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HARRISBURG, PA, December 17, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Pennsylvania lawmaker has proposed a bill that would forbid Catholic schools from enforcing the Catholic church's teachings on homosexuality in parochial schools, a measure its critics are calling “ludicrous” and “dangerous to basic human freedoms.” The bill gained new life after Holy Ghost Preparatory School in the Philadelphia suburb of Bensalem fired Michael Griffin, who taught French and Italian. Griffin lives in New Jersey, where a county superior court judge legalized same-sex “marriage” in September, a decision that stood after Republican Governor Chris Christie dropped his appeal. After the ruling, Griffin and...

Ex-Va. Teacher Sentenced to 25 Years for Child PornBy Melissa Mollet Thursday, May 26, 2011 Updated 9:08 PM EDT Former Manassas, Va., school teacher Kevin Ricks, who accepted a plea deal in March, has been sentenced to 25 years in jail for production and possession of child pornography. Prosecutors said he molested boys in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and Japan, typically getting them drunk and then assaulting them once they were unconscious. Ricks led a double life as a charismatic, successful and popular teacher and camp counselor but also had a dark side, prosecutors said. They point to journal entries,...

TAMPA - Monday's arrest of a Wharton High School basketball coach accused of having a sexual relationship with one of her players raises the question: How can such serious allegations take months from a parent's complaint to an arrest? The bottom line, Hillsborough County school officials say, is the school district never really investigated the claim made in March that Jaymee Lane Wallace, 28, had the relationship. Nor did the district report possible child abuse to law enforcement, said Linda Kipley, general manager of Hillsborough schools' office of professional standards. "This is very unusual," Kipley said Wednesday. "We opened an...