Denver Archdiocesan Catholic School Kicks Student Out For Having Lesbian Parents
Clearly a case of geographic standards, since I can tell you for a fact that many of the parents of Catholic school kids in Philadelphia's inner city are "living in disaccord with Church teachings." In other words, the rules are much more flexible when the schools don't have enough paying students. Hell, many of the Philadelphia students aren't even Catholics!
I can tell you, though, that even teachers here are rather intimidated by the contractual requirement that they lead pristine Catholic lives that are an inspiration to students. (Unlike, say, the pedophile priests who are groping kids or the Papal court members who are running prostitution rings.) For teachers, parochial schools mostly get devout Catholics who believe in Catholic schools, or ex-public school teachers who are burned out by the discipline problems. It's definitely not the salary (they make the pre-visitation Ebenezer Scrooge look like a spendthrift).
If I taught in Catholic school, I'd find some dirt on the pastor, blackmail him and go about my merry sinful way. But that's just me!
BOULDER - Some parents are considering pulling their children out of a Catholic preschool after the school told a family a student could not return because the parents are homosexual.
A meeting was held to discuss the issue at Wesley Chapel in Boulder Friday evening.
"This could be one of those moments where the community is holding a mirror up to the church for it to take a look at its policy and reconsider what they've been doing," Wesley Chapel Pastor Roger Wolsey said.
Teachers at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic School were told about the situation earlier this week. Staff members say they were told a student would not be allowed to re-enroll because of his or her parents' sexual orientation.
The Denver Archdiocese says the student's parents are two women and their homosexual relationship violates the school's beliefs and policy.
"They're entitled to do what they want," Wolsey said. "And I would respect them no matter what they decide. [But] I think a lot of churches are doing a lot of soul searching right now."
In a statement sent to 9NEWS, the Archdiocese said, "Homosexual couples living together as a couple are in disaccord with Catholic teaching."
According to the Archdiocese, parents who enroll their kids at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic School are expected to follow the Catholic Church's beliefs.
So children of divorced parents aren't allowed to attend, either? WTF???
Yet they protected the pedophiles which were in their employment for years...
They gave them communion , protected them from the law and now are closing down their Schools and Churches to pay their fines..
Religious organizations have become the worst group of Hypocrites in this country..
They now preach preach from the pulpit.to tell you who to vote for and who they will denied communion for it they do not do as they wish..
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This Sacred Heart of Jesus parish is known for their hypocrisy. Having gone to church and school there, I know.
My mother, now in her 90's, gave literally hundreds of thousands of dollars to that parish over her lifetime. Now they can't even be bothered to come visit her once in a while or find someone to drive her to mass!
(BTW, the parish and school are in Boulder - the diocese seat is in Denver, that's why there's been a confusion)
to the inability of the poster to understand what it means when an article begins with a dateline that says "Boulder." Unless they are in a box when it comes to Colorado geography. (That is a rock joke for pop)
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Those of us from around here don't mistake one for the other, since the two places are a good 30 miles apart and in different counties, even different congressional districts.
The fact that those hiding behind the shield of
religion are DANGEROUS.
No one has lifted their skirts to find what other deviuos influences they have promugated to their gullible flock.
My goodness who would of not thought that their were gay priests working in the vatican. Heavens to betsy?
Hey man their are gay squriels it's just the way the world is made up. Just accept it as part of humanity and let us move on to real problems. Like getting our soldiers out of Afghanistan.
is too inconvenient, you know....
The Catholic Church excommunicated my divorced mother for marrying my father. You can imagine I have a personal view on the sincerity of their "right to life" position.
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up it's own backyard and they should start here in Denver--if they did not have their own scandal in the vatican!...Homosexuality is not a choice but pedeophilia is a crime against children and against the law--Aside from being a despicable act that has been hidden by the church to the detremint of hundreds of thousands of men over the history of the that church!
Shameless b$&*^ds literally!
I agree it is time to tax the churches..Between this and Stupak the C streeter --Enough!
who have backtalked to their parents because we all know they should have been stoned to death upon the occurrence.
Clean all the GOD-DAMNED sinners out.
tax churches
So now that the CC now believes in gay sex rings run out of the Vatican, everyone can do that too? Lots of kids that are not Catholic go to Catholic school. My neice is Jewish--she went--they too my brothers money. The kid was going to Hebrew school at the same time.
