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A few crazy-ass Catholic parents in Costa Mesa are giving the rest of us a bad name...
Catholic school angers some by admitting gay couple's sons
Monday, January 3, 2005 Posted: 1:33 PM EST (1833 GMT)
COSTA MESA, California (AP) -- Some parents and parishioners have accused the Roman Catholic diocese in Orange County of violating church doctrine by allowing a gay couple to enroll their children in a church school.
The group demanded that St. John the Baptist School in Costa Mesa accept only families that pledge to abide by Catholic teachings, the Los Angeles Times reported in Sunday's editions. Church doctrine opposes gay relationships and adoption by same-sex couples.
"The teachings of the church seem to have been abandoned," John R. Nixon told the Times. "We send our children to a Catholic school because we expect and demand that the teachings of our church will be adhered to."
School officials rejected the demand, and issued a new policy stating that a family's background "does not constitute an absolute obstacle to enrollment in the school."
The parents' demand would presumably prevent two adopted boys whose parents are both men from attending the school's kindergarten.
The Rev. Gerald M. Horan, superintendent of diocese schools, said that if Catholic beliefs were strictly adhered to, then children whose parents divorced, used birth control or married outside the church would also have to be banned.
"This is the quagmire that the parents' position represents," he said. "It's a slippery slope to go down."
The boys' parents, who enrolled their children at the beginning of the school year, declined to comment to the Times.
Some parents have promised to ask the Vatican to intervene and some have threatened to pull their children from the school. Others are worried the boys' attendance will set a precedent, saying their presence is part of a larger effort by the gay community to change the church.
"The boys are being used as pawns by these men to further their agenda," said Monica Sii, who has four children at the school.
One of the women who has signed the official petition has been divorced and remarried. How about after we pull these children out of school for being the innocent adoptees of a homosexual couple, we take this woman out in the street and stone her for adultery? People like this make me so angry. Some people are offering the weak protest that it's not exactly fair to make the two children attend a school where they're told that their father's lifestlye is a sin and leads to hell. One, are Catholic school teachers seriously discussing homosexual behaviour in kindergarten these days? and two, again, it's hard to find "perfect" Catholics - is it fair for kids with divorced parents to hear that their parents are living in sin? I dealt with it, I'm sure many of my fellow Catholic students have. My mother also attended parochial school - with any number of Jewish students. Since when did we turn our back on providing children with educational excellence because somebody thought a minority group was pushing an "agenda?"
The two children have been enrolled in the school since September - people are raising a fuss now because one of the fathers has been volunteering as a teacher's aide. Good Lord save us from people willing to adopt siblings, put them in private school, and be involved in the classroom.
Catholic school angers some by admitting gay couple's sons
Monday, January 3, 2005 Posted: 1:33 PM EST (1833 GMT)
COSTA MESA, California (AP) -- Some parents and parishioners have accused the Roman Catholic diocese in Orange County of violating church doctrine by allowing a gay couple to enroll their children in a church school.
The group demanded that St. John the Baptist School in Costa Mesa accept only families that pledge to abide by Catholic teachings, the Los Angeles Times reported in Sunday's editions. Church doctrine opposes gay relationships and adoption by same-sex couples.
"The teachings of the church seem to have been abandoned," John R. Nixon told the Times. "We send our children to a Catholic school because we expect and demand that the teachings of our church will be adhered to."
School officials rejected the demand, and issued a new policy stating that a family's background "does not constitute an absolute obstacle to enrollment in the school."
The parents' demand would presumably prevent two adopted boys whose parents are both men from attending the school's kindergarten.
The Rev. Gerald M. Horan, superintendent of diocese schools, said that if Catholic beliefs were strictly adhered to, then children whose parents divorced, used birth control or married outside the church would also have to be banned.
"This is the quagmire that the parents' position represents," he said. "It's a slippery slope to go down."
The boys' parents, who enrolled their children at the beginning of the school year, declined to comment to the Times.
Some parents have promised to ask the Vatican to intervene and some have threatened to pull their children from the school. Others are worried the boys' attendance will set a precedent, saying their presence is part of a larger effort by the gay community to change the church.
"The boys are being used as pawns by these men to further their agenda," said Monica Sii, who has four children at the school.
One of the women who has signed the official petition has been divorced and remarried. How about after we pull these children out of school for being the innocent adoptees of a homosexual couple, we take this woman out in the street and stone her for adultery? People like this make me so angry. Some people are offering the weak protest that it's not exactly fair to make the two children attend a school where they're told that their father's lifestlye is a sin and leads to hell. One, are Catholic school teachers seriously discussing homosexual behaviour in kindergarten these days? and two, again, it's hard to find "perfect" Catholics - is it fair for kids with divorced parents to hear that their parents are living in sin? I dealt with it, I'm sure many of my fellow Catholic students have. My mother also attended parochial school - with any number of Jewish students. Since when did we turn our back on providing children with educational excellence because somebody thought a minority group was pushing an "agenda?"
The two children have been enrolled in the school since September - people are raising a fuss now because one of the fathers has been volunteering as a teacher's aide. Good Lord save us from people willing to adopt siblings, put them in private school, and be involved in the classroom.