Why are Catholic schools firg gay teachers, and how n one refe? | Natnal Catholic Reporter

Contents:

• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• COURT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL THAT LET EMPLOYEE GO OVER HER GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• WHY ARE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FIRG GAY TEACHERS, AND HOW N ONE REFE?
• GAY TEACHER AT CATHOLIC SCHOOL APPEALS FOR AN END TO THE FIRG OF LGBTQ CHURCH WORKERS

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

Haton says she knew of 10 LGBTQ stunts the school where she was prcipal who had hurt themselv, cludg by cuttg themselv or attemptg suici bee of homophobia at home or school. But my rearch to religly spired homophobia and transphobia Canadian Catholic schools sce 2004 shows there are other LGBTQ-intified teachers who suffer siar fat.

COURT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL THAT LET EMPLOYEE GO OVER HER GAY MARRIAGE

In the years that I tght for CCSD, I experienced homophobia daily. I knew I uld no longer work for CCSD when a stunt where I was teachg died by suici after sufferg months of homophobic bullyg bee he was gay. I left teachg to rearch homophobia and transphobia Canadian Catholic schools and also to beg to qutn and unrstand how the phobias are stutnalized.

In other words, who or what systems are rponsible for creatg and implementg homophobic and transphobic relig curriculum and admistrative polici?

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

This recurrg discrimatn agast sexual and genr mory groups uld be due to the central ntradictn wh Catholic doctre self: the church’s teachg bt summarized as “It’s OK to be gay, jt don’t act on , ” — a posn some Catholics reject. An fluential 2004 Ontar curricular and policy document, “Pastoral Guil to Assist Stunts of Same-Sex Orientatn”, prents a variety of guil, personal stori and sectns of the Catechism of the Catholic Church pertag to homosexual attractn to nvey a ntradictory posn.

While homosexual acts are “trsilly disorred, ” people experiencg homosexual attractn are lled to chasty and “mt be accepted wh rpect, passn, and sensivy” and therefore are need of “pastoral re. The letter elaborat on the official Church teachgs, statg the “clatn of the homosexual person” is a “strong tenncy orred toward an trsic moral evil.

Where schools promote such ntradictory msag associatg rpect and pravy wh LGBTQ people, they have ma Alberta and Ontar Catholic schools potential hotbeds for homophobia — plac where dited teachers fear for their jobs, and where LGBTQ youth are nied te acceptance and as a nsequence are at risk of bullyg and prsn among other thgs.

WHY ARE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FIRG GAY TEACHERS, AND HOW N ONE REFE?

My recent book Homophobia the Hallways: Heterosexism and Transphobia Catholic Schools explor and effects of the long-standg disnnect between Canadian Catholic schools and the Canadian Charter of Human Rights vis-à-vis sexual and genr mory groups. I sought to document how such homophobic polici and views are impactg teachers and stunts and to unver what is actually happeng.

All of the rearch participants experienced some form of homophobia or transphobia their Catholic schools. I documented the firg of lbian and gay teachers bee they married their same-sex partners; the firg of lbian and gay teachers bee they wanted to have children wh their same-sex partners; the firg of transgenr teachers for transng om one genr to another.

GAY TEACHER AT CATHOLIC SCHOOL APPEALS FOR AN END TO THE FIRG OF LGBTQ CHURCH WORKERS

I also documented how schools seek to prohib stunts om attendg their high school proms wh their same-sex dat, bar stunts om appearg genr-variant clothg for official school photographs or functns like the prom; and ny stunts the right to tablish Gay–Straight Allianc. Louis Universy the 1990s, Michael Maher studied the attus toward stunt homosexualy Catholic high schools.

When he met wh four experienced Catholic school unselors, wh over 50 years of unselg experience among them, they told him only one stunt had ever e to them to discs the topic of homosexualy.