Picking on a 5 year old. I really don't know what to say. If it were my kid, I would be in jail right now for beating the hell out the principle or priest or what-ever the hell you call a person running a catholic school.
Is giving our tax money for people to pay these religious schools to brain wash children..
Like Germany , China and other nations which want to have their people to do as they command..
Talk about Cults , they just keep popping up more and more each day..
The Catholic Church has gone back to their roots ,,, when they jailed or killed people who did not agree with their teachings..
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by being in jail. Then it would be exposed neither to the church or a violent parent.
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its place, you know.
In the perfect world, it would not be necessary, but let's be candid here.
When you are hated simply because you breathe there are breaking points.
...what is now the U.S. wouldl be a British colony. Sometimes you must kill the enemy.
Isn't a spendthrift rather an oxymoron?
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For me, the idea of putting my child in a religious school, sickens me. (As it is there'stoo much god in public school). Lying to children about god, hell, afterlives, floods, etc....is wrong and in some cases abusive.
Of course, but these religious schools are private schools. They can boot out whomever they please.
...intellectually and emotionally by brainwashing them into a primitive delusional belief system. All involved, including parents, should be prosecuted for child abuse and the religiuos schools should be burned to the ground.
Here here.
Been saying it for years. Religious indoctrination is child abuse. You ruin a child for the remainder of their life through fear and intimidation.
'The devil crept into Heaven, God overslept on the 7th, the New World Order was born on Sept 11th.' - Immortal Technique
is going to pass judgment on a some members of the community? They're starting to behave like bushco.
Unbelievable. The Christanic death cult is evil even by its own standards. Add Republicanism and we get what the Christanic death cult is today. Outrageous insanity. God damned fucking cults!
It is what the religion has mutated into- a total disregard for the message and teachings of Christ, preferring the teachings of the Old Testament and Paul. Which is what almost all Christian religions do these days.
...who delighted in threatening his enemies with eternal torture in the fires of hell, and who failed Botany 101 when he showed he didn't even know that the mustard seed is NOT the "smallest seed of all," or that fig trees do NOT bear fruit out of season. Read the Bible. All of its many, and often conflicting versions depict Jesus as a vindictive idiot. There is nothing to admire about such a person.
Fortunately for the world, the Bible's Jesus Christ never actually existed. It's time to put away childish things, folks.
Here's the EVIDENCE against "Jesus Christ:"
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com
and should continue you investigations until they lead to a logical conclusion and concensus.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBoTEZxWkec&fe...
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South Park.
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According to the Archdiocese, parents who enroll their kids at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic School are expected to follow the Catholic Church's beliefs.
So they're required to repeately rape children and create a defacto pedophile dating service and then cover it up?
...gay prostitution.
A point no one seems to have commented on. The Catholic Church condones priests (all men, since women can't be priests, not that no intelligent woman would want to) molesting children.
They have a gay (again, male) prostitution ring operating within the Vatican.
Both of these are okay. But two loving parents, both of whom just happen to be women, and they scream bloody murder.
It's because they are women. Women don't get to run families or raise children.
Just as Jesus intended.
Yes, they are different. Recent polls have shown some people think Boulder is in Denver. Why do you think this is?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
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The Vatican is full of pedophiles. So is the republican party. Watch the discovery channel's unaired documentary called "the franklin cover up" lets get to the bottom line.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Thanks geronimo. That is a rare, under-circulated gem. Poor quality video but the real zinger is that the United States Government really did re-imburse the Discovery Channel for their production costs in exchange for them pulling and destroying the video.
One of the people working on the film smuggled out a copy and got it circulated. The video is particularly damning towards the republicans, but in my opinion was not political. It just stated the facts.
http://www.armchairsubversive.org/
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Perhaps the ONLY benefit of the current Greek financial crisis is the decision by the Greek govt to begin to TAX CHURCH PROPERTY.
Why should we the taxpayers continue to subsidize a fascist state-within-a-state by giving them a tax break?
Particularly when their views and practices are BLATANTLY anti-democratic ..
(And if they don't like that, make the Catholic Church REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER!)
