Contents:
- CATHOLIC CHURCH BANS VIS BY GAY THOR TO LONDON SCHOOL
- FURY AS CATHOLIC CHURCH BANS GAY AUTHOR'S VIS TO LONDON SCHOOL
- OFSTED CRICIS ARCHDCE OVER BAN ON GAY THOR’S VIS TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL
- COURT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL THAT LET EMPLOYEE GO OVER HER GAY MARRIAGE
- BAN ON GAY THOR SHOWS THAT CATHOLIC CHURCH IS STILL FAILG YOUNG PEOPLE
CATHOLIC CHURCH BANS VIS BY GAY THOR TO LONDON SCHOOL
The Catholic church has banned a vis to a London school by a gay thor and removed a number of ernors who supported the event, a move that has drawn parisons to the notor 1980s sectn 28 ban on “promotg homosexualy” church said a vis by Simon Jam Green, an acclaimed thor of books for children and young adults, fell “outsi the spe of what is permissible a Catholic school” had been due to speak and sign books on Monday at John Fisher boys’ school Purley, south London, a voluntary-aid fah school overseen by the Catholic archdce of Southwark. ”Sectn 28, which prohibed lol thori om “promotg homosexualy”, was troduced by Margaret Thatcher’s ernment rponse to a children’s book, Jenny Liv Wh Eric and Mart, pictg different kds of a statement issued a few days before the John Fisher event, the archdce said s schools were required to “liver a programme of relatnships and sex tn that is pliant wh the Equali Act 2010 and Magisterium [teachg] of the Catholic church” add: “From time to time, materials or events emerge for nsiratn that fall outsi the spe of what is permissible a Catholic school … In such circumstanc, we have no alternative but to affirm our unequivol and well-known theologil and moral precepts and to act acrdance wh them. The Catholic church has been acced of “disturbg behavur” that stigmatis LGBTQ relatnships after the ncellatn of a planned vis to a school by a gay young adult ernment has been urged to rensir the fundg of fah schools after Simon Jam Green was banned om The John Fisher School, a Catholic boys’ sendary school, was due to vis the school on Monday for World Book Day to discs his novel, Noah Can’t Even, which featur a gay character.
Attempts to ot a school’s ernors who supported a vis by a gay thor left staff and pupils “feelg angry, nfed and trated, ” Ofsted has said s snap spectn of John Fisher school Purley was triggered by ncerns over the school’s ernance, after the Catholic lears of the archdce tervened to ncel a vis by the thor Simon Jam Green to celebrate World Book Day was to speak and sign books at the boys’ sendary school, which is overseen by the Catholic archdce of Southwark. Pupils are tght the importance of rpect for all, cludg those who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, ” the report stat.
FURY AS CATHOLIC CHURCH BANS GAY AUTHOR'S VIS TO LONDON SCHOOL
The archdce of Southwark’s cisn to ban a gay thor om speakg at a school (Catholic church bans vis by gay thor to London school, 9 March) shows that the Catholic church still has much to learn about protectg the wellbeg of young people need exampl of all typ of posive, lovg relatnships, same-sex and otherwise, to help them make rmed choic about their own relatnships.