Belongg - A Gay-Straight Alliance | St. Thomas Aquas Church and Catholic Stunt Center

Contents:

• ROOM CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOR GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE
• CATHOLIC SCHOOLS AND GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC
• 'GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE' NAME FORC BATE ONTAR
• BELONGG - A GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• IOWA CATHOLIC SCHOOL APPROV GAY CLUB
• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: A MATTER OF RIGHTS
• ONTAR ULD IMPOSE GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC ON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
• PREMIER FENDS 'GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE' CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
• CATHOLIC U. AND NOTRE DAME UNE TO WORK FOR GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC
• CATHOLIC SUPPORT FOR GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC: 'IT'S WHAT OUR FAH LLS TO DO.'
• WHERE TO GO WHEN IM YOUNG GAY? - AMSTERDAM FOM

ROOM CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOR GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE

One was the Amerin standard, while the other was the rabow banner of gay Papeo, 17, was the classroom for a meetg of Xavier’s Gay-Straight Alliance. Papeo posned himself at a dry-erase board, preparg to wre a list of the recent ton for gay rights at Xavier and the rt of the Lavy, one of three faculty advisers, lled for ias om the 14 stunts the room. Yet as the board filled wh events of the last year — same-sex marriage allowed by the Supreme Court, Irish voters enactg that largely Catholic untry, the rabow flag hangg Xavier’s hallway durg Pri Month June — somethg profound was beg mere existence of a Gay-Straight Alliance a Roman Catholic high school unted as part of the transformatn of both secular and relig attus toward gays.

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS AND GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC

Xavier’s embrace of s openly gay stunts amid the morate, acceptg tone that Pope Francis has stck about gay Catholics — most libly his rhetoril qutn, “Who am I to judge? “Prevly, the argument agast a Gay-Straight Alliance at a Catholic high school or llege would have been that we don’t want to endorse non-Catholic liftyl.

”Ined, while is rare for a Catholic school to sponsor a Gay-Straight Alliance, s emergence at Xavier fs wh a broar moratn of Amerin Catholic opn on homosexualy. A poll released recently by the Pew Rearch Center found Amerin Catholics evenly spl on whether the church should regnize gay and lbian marriag. Nearly two-thirds of rponnts said was acceptable for children to be raised a gay or lbian signifint dividg le the survey opened up between Catholics who did or did not attend Mass weekly.

'GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE' NAME FORC BATE ONTAR

Twice over the prev , Xavier put on stunt productns of “The Laramie Project, ” Mois Kfman’s play about the murr of Matthew Shepard, a gay llege stunt alg wh s gay stunts, Xavier had stggled to be both sensive and discreet, all wh the bounds of church teachg. Lavy, now his 13th year at Xavier, the need for a more public and affirmg anizatn had bee evint wh the 2010 suici of Tyler Clementi, a gay stunt at Rutgers Universy who had been spied upon and outed onle by two classmat. Nothg worse transpired than some baffled looks om parents at the alliance’s table durg Open School stunts and teachers the alliance scribe , the ontier of homophobia Xavier is primarily verbal.

Phras like “that’s so gay” and “grow a set” form the lgua an of sults, pecially among hmen and sophomor who have not yet absorbed Xavier’s ethos. Costa put together a walkg tour of gay historil s Greenwich Village like the Stonewall Inn, the se of the 1969 rts that helped galvanize the fight for gay rights, and the stunt newspaper wrote an article to . Twter: @SamuelGFreedman A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 17 of the New York edn wh the headle: Room Catholic School for Gay-Straight Alliance.

BELONGG - A GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE

GLSEN, the Gay, Lbian & Straight Edutn Network, is a natnal anizatn that provis rourc to improve the atmosphere for LGBTQ stunts gras K–12.

Acrdg to Alexanr Lavy, a physics teacher who is openly gay and serv as one of three faculty advisers to Xavier’s GSA, this is why Xavier admistrators started the group: They wanted to create a safe school.

Admistrators rpond to the 2010 suici of Tyler Clementi, a gay Rutgers Universy stunt whose classmat filmed him an timate enunter wh another man and outed him onle. The high-profile se drew natnal attentn to anti-gay bullyg and the shockg realy that gay and lbian teens are two to three tim more likely to m suici than other youths. The Catholic Church fac a lite balancg act of upholdg two signifint teachgs, says Michael Maher, who has worked as a Catholic mp mister for many years and has rearched and wrten about gay and lbian stunts Catholic schools.

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

“The magisterium (the church’s teachg thory) do not ndone homosexual behavr, yet enurag the Christian muny to be welg and supportive to LGBTQ persons, ” he says.