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
The Catholic Diocese of Burlington, VT, is selling its headquarters building and Camp Holy Cross, a 26-acre children's camp with 1,000 feet of Lake Champlain shoreline, to raise money for settlements to alleged sex abuse victims. The diocese, with 118,000 members, has 25 pending suits alleging negligent hiring and supervision of priests. Of those, 18 involve Rev. Edward Paquette, who allegedly molested dozens of altar boys in the 1970s. A Colorado man was awarded $8.7 million in 2008 by a jury that found Paquette was hired despite many red flags.
In 2008, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles sold its headquarters to help pay a $660 million in sex abuse settlements. The building sold for $31 million.
In 2007, the Boston Archdiocese sold its headquarters to Boston College for $65 million to cover abuse-related costs. Source: AP, 2-3-10
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I could find the school's reasoning acceptable only if they also expel the children of parents who are having extramarital affairs, are divorced, are married to non-Christian partners, etc. I'm tired of entities picking and choosing what to enforce and not to enforce purely as a way to somehow attempt to disguise their homophobia.
do you still give them money to fund their hatred?
Well, that oughta teach that damn kid!
by the time you're around five you should know better.
If the parents are living in sin, how does this reflect on the kid? Are Catholic laws now shifting to Islamic laws of blame the victim? Aside from that, this move isn't very bright on the church's part. Here's their chance to persuade a young kid that their parents are living in sin. Mind control is a side affect of catholic school teaching after all. On the other hand, having been through 12 horrific years in such a place, once I got healed from the wounds over a decade later, I would NEVER step one foot into an organized religious service ever again. Mission accomplished.
The Church also prohibits the use of artificial conception -- I wonder how many parents at that school use birth control, and yet their children continue to go there!
for smuggling in hot dogs on Friday and feeding the fish sticks to the dog.
But that was long ago and I was the leading rusher for the Crusaders football team so I was not expelled.
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Killing for Christ since the dawn of time!
Fish Stick Liberation Army.
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enrolling their child in a pre-school run by a Catholic church may have involved matters of convenience and money.
We are talking pre-school here. That is a fancy term for day care when you get right down to it.
Otherwise I cannot understand why a loving, committted lesbian couple would want to expose a young mind to this male dominated cult's educational practices in the first place.
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Some guy with an eating disorder
When my kids went to pre-school it was not like daycare because pre-school lasted about 2 hours and only a few days a week. Day care is a 8am to 4pm type of situation...just saying.
Also, there are many pre-schools out there, with plenty of secular ones. well if you omit "under God" in the PoA.
And lastly, christian pre-schools certainly do things like Noah's Flood and Jesus Love's Me types stuff. I would not subject my children to this stuff, under no circumstances.
pre-schools is large, which is why I said the decision to enroll the child may have had to do with issues of child care rather than education or religion.
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Some guy with an eating disorder
I've always known pre-school as a term used for a program for kids who are too young to be enrolled in kindergarten, as well as kids who do the half-day kindergarten thing.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
are Catholic and think the priests and members love them because they are human and would treat them with dignity and respect as though Jeesus himself was guiding their actions.
Hmmm...Guess that didn't quite work out.
sorry...
as gay man who struggled with the catholic faith I was raised with, i know full well what the catholic church is all about. I cant understand why so many gay people are obsessed with trying to find acceptance in the church.
its like a battered wife who continues to go back to her scumbag husband.
there might be scattered pockets of latent acceptance in areas with liberal leaning churches (claremont, ca) comes to mind, but by and large the catholic leadership is vehemently opposed to gay inclusion.
Hey that is a good perspective. Thanks for sharing that. It's like a black man getting rejected for membership to the John Birch society, then stating indignantly, "This is preposterous!"
Or the average white man trying to join the NBA.
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if you had modified "white" with American. You obviously haven't seen much of the NBA lately. Lotsa white guys.
Not many from the US.
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"if you had modified "white" with American."
If you had modified "NBA" with "All-American Basketball League"
"Only players that are natural-born United States citizens with both parents of Caucasian race are eligible to play in the league," the statement, issued on Martin Luther King weekend, reportedly read.
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or the article to which it links, are the lesbian parents quoted
at all. The indignation is from other parents.
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Bring back "the strap" -- a piece of tire tread cut into a convenient shape to smack kids on the hand (or the butt -- for missing questions in Catechism! Bring back the hairshirt and the rack and put the heretics on the barbecue!
And the remaining 10 people in the Church will have to sell off the Vatican as an art museum.
