Posted on 03/12/2010 10:20:47 AM PST by Blue Turtle
"What would Jesus do?" That's what many people in Boulder, Colo., are asking after a Catholic elementary school in the city expelled two children because their parents are lesbians.
The conflict in the Roman Catholic Church over homosexuality has come to loggerheads in the community, with the church standing by its belief that marriage is a pact between a man and a woman while opponents accuse it of failing to live up to Jesus’ mission of love and acceptance.
Sacred Heart of Jesus Church says it told the lesbian couple that their older child would be allowed to complete enrollment in kindergarten this year but would not be allowed to attend first grade in the fall. Their younger child will be allowed to finish preschool but can't enter kindergarten.
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I don't recall Jesus saying to throw God's Law out the window. He preached compassion. But He also held men to the Law.
They had to draw the line somewhere.
The queers need to go back in their closet where they belong.
Almost al Catholic Schools are subsidized by local parishes. Tuition does not cover all the expenses so the subsidy keeps enrollment steady. Usually, non-Catholics may attend but they have to pay the subsidy and sign releases about the Catholic foundation and the school abides by the teachings of the Church. Until the Church approves of gay relationships they are free to decide who can attend their schools.
For reasons that are completely outside the Church's control -- and are entirely within the control of those lesbian parents -- keeping kids like these out of a Catholic school is necessary for the school to protect other kids who might otherwise be influenced by this bizarre "family" arrangement.
Yes, we can’t afford to waste a perfectly good closed mind.
They dare to do it only because they know that they’ll have the support of the Anti Christian Lawyers Union.
The issue here is the very public (openly) issue of a highly controversial and fundamental tenant of the Catholic faith, that of same sex couple parenthood. A non-negotiable. A "don't ask, don't tell" policy is normally in place but unfortunately not available here.
I would personally use this same "opening rejecting" standard against Nazi Pelosi and other Catholic-in-name-only politicians to not only deny them communion but also excommunication. Many Bishops appear to be more 'pastoral' than I.
That's all.
Because the public schools in a particular area are usually very bad and the Catholic school offers a superior education. My niece (who is the daughter of a Presbyterian minister) was educated in Catholic schools.
keeping kids like these out of a Catholic school is necessary for the school to protect other kids who might otherwise be influenced by this bizarre “family” arrangement.
Most cheaters do not advertise their sin openly and publicly, nor demand that others accept it as ‘normal.’ It is between the parties and their God. Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.
A homosexual couple living together as a family do publicly proclaim their living in sin, as the Church sees it. As the lesbian women must know, that is exactly the way the Catholic Church views their chosen lifestyle. By registering the children in a Catholic school these lesbian mothers are demanding that the church school accept that, and the church school is saying no.
I feel sorry for the children who did not bring any of this on themselves, but they can be well educated in another school, private or public, which is run by an organization to which homosexual behavior and lifestyles are normal, and whose teachings will not create the conflict the children would experience between home and school.
That's all.
The school isn't there to provide a public service, function as a business, or serve as a charitable organization. It has a religious mission that is completely compromised when you allow students like this in the school. Once you allow kids like this into a Catholic school, the school then has to deal with the burden of identifying what kind of limitations are to be placed on the lesbian parents' interaction with other kids in the school.
The headlines make it seem as if the church has set out to punish these children. First off, a 4 and 5 year old have no concept. Secondly, the healines should read... "Lesbian Couple At Center of Catholic Education Dispute". This is about the two lesbians and not about the children. But this and many other articles want to embroil the children in the controversy and that is just not the case. The unfortunate thing is that the lesbians have deliberately opened these children up to a battle best left between them and the Church.
Watching Oreilly made my blood boil last night. His self-righteous attitude was way off the mark.
Did Jesus teach acceptance?
Yes but statements like “when you allow students LIKE THIS”
or “once you allow kids like THIS” sound as if the kids would have done anything wrong or are some kind of weird. And they have not!
Love and acceptance was NOT Jesus’s message.
Why are they the ones who try to define the “message”, twisting it into whatever suits their perversion?
Jesus also said Go and Sin no more....reckon they missed that part.
Sorry, but in the real world, a child is best served by having two loving, Heterosexual parents.
Having two mommies/daddies is a recipe for having your child made fun of/bullied by kids and that’s just how it is.
It is not the school “punishing” children, rather the “parents” for making their children a sacrifice to the gods of PoliticalCorrectness and their own sense of self-worth which is apparently derived from screaming their sexual preferences from the rooftop.
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