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To: Polycarp
The "mothers" will not be attending the school, however.

If the little girl qualifies for admission otherwise, and of course it is possible that she does not--but if she does, I have to wonder what SHE has done to be denied your church's educational opportunities.

I'm NOT saying the state should force them to admit her. I just think it's a terrible thing for any church to condemn a child for having bad parents, when they could give her a chance to overcome that.

Smacks of the concept of the unwanted bastard throw-away child.
44 posted on 08/30/2003 12:25:54 PM PDT by ChemistCat (Focused, Relentless Charity Beats Random Acts of Kindness.)
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To: ChemistCat
I just think it's a terrible thing for any church to condemn a child for having bad parents, when they could give her a chance to overcome that.

It is the "parents" of this child who are causing harm to her by openly living in a continuous state of mortal sin, thereby contradicting the Faith and morals of the Church - and teaching the child as she grows to do the same. Under these circumstances, the school would have little hope in helping the child "overcome that".

Education of any child is first and foremost the responsibility of parents who head the family. Any school, public or private, should be seen as ancillary to the family. A Catholic education is supposed to be just that. It is meant to teach not only reading, writing, math, etc., but to help instill the Faith and morals and example of virtuous living according to the decrees of God. In a word: Holiness. The eternal salvation of souls is paramount.

The disciplinary stand that the Church takes with parents of children as in this case, is meant to call them back to the fullness of Truth through conversion and repentance. The choice is theirs. The Church can't force them to accept it. For the sake of their souls, and that of their child, the Church can only hope that they turn from pride to penance.

46 posted on 08/30/2003 12:46:28 PM PDT by TotusTuus
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To: ChemistCat
Smacks of the concept of the unwanted bastard throw-away child.

So we must destroy the innocence and faith of hundreds of other heterosuxal and decent Catholic parents' children in that school in order to accomodate the cynical whim of a lesbian agenda driven couple, who are using "their" daughter to drive their agenda against their only viable enemy in America, the Catholic Church?

Bullshit.

48 posted on 08/30/2003 1:13:48 PM PDT by Polycarp ("If God does not exist, everything is permitted" - Father Felix Lubyxsynsky)
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To: ChemistCat
I just think it's a terrible thing for any church to condemn a child for having bad parents, when they could give her a chance to overcome that.

I, too, feel sorry for the kid--but your analysis has glossed over a few distinctions, the most important of which is that the school is NOT condemning, nor punishing, the child for the 'sins of her parents.' Rather, they simply denied admittance.

The child will have a fine education at the local public school. She has not been denied an education, nor has she gained a red-letter LESBIAN CHILD tattoo on her forehead.

See my post above for the other practical problem her admittance would bring.

60 posted on 08/30/2003 4:12:53 PM PDT by ninenot (Democrats make mistakes. RINOs don't correct them.--Chesterton (adapted by Ninenot))
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To: ChemistCat
Ther is no "right" to force a private Catholic school to admit a student.
What part of "private" do you not understand?
96 posted on 08/30/2003 7:38:31 PM PDT by sarasmom (Punish France, Ignore Germany, Forgive Russia. Canada-well they ARE mostly French)
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To: ChemistCat
Another non-Catholic trying to set the admission policies for Catholic schools. Honestly, there isn't a difference between you or the lesbo parents in this matter, in either case as outsiders you should MIND YOUR OWN DAMNED BUSINESS.
134 posted on 08/31/2003 9:46:47 AM PDT by Conservative til I die (They say anti-Catholicism is the thinking man's anti-Semitism; that's an insult to thinking men)
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To: ChemistCat
The "mothers" will not be attending the school, however. If the little girl qualifies for admission otherwise, and of course it is possible that she does not--but if she does, I have to wonder what SHE has done to be denied your church's educational opportunities."

The Catholic Church teaches that homosexual acts are unnatural, sinful and evil, so a Catholic school is not a suitable place for the "daughter" of two avowed homosexual perverts to get her education. One must ask the question of why these two lesbians would want to bring their daughter to a school that they know will teach the child that her parents are "intrinsicly disordered", (sinful and perverted)? Don't they care about this girl's feelings? The whole thing stinks of a setup, with the poor little girl being used as the human bait. This reveals just how evil these two lesbian perverts are.

Public schools cater to the needs of homosexual perverts and their families, let them take this poor child there. If you feel badly for this child, as I do, you need to go to the origin of this child's problem, namely, her being raised by two perverted women who cannot by God's design bring forth a child as a result of their lesbian sexual activity. My heart breaks for this little girl that they use as bait.

145 posted on 08/31/2003 11:23:16 AM PDT by TheCrusader
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