Are being violated here? Love thy neighbor as thyself? We are ALL God's children? God made all his children in his own likeness? God LOVES all his children (no matter how hypocritical they may be)?Do unto others as you would have them do unto you? I'm sure there are hundreds more, but the sheer hypocrisy of it all has clouded my brain.
Golden Rule. It means take the treatment I myself would approve of if in your shoes. It's backwards and does nothing good.
What's all the uproar about? It's a PRIVATE school. They can have whoever they like there. Hello? It's Catholic! Yes, I know they are hypocrites when they keep children whose parents are divorced -- also not acceptable by Catholics. But we knew that -- how many divorced Catholics can get remarried in the church -- just say the marriage was never consummated -- even if you have children. hahaha
If you don't like their sleazy rules, put your child in another school.
I can't for the life of me see why lesbian parents would even have their child in a Catholic school.
Where it says in our constitution that private schools are allowed to discriminate against our fellow citizens.Especially TAX EXEMPT private schools.I guess that equal rights and protections under said constitution don't apply to catholics.
It says none of that in our constitution. In fact the constitution
does not say Boulder is in Denver or that Colorado even has the right to exist.
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They're not, private business owners, like say diners, can't tell blacks they're not allowed, or have to sit in a special set apart are, or pick up their food at a window.
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Talk about not being able to confront controversy. What a weak mindset and school.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I would argue that theologically the school is on thin ice.
Although they do believe we inherited Adam and Eve's "sin" as some kind of curse, in general you're only responsible for your own.
And a five year old isn't even considered an independent moral agent yet. Although they're baptised as babies, they're not confirmed as moral agents until thirteen.
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Additionally, under the Original Sin, even the schools faculty and administrators are guilty, just forgiven in their mythos.
Are they saying God would spare the mature sinner, but send a five year old to screaming for eternity in hell?
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Wayne Lee Huston, 45, Overland Park, KS:
Indecent liberties with a child. Huston is a former youth pastor at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, where he allegedly had an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old girl.
The girl's mother discovered inappropriate text messages on the girl's phone. He kissed and fondled the girl at his house or hers between Nov. 4 and Dec. 4. Nothing happened at the Holy Cross Church, said police spokesman Jim Weaver. Huston gave the girl extra attention that included counseling in her home, Weaver said: "If a person seems too good to be true, you really have to be careful." Source: Kansas City Star/KCTV-5, 2-2-10
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church to begin with.
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...95 theses wrapped up so succinctly...And I still haven't.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
If my understanding is correct, the Catholic church considers divorce inadvisable and undesirable yet permissible -- however, it does nottolerate second marriages and considers them equivalent to adultery. If the Archdiocese is going to justify kicking students out of school because their gay or lesbian parents are "in disaccord with Catholic teaching", then they should be prepared to expel any and all students whose parents are wantonly disobeying other edicts of the Church. Any other course of action is nothing more than hypocritical favoritism.
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
) Hypocritical favoritism is outlawed by the Catholic Church. Thais is why for century upon century the Pope was always an Italian male.
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According to the Crawford County Sheriff’s Department, Chukwu allegedly took $196,000 from St. Mary Parish in Gays Mills and St. Philip Parish in Soldiers Grove and the La Crosse Diocese on Jan. 15.
The department said Chukwu confessed to diocese attorney Jim Birnbaum and another priest that he invested parish and diocese money in Nigeria for a better interest rate.
Chukwu holds dual citizenship in the U.S. and Nigeria. He was in the Crawford County Jail Saturday. No defense attorney was listed in online records.
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tax free status as they are no longer operating in the public interest, a mandate for all non-profit organizations.
I'll bet they become more inclusive really GOD-DAMNED fast.
Rev. Fred Munger Armfield, 60, Greenwood, SC:
1 count of soliciting prostitution. Armfield, pastor of Little Zion AME Church, is charged with hiring Melinda Ann Robinson, 40, aka "Truck Stop," to perform a "sexual favor." The police report said Robinson wanted $10 but Armfield haggled the price down to $5 and got 5 single ones in change.
Armfield was suspended from his county council position in 1997 after being indicted by a grand jury on 5 counts of willfully assisting in the preparation and filing of a false document.
On Jan. 19, Armfield filed a petition at Greenwood County Courthouse, seeking to have the charge against him dismissed. The document lists Armfield as the petitioner and lists a number of respondents, including Judge Ted Wyndham, Atkins, Futch and the “County of Greenwood.”
