punishing the child - it is protecting the other children from observing a lesbian couple as if homosexuality were normal.

No, the school IS punishing the child, that's obvious, it's reasonable to say that it's the lesser of two evils, that it's WORTH IT to protect the other kids, but let's not pretend the kid isn't being penalized because of the sins of their parents, because clearly, they are.

I'd say the kids need to grow up. Like it or not, homosexuality exists, and you have to deal with it. Likewise, the kid who grows up in such an environment is in need of good religious instruction, and it seems to defy the mission of the church to deny them that.

75 posted on 01/26/2007 10:40:09 AM PST by zbigreddogz
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To: zbigreddogz

sorry but the child is in a homosexual indoctrination environment and this private school is right to make a judgment.

This is no differnet than private schools which exclude children with HIV.


76 posted on 01/26/2007 10:44:11 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: zbigreddogz
We've killed civilians in Iraq without intentionally doing so. There are unintended consequences for many actions and decisions. That doesn't necessarily make it the wrong decision.

It is NOT obvious to me at all that the school is punishing the child.

It is pretty obvious, though, that the "parents" are instigators who want to push their beliefs where they are not wanted.

77 posted on 01/26/2007 10:51:40 AM PST by Texas_shutterbug
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To: freedom44
because the lesbian relationship conflicted with Church doctrine, and could be confusing to other pupils

s/confusing/scandalous/

78 posted on 01/26/2007 10:52:38 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: zbigreddogz

Do you really think those dykes wanted their kid to recieve a good, wholesome Catholic education? This is obviously another set-up lawssuit. In case you were too busy to notice the last four decades, the Left uses the courts to force their "private choices" down our throats. Thank God the Diocese is standing up to it.


79 posted on 01/26/2007 10:53:08 AM PST by YCTHouston
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To: YCTHouston
Do you really think those dykes wanted their kid to recieve a good, wholesome Catholic education?

1. Calling them names is not necessary. There is no reason to be nasty just because you disagree with their lifestyle.

2. Your question is irrelevant. The kid needs good religious education regardless of if they really want her to have it or not. The Church dropped the ball IMHO here, they could have been a counter influence that could have helped the child a lot.

80 posted on 01/26/2007 11:00:25 AM PST by zbigreddogz
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