Teacher Shelly Fzgerald n be fired for beg gay: Court

Contents:

• WHAT SHOULD A GAY CATHOLIC DO?
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• BLSG GAY UNNS
• GUIDANCE UNSELOR ‘HELD HERSELF OUT AS MISTER’: FERAL APPEALS URT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOR FIRG GAY EMPLOYEE
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• WHAT DO LOOK LIKE TO BE GAY – AND A PRACTICG CATHOLIC?
• I THOUGHT I WAS OVER MY CATHOLIC GUILT ABOUT BEG GAY. MAYBE I WAS WRONG?
• LIBERAL RDAL LLS FOR REVISED CATHOLIC TEACHG ON GAYS

WHAT SHOULD A GAY CATHOLIC DO?

To disunt this, some homosexual activists have argued that moral imperativ om the Old Ttament n be dismissed sce there were certa ceremonial requirements at the time—such as not eatg pork, or circumcisg male babi—that are no longer bdg.

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The morn arguments favor of homosexualy have th been sufficient to overe the evince that homosexual behavr is agast dive and natural law, as the Bible and the Church, as well as the wir circle of Jewish and Christian (not to mentn Mlim) wrers, have always held. C., that would pull out of social servic the cy rather than acce to a bill that would afford benefs to same-sex spo, a qutn, too long neglected, aris for the whole church: What is a gay Catholic supposed to do life?

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

A gay layman I know who serv an important role a dce (and even wr some of his bishop's statements on social jtice) has a solid theologil tn and sir to serve the church, but fds impossible to be open the face of the bishop's repeated disparagg remarks about gays.

BLSG GAY UNNS

The Roman Catholic Church, the largt Christian nomatn the Uned Stat wh an timated 62 ln members, has weled celibate gay and lbian people to s church life but creasgly is beg more tolerant even of this populatn. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, a text which ntas dogmas and teachgs of the Church, nam “homosexual acts” as “trsilly immoral and ntrary to the natural law, ” and nam “homosexual tennci” as “objectively disorred. The 1986 Letter stat, “Although the particular clatn of the homosexual person is not a s, is a more or ls strong tenncy orred toward an trsic moral evil; and th the clatn self mt be seen as an objective disorr.

A 2005 Vatin document, approved by then Pope Benedict XVI, stcted that the Church “nnot adm to the semary or to holy orrs those who practice homosexualy, prent ep-seated homosexual tennci or support the so-lled ‘gay culture.

The statement stck many observers as a shift for the Vatin – which 2003 me out agast any “legal regnn of homosexual unns” – even as Francis did not change his long-standg opposn to gay marriage.

GUIDANCE UNSELOR ‘HELD HERSELF OUT AS MISTER’: FERAL APPEALS URT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOR FIRG GAY EMPLOYEE

In the wake of Pope Francis’ recent ment about same-sex civil unns, Pew Rearch Center nducted this analysis to better unrstand what Catholics around the world thk about legal regnn for same-sex upl and homosexualy general. The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey.

In Eastern Europe, acceptance was weaker, wh roughly half or fewer of Catholics sayg that homosexualy should be accepted by society Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Lhuania.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

The Catholic Church teach that “homosexual acts are trsilly disorred” and lls on gay people to practice “chasty, ” though also lls on Catholics to treat gay men and women wh “rpect, passn and sensivy.

WHAT DO LOOK LIKE TO BE GAY – AND A PRACTICG CATHOLIC?

WASHINGTON – A feral appeals urt has led that a Catholic high school Indianapolis was ee to fire a gay guidance unselor bee she performed at least some relig duti, the latt legal setback for LGBTQ+ rights when they nflict wh Fzgerald had worked for 14 years as a guidance unselor at Ronlli High School when school officials disvered she was married to another woman.

I THOUGHT I WAS OVER MY CATHOLIC GUILT ABOUT BEG GAY. MAYBE I WAS WRONG?

Through participant observatn and terviews nducted wh gay and lbian stunts, we intify and discs four inty tegori based on whether stunts embrace or reject relig inti and sexual mory inti: (1) tegrated (embrace both inti), (2) liberated (embrace sexual inty, reject relig inty), (3) embattled (embrace relig inty, reject sexual inty), and (4) disillned (uncertaty about both inti). Although negotiatg relig and sexual inti n be challengg across groups and ntexts due to inty nflict (Stryker and Burke 2000), religly-affiliated universi—which are ee to discrimate ways which other stutns nnot due to relig eedom laws—n tensify and plite inty velopment for sexual study explor how gay and lbian llege stunts simultaneoly grapple wh and velop their sexual and relig inti a highly relig stutn.

LIBERAL RDAL LLS FOR REVISED CATHOLIC TEACHG ON GAYS

Reterpretatn among those who tegrate gay and Catholic inti uld be unrstood as rmal “lived” theology beg done njunctn wh, but also distctn om more formal bat among profsnal theologians.

Dpe persistent polarizatn over same-sex relatnships, Amerins are now more likely to say that gay men and lbians serve at least formal equal rights such as same-sex marriage and ary service (Brewer 2014; Pew 2015; Schnabel 2016). Yet, many relig groups ntue to draw cultural boundari opposn to same-sex relatnships (Schnabel 2016), and Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ) rights are equently seen as existg ntentn wh the relig eedoms of dividuals and even stutns. Dpe ntug tensn between tradnal relign and same-sex relatnships, a sexual-mory-affirmg “gay theology” has veloped, and some relig stutns wele gay and lbian Christians to their ngregatns (Rodriguez and Ouellette 2000; Chav and Anrson 2014).