In the petition, Armfield proclaims he is a “descendant of the original Moro-Pithecus Disoch, Kenyapithecus and Afro Pithecus, whose ancestors roamed from that point throughout the world. A living flesh and blood being with sovereign status. A femme couleur libre.”
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Yet another reason why "religion" is losing its credibility. I don't remember any kids getting kicked out of school for their parents supporting Bush's two illegal wars, which the Pope expressly came out against. I don't remember any kids getting kicked out of school because their parents support the death penalty, which is against church doctrine. But be gay or lesbian, well that's just going a too far! I proudly claim myself as a spiritual person, but will no longer align myself with any religion due to its politicization via conservatism. Like all conservatives there is no rhyme or reason to their beliefs, and it's certainly not based on a "literal interpretation" of the bible. It's most clearly based on hatred and bigotry.
First marriage didn't work out to say the least , long story short ex found another victim who's family was catholic ( she / her family was not religious at all ) , my dad called me one day and told me that my ex had sent them a letter to forward to me , curious, I said open it up and read it . My dad laughed and said she wanted me to sign some papers and if I recall correctly , go before some Catholic committee so the Catholic church could void our marriage , say that it never happened ( since it wasn't in the Catholic church ) and therefore the ex and her new guy could get married in the Catholic church .Needless to say I didn't respond and told my dad " you know where to file that letter " . If you have not read / do not know the history of the Catholic church ... it's pretty shocking .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Rev. Steven Poole, 41, IL:
2 felony theft counts accusing him of shoplifting at a Walmart in West City. Police said Poole, who serves Catholic parishes in Christopher and Sesser, failed to scan a $3.22 container of butter and a $60 sofa cover at a self checkout. He also allegedly switched the pricing bar code on a memory foam mattress, causing a $145 item to be scanned for $31. He also possessed a stolen laptop computer power pack, police said.
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Priest accused of molesting St. Charles child makes first court appearance
After being charged with sexually assaulting a St. Charles child over a period of five years, a Shorewood Catholic priest made his first appearance in court last week.
Alejandro Flores, 37, has been charged with one count of predatory criminal sexual assault, which could carry up to 30 years in jail; two counts of sexual assault, which could carry up to 15 years in jail; and four counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, which each carry up to seven years in jail.
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Hey Catholic Church, you all need to pick up and move to Virginia. It's the home of repressed self loathing closeted Republicans, and it can be your home to. You'll really fit right in.
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Rev. William D. Howden, 70, Albuquerque, NM:
Criminal sexual penetration of a minor, criminal sexual contact of a minor and kidnapping. Police said Howden molested his 7-yearold granddaughter while showing her images on an adult Web site. Another incident thought to have taken place in a shed at Howden's home was being investigated.
Howden has a master's degree in divinity from the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest and operated Marriage Makers, a wedding service. A cached version of the site lists "Wedding Officiant Reverend Bill Howden." The site says a wedding "formalizes a lifelong relationship, which began when the couple first looked into each other's eyes. Romance. Love. Sex. Commitment. Trust. All of these contribute to an exotic tango of different desires and styles."
Source: Rio Rancho Observer, KRQE.com, 1-10-10; marriagemakers.net, 2-1-10
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;)
Reality has a liberal bias
as they are a private institution
not sure why everyone is upset
New Sex Scandal Rocks Vatican
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Right
Reality has a liberal bias
Sounds like a candidate for one of our federally funded faith-based initiatives?
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Rev. Jeff Kilburn, 45, Massie Township, OH:
Misdemeanor sexual imposition and felony child endangering. Kilburn is pastor of Believer's Ministries. He and his wife, Alice Kilburn, 45, who faces the same charges, formerly ran a ministry and soup kitchen called Clark HomePlace in South Lebanon.
Prosecutors allege that Alice Kilburn tried to have sex at the soup kitchen with a 16-year-old boy while her husband watched.
Source: Cincinnati Enquirer, 12-22-09; WLWT.com, 12-21-09
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Thats what the gay parents get for supporting such an evil, corrupt, patriarchal, misogynist organization riddled with pedophiles and other sexually repressed men. What did they expect?
Now lets see some mass stoning to death of gays and women who were not virgins when they were married, as called for in the bible. After all, the Catholic Church believes in the bible, right?
