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and many others send their children to catholic schools because they want their children educated in a religious-sponsored institution. In any event, the teachings of the catholic church on certain issues are and have long been clear. What happened here shouldn't be a shock to anyone. And you're not going to get the church to change by shaming it into submission. While i wish that the catholic church didn't have such policies, i will defend their right under our constitution to have such policies.
I wouldn't read too much into that church attendance trend.
Americans don't like to do much of anything that requires turning off their smart phones for two hours.
Attendance is what keeps the collection plates full, though. The dropping attendance is what is leading to so many Catholic churches and schools closing. A parish can't survive if they can't fill the pews.
The world is moving on from this backwards ass thinking that homosexuality is a sin and homosexuals should be shunned.
This backwards ass thinking should be called out at every turn. Let those who held those beliefs (cast the first stone) repent and ask forgiveness and come live with us in the 21st century
I went to Catholic school for 12 years. Not because my parents were religious but because they did not want to send me to Public School in NYC back in the 1950's. By HS, I was questioning all of that religion. While my husband and I were married in the Catholic Church, we only went through the trappings of religion with our own children. I think growing up they kinda knew our hearts really weren't into it. After what I went through in Catholic School, I vowed I would NEVER sent my own children to one.
My younger daughter married in the Catholic Church but she and her husband will tell you it was only for the Pomp and Circumstance, and super religious MIL. They did not baptize their sons. "Let them decide when they are older what religion, or none, they want". Daughter considers herself more spiritual than religious and goes to a Spiritualist Church which embraces all religions and prophets/holy men equally.
My older daughter is more religious than her sister. She and her wife just had a baby boy last Friday. They do intend to baptize their son but not in the Catholic religion. They have a close, gay friend who is a Minister in a non-denominational Christian church which to quote her, "welcomes everyone, including gay families". They will be going there. I don't think they have their own school so I guess grandson #3 will be going to public school, same as his cousins.
Not defending the catholic school; in fact, I think it is wrong . . . but why is it when conservatives are kicked off Twitter, Youtube, and Facebook the left portrays it as an acceptable action of a private entity and this, well makes, the news with an obvious slant.
Not defending the catholic school; in fact, I think it is wrong . . . but why is it when conservatives are kicked off Twitter, Youtube, and Facebook the left portrays it as an acceptable action of a private entity and this, well makes, the news with an obvious slant.
Discrimination based on one's actions, words, behaviors, etc is different than discrimination based on one's inherent characteristics (hair color, eye color, race, gender, sex, sexuality, etc).
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