Maryland Archbishop Denies School Catholic Status for Refusing "Human Sexuality" Course

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By Kathleen GilbertBALTIMORE, Maryland, October 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - At St. Thomas More Academy in Buckeystown, Maryland, students read classical literature and recite the rosary daily as part of an integrated, Catholic curriculum. The school is one that parents typically choose for its…

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I don’t really get the problem. The school can’t get recognition unless it follows the Archbishop’s guidelines. I can’t imagine that anyone would argue that the Archbishop should change because 20% of the school’s parents would possibly pull their children from the school. It seems to me that Dr. James Merckel, founder of the school, wants to have a “Catholic” school but only on his own terms.

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Perhaps he is thinking of the diastrous consequences of sexual perversion in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. I have trepidations about most sex-education programs. The most outlandish ones I have ever seen were perpetrated by official Catholic schools and parish religious ed. programs.
 
This happened to a local homeschooling coop. The group split up over it, with some parents leaving permanently, some parents staying and some parents creating a new group.
 
It is a very inadequate article. There is no reference to what the diocesan sex ed program is. This is the crux of the issue!

If it is one of the awful, secular programs prepared by non-catholics from a fundamentally non-catholic worldview and then dressed up at the end with a few catholic window dressings, then the school is in the right.

In my diocese, kids are required to participate in the “Talking about Touching” program for abuse prevention. Sounds great until you start hearing the rumors. Rumors such as, the program was originally developed by a group called “COYOTE” (Call off your old tired ethics) which was a support group for prostitutes that sought to reduce the prevalence of sexual abuse in children of hookers! Ya THINK there might be some fundamental incompatibility in a program developed by such a group? Might it NOT be better to develop a program from scratch BY and FOR catholics who believe that catholic teaching on the meaning of human sexuality is divinely revealed?

The article is woefully short on critical information.
 
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