Our hope is that, by the time a young person begs askg qutns about their own sexual orientatn, they already tst that there is a place for gay people the Catholic Church.
Contents:
- COURT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL THAT LET EMPLOYEE GO OVER HER GAY MARRIAGE
- WHAT IT WAS LIKE BEG A GAY STUNT IN A CATHOLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM
- GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
- GAY TEACHER AT CATHOLIC SCHOOL APPEALS FOR AN END TO THE FIRG OF LGBTQ CHURCH WORKERS
COURT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL THAT LET EMPLOYEE GO OVER HER GAY MARRIAGE
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Wilnberg first heard gay people mentned a Catholic ntext 1978, when he was sixth gra. He rells that a classmate “ma a crack about sodomy, ” and the relig sister leadg the class rmed them that the s of Sodom wasn’t about sex, and that “homosexuals serve our passn. He spent some time discerng the prithood but stead moved to San Francis—where he thought all gay men eventually end up—and is now semi-retired and sgs his church’s schola ntom.
The iative began part bee a iend poted out that my work foc on helpg queer adults rtore a relatnship wh God that has too often been damaged by the silenc and falsehoods that make gay people feel like outsirs wh their if, by the time a young person begs askg qutns about their own sexual orientatn, they already tst that there is a place for gay people the Catholic Church? What if, by the time a young person begs askg qutns about their own sexual orientatn, they already tst that there is a place for gay people the Catholic Church? We are foced on creatg prehensive, age-appropriate rourc for Catholic stutns and fai that prent gay and lbian people as part of Catholic history and offer hope for today’s queer youth.
This article will e a number of imperfect terms, cludg gay, queer and non-straight, to suggt a range of experienc.
WHAT IT WAS LIKE BEG A GAY STUNT IN A CATHOLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM
Wilnberg, intify as gay, lbian, bisexual and/or same-sex attracted; and we accept Catholic teachg full. By this we mean the materials should not jt be a reactn to the stat quo, but should also propose Catholic visns for gay people’s flourishg.
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
The people quoted here clu both people celibate same-sex partnerships and people gay marriag. I have spoken wh orthodox Catholics who say they would not put their own children Catholic schools or who have left Catholic tn part bee of anti-gay I learned rrponds wh what I heard om my panns durg the retreat weekend.
D., released an pecially strgent policy 2022 that bars stunts om “advot[g], celebrat[g], or exprs[g] same-sex attractn” or “transgenrism” “ such a way as to e nfn or distractn” and urg the e of the term same-sex attractn all circumstanc, as opposed to more lloquial terms like gay. Archdce of Denver’s policy, released 2022, urg teachers to nont “genr iology” whenever possible, bars “gay-straight allianc”and requir schools to tell parents if a stunt “beg[s] to assert an inty at odds wh their blogil sex, ” which would out young people to parents whout regard for the child’s reasons for g out only to peers or tsted mentors.
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GAY TEACHER AT CATHOLIC SCHOOL APPEALS FOR AN END TO THE FIRG OF LGBTQ CHURCH WORKERS
”In high school, she was assigned to wre an say fense of the Catholic Church’s stance on homosexualy. This was a theme among several nversatns wh my terviewe: Silence about gay life don’t keep people out of emotnal entanglements, jt mak harr for queer young people to navigate their iendships.