Posted on 12/14/2011 5:04:48 PM PST by Morgana
BROKEN HILL, Australia, December 14, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Catholic bishop in Australia has ordered one of his schools to overturn a decision refusing admission to a girl whose ‘parents’ are in a homosexual relationship, calling the decision “absolutely appalling.”
“[There is] no way in the world that we can persecute a child because of what their parents did,” Bishop Kevin Manning, apostolic administrator for the Diocese of Wilcannia-Forbes, told The Australian on Wednesday in response to media reports that the girl’s application for 2012 to Sacred Heart Primary School in Broken Hill had been rejected. “You can’t discriminate against a child on the grounds that the parents are in a homosexual relationship,” he continued. “You are vesting the sins of the parents on the child - it’s quite wrong.”
Though the bishop ordered the school to offer a spot to the girl, the homosexual couple have rejected it. The incident prompted a member of the New South Wales Green party to call for an end to exemptions for the Church under the country’s “anti-discrimination” laws.
Because of the exemptions, “schools such as Sacred Heart in Broken Hill can turn around and victimise a child because it has two parents who are living in a same-sex relationship,” MP John Kaye told ABC News. “It’s a loophole that is an offence against the society that celebrates diversity.”
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I put to you the the two sodomites and the Godless media are using their child to attack the church. That’s the only story and the truth here.
Liberal social engineering like gay marriage and domestic gay partnershops take a tremendous emotional toll on the kids who are FORCED to live in these relationships. It’s like the lesbian who prodded her child to confront Michelle Bachmann last week on the campaign trail. Heatrbnreaking.
First, the "parents" refers to biological man/woman creation of a human being, not an adopted sex deviate pair who are gonna indoctrinate a child into sex perversion, provide NO TRADITIONAL FAMILY VALUES, GUIDANCE, ETC.
There is NO WAY the raising of a child in a sex-deviate household is anything more than Child Abuse (mentally, if not physically), and causes irrerperable harm.
Hey Bishop, you also have to remember you have other children in that school too! They should be protected from that sort of crap by the school don’t you think? Putz!
Direct parental involvement is mandatory, and if the applicant student's parents are unwilling or unable to show active membership/communion or support of the schools religious doctrines...chances are very high the application will be denied.
There is a difference in private versus public education....
instead this bishop is going to persecute the 99.999% of the other children and thier families.
If my kids went to this PRIVATE school, I would demand my children have no contact with this child and extension its mother and sex partner.
failing that, private schools are a competition. In this case the bishop failed.
I agree.
Can you imagine the desperation of the poor child when the truth first dawns on her about her “parents”?
something about money changers and father’s house comes to mind on that issue.
this is a single mother.
the child will ask “where is my daddy?”
is this cruel woman going to say, I decided you don’t need one? I prevented you from knowing your father?
Any bets this Bishop Kevin Manning is a flaming sodomite?
Except of course when it comes to abortion,then we go way beyond mere persecution.
Private schools by their nature can descriminate...poor child will hear her “parents” are unrepentant public sinners...How coes that help the child. These people use “their” children as pawns to a political agenda..disgusting and the reason they want to adopt it seems...
“Direct parental involvement is mandatory, and if the applicant student’s parents are unwilling or unable to show active membership/communion or support of the schools religious doctrines...chances are very high the application will be denied.
There is a difference in private versus public education.... “
This is so true. I still feel sorry for the kid. The child did not ask for this and will be denied a chance for religious instruction in a Catholic school because her parents made a conscience choice to go to hell.
No child asks for their parents.
I feel sorry for this child because her parents set her up as a pawn in an ugly game they are playing.
I also feel sorry for all the Christians this Catholic Bishop is setting up as pawns for his own private ugly games.
Jesus Christ will judge all the adults involved.
I’m guessing he will judge the Bishop harshly.
Let me finish that sentence for you.
...to be that the homosexual couple is selfish, self-centered, self aggrandizing, morally bankrupt and indifferent to the needs of that child that they were, unfortunately, allowed to adopt.
Do I have it right?
Pingout for tomorrow.
sounds good
I’m not eactly sure why Lloyd sent me this link but I’ll toss in my two cents.
The Bishop is absolutely right on doctrine when he says at the sins of the parents are not vested in the child. As well, the child does not appear to have made a conscious and willfull decision to buck church doctrine in a way that should lead to exclusion.
Catholic educational standards usually require education in the Catholic faith but do not require practice. Catholic schools usually accept children of any faith and “heathen” seems as good as Moslem as far as at goes. The education might even be beneficial for the child and lead her to closely consider her own life.
It’s hard for me to think that attending a fine catholic school would be anything but good for the child.
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