That’s pretty cynical. I choose not to go through life thinking the worst of people.
I think people have gotten confused…this matter is settled, the Boston Diocese has waded into the debate and clearly stated that children of gay parents may attend Catholic schools;
"The Boston archdiocese said it learned of St. Paul’s decision late Tuesday. In her statement, O’Neill said the archdiocese doesn’t bar children of same-sex parents from attending Catholic schools, and that it will develop a policy in the coming weeks to make that clear.
I suspected the church would do the right thing 
also God, but these atheists have no faith in Him so they will not accept that as a valid answer.
right thing according to who, a possibly misguided bishop, you, society. you must not do what mammon deems is right, but what God deems is right.
OK, to clarify for you, obviously I was referring to a simple one-off act of pedophilia such as we are hearing about so often in the media, not to aggravations such as rape or violence.
Well that makes it mutual because I’ve also spent most of my adult life in leadership positions, and I perceive your comment to show gravely misguided judgment. But I’m not so shallow or unfair that I would black-ball you from promotion just because of one misguided comment orcondemn you as '“isturbingly disordered”.
The Bible says, and the Church has always confirmed and attested them as such, that wilful murder, sodomy, oppression of the poor and depriving workers of their wages, are the four sins which cry to Heaven for vengeance. If you have a problem with that, take it up with its Author.
Yes to all 3
Who better to determine that than a bishop? Maybe if the Pope weighed in you would agree if he did right?I don’t get it, if I was completely opposed to a fundamental church teaching, no way would I subject my child to it (I used to feel that way about the Catholic Church altogether when I was lasped, and swore my kids wouldn’t be getting “brainwashed”. Yeah, God’s laughing at me now
). Like several posters have mentioned: there are other, more liberal, Christian schools (Episcopalian comes to mind, but there are others). I wouldn’t send my child to a fundamentalist school (there are several in my area), even if the academics were superior, knowing they would more likely than not be taught anti-Catholic dogmas. It’s the same thing, IMO. I’m just really not buying their reasons for wanting the kid to go to Catholic school. I do think it’s a political ploy. Call me parnaoid if you want, but that’s how I feel. 
Papa Bennie? Ha! Hell would freeze over first!Yes to all 3
I think what set me off to the right was my understanding (after working on child-sexual-assault cases) of Pedophillia:
So when I hear “pedophile,” I relate that term to a sexual predator who targets pre-pubescent children almost exclusively. Clinically, that person is deemed incurrable.
indeed il papa is very conservative, just the way i like it!
One, at most, of these two women, is his mother or his parent. The other can never possibly be his mother or his parent.
I doubt that they are chase and living together. If that was the case they would have stated that fact to the school authorities.Good job on stating the obvious
Is that what crusades and inquisitions were all about? How exactly did Christianity “win”? Oh right, at the edge of a sword. Kill and torture that which went against the teachings of Christ and the bible. But, maybe i’m wrong and there was a legitimate reason for Christianity coming into power not through years of bloodshed.
I know. Only recently have we begun pulling ourselves out of the dark ages(the smiley means i’m being facetious)
Assuming being LBGT is morally wrong, which is isn’t, even by Catholic standards. Being homosexual and acting on those urges are two separate things. If these women wish to live together and raise a child while being chaste is that a sin?
Short and sweet, homophobia is only going to look bad on the church like it does on the military.
Saying that one sin is objectively worse than another is not brushing the latter sin aside. Both are despicable grave sins. All other things being equal, obviously a lifetime pattern odf sin is worse than a one-off. Of course I know pediophilic tendencies are now thought to be usually incurable, but by “one-off” i obviously meant from the pooint of view of the effect on the victim who may be abused only once by a lifelong pedophile who preys on others; compared to the devastating effect of a child living his whole lifetime until adulthood in a household founded upon a sin crying to Heaven for vengeance.
You said “socially acceptable”, not “acceptable to the Catholic Church”. Look at the public outcry in society over the adultery of people like Tiger Woods. There would never be such an outcry over anyone’s homosexuality. In fact, if it is revealed that a married man has a series of homosexual “partners”, he is praised, not condemned by Western society, for having the supposed “courage” to “come out” and “face up to his true sexual identity” (even if he’s been heterosexual for 50 years and just recently “discovered that he’s gay”).
You’re probably right, but why not give them the benefit of the doubt? I haven’t seen or heard otherwise, have you?
We’re mostly saying the same thing. In fact, i’ve been saying that exact same thing. Define relationship for me. What acts are acceptable, such as in a friendship, distinguishable from a “relationship”?
That’s fine, but I think it’s still shameful to discriminate against a group of people for no good reason. Like I stated earlier, if you follow the bible literally then gays should be killed, which has been the case and might be in places in the middle east (I haven’t researched Islamic law in a while). Yet, this is not the case in modern progressive society. Why?
How can you possibly think that the child who is sexually abused is better off than a child who has never been abused? You have no idea of what happens to a child who is sexually (or otherwise) abused even once. That stays with the child for. the. rest. of. his. life. Even once. One touch is all it takes to mess up a child for life.
There seems no doubt in this case. I have seen no suggestion outside of this thread that the 2 lesbians may be chaste. Of course we must always put the most charitable possible stance on our brothers’ words, but if two women proclaim themselves as “a lesbian couple” and even claim to be “married” to each other, ther’s no reasonable doubt.
That’s exactly what the Church says. And in this case there are very good reasons.
Like I told you earlier, study Catholicism 101. The Catholic Church produced the Bible, but she is not a “bible-based church”. Christ gave St Peter the authority to free Catholics from the Levirate laws, and he used it.
very well said.I agree. Parents are the primary educators of their child in the truths of the faith as in every other way. Catholic schools are meant to HELP the parents in that task. Schools should be asking much tougher questions about why parents bother sending their kids to a Catholic school when the parents don’t even bother to go to Mass on Sundays or take their children to Mass or teach them their prayers and devotions and pray with them; and in some cases teach their children things, or live lifestyles, directly contrary to Catholic doctrine.
How can you possibly think that the child who is brought up in a household based on sodomy is not being greavely abused? His “issues” as you euphemistically describe them do not start only in adulthood! And he is truly messed up for life.