Contents:
- CATHOLIC SCHOOLS BALANCE GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE CLUBS WH BELIEFS
- COURT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL THAT LET EMPLOYEE GO OVER HER GAY MARRIAGE
- FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS BALANCE GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE CLUBS WH BELIEFS
Andrew Perez joed his high school’s gay-straight alliance (GSA) bee he believed Pope Francis’ msage of love for all people. “I was terted to hear Pope Francis say [gay people] are weled wh open arms, ” Perez, now a senr, says. “A lot of [gay people] are unr the imprsn that they are not accepted.
A close iend has disclosed to Perez that he is gay, and Perez has openly LGBTQ relativ. ” “At Xavier, kids are openly gay and are accepted, ” Perez says. And—spe Pope Francis’ softer tone on gays and lbians, and the June 2015 U.
GLSEN, the Gay, Lbian & Straight Edutn Network, is a natnal anizatn that provis rourc to improve the atmosphere for LGBTQ stunts gras K–12. Growth om prev years roughly mirrored the untry’s signifint velopments the acknowledgment of gay rights.
COURT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL THAT LET EMPLOYEE GO OVER HER GAY MARRIAGE
No easily accsible public rource—Catholic anizatn or secular gay advocy group—lists Catholic high school GSAs.
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.
FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
But you hear kids llg each other ‘gay’ or ‘faggot’ as an sult. “LGBTQ people are historilly people who get discrimated agast, who lose jobs, who sometim get abed or killed for beg gay.
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. “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 Church’s teachg on homosexualy is clear, ” asserts.