And don't forget to excommunicate all the divorced men and women in all the churches, did the catholic church already do that, right?
And did the American catholic church throw out all the gay priests and nuns yet (that should leave about 40 or so total in the US)?
And did they excommunicate all priests and members who have eaten shellfish, pork, rabbits, blood and certain birds?
And Deuteronomy 23:2 says: A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the lord. SO no one born out of wedlock is allowed to go to that find catholic school, did they check all of them?
I mean, let's get on with the Inquisition while we are at it --and kill all those jews and witches!
Good catholics with experience can at least expect to be well paid as torturers for the CIA.
The Bible states that the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children.
Doesn't say anything about the mothers, though...
on the parents for trying to place their child at risk of being abused. I mean, eww, what self-respecting person, especially a gay person would give their children upto pedophiles who would not only physically abuse children, but would also teach them that their parents are evil?
Those are some seriously messed up parents.
She is too young and the wrong sex to be an altar boy.
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Good - as former Catholic - I'd LOVE to see the church become irrelevant.
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Ummmmm! Kristinsanity; whadda way to preach love!
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Why would any sane parent send their kids to any school where they are brainwashed into a delusional belief system? Why is this hideous form of child abuse even permitted? What is wrong with our society?
I'm opposed to vouchers for private schools. My tax money is being used to practice segregation. Not one dime from my tax dollars to go towards these bigots.
fuck the catholic church and its pedophile priests.
You might want to get some of your own, Susan dear. The school is in BOULDER, Colorado, which is 30 miles from Denver. People from around here don't identify one as the other and assume it's the same.
And Boulder is in the Denver Archdiocese, just as the far suburbs of Philadelphia are in the Philadelphia Archdiocese.
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6 years: Rev. Charles Newman, 58, Philadelphia, PA, was found guilty of stealing $900,000. The priest and former principal of the largest Roman Catholic high school In Philadelphia stole money from the school and his religious order to buy the silence of victims he molested after providing them with drugs and alcohol.
Former student Arthur Baselice III told authorities that Newman started sexually molesting him in 1995 when he was a junior and Newman was principal of Archbishop Ryan High School. The pair would meet in his office, where Newman would use drugs. Prosecutors were disappointed they couldn't charge other priests due to time limits under existing Pennsylvania law. Newman is believed to have molested three or four other students who have yet to come forward. Source: The News Journal, 5/23/09
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Well I like to ask the school and the church when they can control what the Vatcan does with the whore ring then maybe you can control my family. As a catholic am outraged that this child was kicked out of the school. Shame. The catholic church as lost its moral standing to tell others how to act when you haven't bother to clean your own house.
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These responses are exactly why this county is so screwed up. Forget the Rule of Law just because some of the law makers failed to follow it!!! By that logic we should have thrown out the Federal Government long ago or just flat out stopped enforcing the rule of law altogether!
The Catholic Church is a human organization like any other, filled with flawed human beings. They set rules for their organization, just like any other group does and you guys want to persecute them for following their own doctrine! Who has been harmed here? The Catholic Church or those posing to be Catholic but not actually following its rules. Sure scandals have been abound, but they are everywhere and not just the Catholic Church, but that should never stop any group from enforcing their rule of law.
pedophiles in their midst, refuses to feed the hungry over gay marriage, etc. and yet *we're* the reason America is screwed up?
Guess what, the reason we have no sympathy for the RCC is while they are indeed deeply flawed human beings, they are also deeply flawed human beings who look down on others for "sins" while racking up an impressive set of sins themselves.
But yes, keep telling yourself we're the problem if it will let you live with a deeply prejudiced institution.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
I agree. By some of the comments, I'm sure they believe Acorn should be disbanded also. Some of their employees have been caught falsifying voter registration cards, they covered up embezzlement..........
So if you have committed adultry, a felony, lied, broken any of the ten commandments, had an abortion, used artificial birth control, you have violated the teachings of the church, or is this just SELECTIVE enforcement of church teachings? If they apply this principal fairly, will they have any children allowed to attend this sorely lacking school?
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"
Amended: And their focus will be on the family. √
Study the symptoms not the virus...
If the lesbian Parents had stated that they were celibate and they never engage in sexual behavior surely the Catholic Clergy would understand and condone their stringent adherence to celibacy.
'Talk to the hand'
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