Catholic School Board Committee Approves Pro-Gay Manual, Does Not Teach Homosexual Acts Sinful

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I was looking at the minuits of the meeting. Also included was abstinance education, stds., right to life, understanding opposite sex with smart & not smart choices, the maternity home support.
The manual is used by counselors as one resource.
 
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Probably in his office lamenting the fact that he can’t do anything about it. Government-owned schools are beyond his jurisdiction.
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**** why? i thought if it was a catholic school,it would be considered a private school,and if the school doesnt want to comply with catholic teaching,you take away the name Catholic from it.
 
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why? i thought if it was a catholic school,it would be considered a private school,and if the school doesnt want to comply with catholic teaching,you take away the name Catholic from it.
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It’s a public schoolboard, entirely funded with taxpayers’ money. I suppose that the Bishop could ask them to remove the crucifixes from the classrooms, rename their schools, and stop purporting to teach the Catholic faith, but this seems like a pretty drastic move…
 
I was looking at the minuits of the meeting. Also included was abstinance education, stds., right to life, understanding opposite sex with smart & not smart choices, the maternity home support.
The manual is used by counselors as one resource.
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Teaching young Catholics that a mortal sin is sacramental and undermining the entire basis for Catholic sexual ethics are not outweighed by the presence of a few weak, secular sources.
 
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Teaching young Catholics that a mortal sin is sacramental and undermining the entire basis for Catholic sexual ethics are not outweighed by the presence of a few weak, secular sources.
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I don’t see how you come to such a conclusion. Nothing in the text says that.
 
I don’t see how you come to such a conclusion. Nothing in the text says that.
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Do you mean the text of the book under discussion (“Open Minds to Equality”), or the text of the OP’s article? If you mean the controversial teacher resource, you’re right; it sounds like the book itself is secular, so it wouldn’t have anything at all to say about sacramentality.

On the other hand, if you mean the text of the article, then it definitely confirms that the school teaches that homosexual sex can be sacramental. The article reads, “Of note, at the meeting one of the members, asked if students in the Catholic schools of the board are taught ‘that homosexual acts’ are sinful. The response from the board committee was ‘no.’”

That seems to leave three possibilities. Either the school teaches that homosexual sex can be sacramental just like heterosexual sex, the school teaches that sex need not be sacramental to be moral (which means, sex need not image God’s love to be moral), or the school tries to avoid mentioning homosexual sex at all. That last option seems totally infeasible: what does a sophomore theology teacher say when a student looks him right in the eye and asks about homosexual sex and gay marriage? That leaves just the former two options, both of which are incredibly destructive and incorrect. So, it is clear from the article that the school teaches that a grave evil (homosexual sex) can be sacramental (either that or they teach that sex need not be sacramental at all!).

God bless.
 
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