Kansas Catholic school rejects kindergartner with same-sex parents

[trotsky]

Intolerance isn't always just a human thing.

Sometimes religion fosters it. Don't let those with a deceitful agenda try and tell you otherwise.

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/kansas-city-catholic-school-rejects-kindergartner-same-sex-parents-n980781

About 1,000 people have signed a petition asking a Roman Catholic elementary school in Kansas to “prayerfully reconsider” its decision to deny a kindergarten student with same-sex parents a place at the school.

...Many St. Ann parents first learned of the enrollment decision last week, when the school’s pastor, the Rev. Craig J. Maxim, sent a letter home to families, according to The Kansas City Star.

In his letter, Maxim said he had sought the advice of the archdiocese regarding whether to admit the kindergartener with gay parents. The archdiocese, he explained, advised against it because “same-sex unions are not in conformance with the Church’s teaching on sacramental marriage,” and “the parents cannot model behaviors and attitudes consistent with the Church’s teachings.”

...Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director of DignityUSA, a Catholic LGBTQ advocacy organization, said that while Catholic school policies vary throughout the U.S., St. Ann is not an outlier in rejecting students with same-sex parents.

[TexasTowelie]

1. You're a day behind on that news.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10521604

[Act_of_Reparation]

5. A wizard never late, nor is he early, he posts precisely when he means to.

[MineralMan]

2. "The sins of the fathers..."

Numbers 14:18

'The LORD is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations.'

There are multiple verses along those lines in the Old Testament. These schools are simply following the "rules" by punishing the child for the perceived sins of the fathers. Slavish adherence to the minutiae of the Bible has caused more harm than good since that book first appeared. There's something ugly for everyone in its pages.

[Turbineguy]

3. It's the kid's own fault.

He should have gotten himself born to a different family.

[Cartoonist]

4. Bad parents

What on 🌍 are they thinking? Why are they still Catholics? Why send their kid to such an institution? They would be taught to hate their parents.

[NeoGreen]

6. Bigger question...

...why is anyone still a catholic?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1218308714

Cardinal Admits the Catholic Church Destroyed Files to Cover Up Child Sex Abuse

[Major Nikon]

7. Then you realize civil rights laws have exceptions carved out for intolerance on behalf of religion

That's what privilege does for you.

[trotsky]

8. But...but...but...

WHATABOUT the Chinese government?

[Major Nikon]

9. Guess who else is really "concerned" about that?

Sadly, as we speak as well, Beijing is holding hundreds of thousands, and possibly millions, of Uyghur Muslims in so-called “re-education camps,” where they’re forced to endure around-the-clock political indoctrination and to denounce their religious beliefs and their cultural identity as the goal.
-- Mike Pence

It's almost as if there's a "choir".

[trotsky]

10. Quite interesting, the voices that are in harmony on that.

[Major Nikon]

11. Yeah, and if you didn't know any better, you might get the impression Pence really gives a shit

https://nowthisnews.com/videos/politics/mike-pence-hangs-out-with-islamophobic-racist