Bishops’ documents, Always Our Children (1997) and Mistry to Persons wh a Homosexual Inclatn (2006), highlight that balancg act. The former document is addrsed to “parents tryg to pe wh the disvery of homosexualy their adolcent or adult child” and acknowledg the “tensn between lovg your child as God’s prec creatn and not wantg to endorse any behavr you know the Church teach is wrong. “The phenomenon of homosexualy pos challeng that n only be met wh the help of a clear unrstandg of the place of sexualy wh God’s plan for humany, ” says.

IOWA CATHOLIC SCHOOL APPROV GAY CLUB

While rerc the church’s mment to human digny, the letter also clus a sectn many LGBTQ people and alli fd unfortable: “The homosexual clatn is objectively disorred, i. ” Bee of this, she explas, mp misters and chaplas are ccial addrsg all relatnship issu: homosexualy, premaral sex, habatn, divorce, and remarriage.

GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: A MATTER OF RIGHTS

In the meantime, Sister Flemg is not nvced GSAs are the bt way for Catholic high schools to addrs homosexualy—not bee the church shouldn’t talk about sexualy, but bee of church teachg on the tegratn of the human person.

Maher chronicled Catholic schools’ wispread silence about homosexualy his 2001 book, Beg Gay and Lbian a Catholic High School: Beyond the Uniform (Routledge).

ONTAR ULD IMPOSE GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC ON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

The book is based on two stunt surveys and on his 1995 and 1996 terviews wh 25 gay and lbian adults who attend Catholic high schools the late 1980s and early 1990s. “The p admonns of the Catholic magisterium are beg lost a vast sea of homophobia, ” claimed a 2002 review by the Ju magaze Ameri. Catholic schools have a rponsibily to talk about homosexualy and same-sex marriage, says Heather Gossart, director of special projects at NCEA and a 40-year-veteran of Catholic tn.

PREMIER FENDS 'GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE' CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

Seventy percent of lennials—those between the ag of 18 and 34—say relig groups alienate youth by beg judgmental on gay/lbian issu, acrdg to the Public Relign Rearch Instute (PRRI). Furthermore, about a third of lennials who no longer intify wh their childhood relign say negative teachgs about or mistreatment of gays and lbians was an important factor their disaffiliatn.

Aaron Lesma, who wr a blog lled “The Gay Catholic, ” didn’t feel he uld be open about his sexual orientatn when he attend Strake Ju College Preparatory high school Hoton, Texas.

CATHOLIC U. AND NOTRE DAME UNE TO WORK FOR GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC

Wele to the Gay Straight Alliance portal, one of the most tnal plac on the web updated daily and dited to each person who striv for human rights.

CATHOLIC SUPPORT FOR GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC: 'IT'S WHAT OUR FAH LLS TO DO.'

Every gay and straight stunt has a right to a public tn an environment that is ee om harassment, vlence, namellg and timidatn. Amerin rightwg fascists are tryg to stop you om discsg human rights for gay people wh your iends school, but the First Amendment is alive and well the USA.

This is the first sign that such tste, admistrators, and school systems are disgenuo about nontg homophobia and discrimatn; they start out discrimatg agast your anizatn by tryg to dictate s name and prevent s name beg ed to most-easily nvey s purpose. Such admistrators and tste abg children this manner are rpt, should not be allowed around stunts and should be removed om their post; they are a source of the very discrimatn gay straight allianc aim to bat. Some policians are g ernment to wage a war to harm cizens and damage the health and wellbeg of gay, bi, and straight human begs by tryg to prevent important rmatn om reachg your iends and peers.

WHERE TO GO WHEN IM YOUNG GAY? - AMSTERDAM FOM

If policians try to stop you, for example, om creatg a gay straight alliance Middle School, then simply add a relig ponent to your club such as the J Gay Straight Alliance or the Children of God Gay Straight Alliance - showg love, passn, acceptance, unrstandg, and equaly to all God's children gay, bi, and straight to stand up agast bullyg and discrimatn. After all, the re msage of Christiany is not ntrolled by anti-gay groups, and there are plenty of welg relig groups and dividuals the USA who have every right to have clubs reflectg their clive Christiany.

NEW YORK, June 14, 2017 () – Lears of “gay and lbian mistri” three parish the Archdce of New York openly flout the Church’s doctr on sexual moraly, LifeSeNews has found. One is a homosexual drag queen who openly celebrat sodomy, another promot Planned Parenthood fundraisg events and lbian pornography, while another is “married” to his same-sex partner. The “mistri” qutn openly fy the Catholic Church’s teachg agast homosexual behavr, which the Catechism of the Catholic Church lls “trsilly disorred, ” and the Holy See lls “a ser pravy.

The existence of such “mistri” the New York archdce f a pattern of tolerance of homosexualism among the clergy and lay that have led some to speculate that the archdce is ntrolled and manipulated by a “gay mafia” which Cardal Timothy Dolan seems unable, or unwillg, to disciple. Francis De Sal parish, the “Gay Straight Catholic Alliance” urg people to “Come as you are” to the “gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, qutng/queer, and straight ally muni of St.