On May 21 the San Mateo Daily Journal reported: “A guest speaker pulled from lecturing at Notre Dame High School in late April following a controversial online post targeting him was welcomed back to the Belmont school last week following backlash from upset alumnae and current students.”
“Gregg Cassin was on campus Tuesday, May 13, and gave his presentation to the block 6 women in relationships class, following the administration’s decision to protect the school’s relationship with the gay activist who an online publication had criticized for working with the Catholic school. ‘California Catholic Daily’ posted an item taking issue with Notre Dame hosting Cassin, a guest speaker of the school who has lectured for the Women in Relationships course for the junior class yearly for more than 20 years about self-acceptance. The website took issue with Cassin’s work outside the classroom, as an activist for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered rights.”
The Daily Journal article continued: “Over Easter break, Notre Dame teacher Barbara Sequeira arranged for Cassin to come back to the school April 29 to make up for the missed day, which (head of school Maryann) Osmond didn’t find out about until April 28.”
CalCatholic’s article was one in an ongoing series documenting the infiltration into the departments of religious education of the high schools of the archdiocese of San Francisco by homosexual activists and their supporters. The Daily Journal article provides additional documentation: Barbara Sequeira, the teacher who, according to the Daily Journal, “arranged for Cassin to come back to the school April 29” is identified on the Notre Dame website as a member of the faculty for religious studies, and a campus minister.
The Daily Journal article quoted Mr. Cassin a number of times. He is troubled that Catholic bishops may be preparing to exercise their responsibility: “I think there is unfortunately this huge fear of different bishops and what they are doing with these morality contracts and how they are targeting gay teachers throughout the school system.” Mr. Cassin also said “The bishops coming up with these contracts are completely making schools unsafe for LGBT students. We know that when there is an LGBT role model at a school, kids feel they are included and safe.”
Coincidentally, on May 9 the Center for Disease Control issued their report on syphilis in the United States from 2005-2013. The report began “In 2013, based on data reported as of April 28, 2014, the rate of reported primary and secondary syphilis in the United States was 5.3 cases per 100,000 population, more than double the lowest-ever rate of 2.1 in 2000.” ….After being on the verge of elimination in 2000 in the United States, syphilis cases have rebounded…. Increases have occurred primarily among men, and particularly among MSM, who contributed the vast majority of male primary and secondary syphilis.” (MSM are men who have “sex” with men.) If Mr. Cassin is concerned about the safety of LGBT youth, emphasis on risks would be a first step.
While Notre Dame de Namur High School is under the control of a religious order, the school is listed as a Catholic school on the archdiocesan website and on the website of the San Francisco Department of Catholic Schools.
The Leadership Team of Notre Dame De Namur’s California province consists of: Sister Louise O’Reilly, Sister Georgianna Coonis, and Sister Virginia Unger. All may be contacted at: Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur Province Center, 1520 Ralston Avenue, Belmont CA 94002.
For the archdiocese of San Francisco, contact: Maureen Huntington, superintendent of Catholic Schools; Laura Held, assistant superintendent; Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone; all at the Archdiocese of San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco CA 94109.
Most important is to contact the principal of your local Catholic elementary schools. Almost all enrollment to Catholic High Schools come from Catholic elementary feeder schools.
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Teacher Barbara Sequeira should be fired for flagrant insubordination, underhandedness, and obvious intent to defy the mission and character of a Catholic school. Clearly displays the mind and tactics of an anti-Catholic leftist.
She has been schooled in Saul Alinskyite tactics well.
Get this through your heads, all you who would sympathize with Ms. Sequeira and her guest speaker: the Catholic faith will not and cannot change with regard to considering homosexuality to be an intrinsic disorder, nor regarding homosexual acts to be intrinsically evil and unable to be approved of under any circumstances, nor regarding same-sex unions to be gravely immoral with Catholics under moral obligation to oppose their recognition at all times, nor same-sex “marriage” as nothing but a mockery of true marriage. Any Catholic school worthy of the name would proudly, charitably, clearly, insistently, unrelentingly support and defend those doctrinal and moral principles. Anyone who will not support and defend them should not be a teacher or administrator at a Catholic school. Anyone who will contradict them either in word or by life witness should not be involved in a Catholic school in any capacity.
But you will see more defiance at Catholic schools in the future because militant homosexuals and their sympathizers have to compel the rest of society to accept their perversion of sex, love and marriage as the new normal, otherwise their illusion of normalcy in their own minds falls apart.
wait wait wait, where exactly do homosexual acts play into this scenario? There are ZERO homosexual acts. ZERO. Please try to play down your grandiose ideas about what is catholic and what is not.
It’s all infiltration. Pro-homosexual propagandists infiltrate the schools claiming to be just teaching a class when in reality they are activists whose agenda is to change the Church’s teachings on homosexuality, and if not get the kids while they are young and have them sympathize with their agenda..
Key is the ‘sympathize,’ Ronnie. All based on feelings and the desire to be perceived as ‘nice.’
Could not have said it better. As as student at Notre Dame I can testify that Gregg is an amazing speaker and Ms. sequeria should be rewarded for her actions. He spreads a message of love an acceptance and never ONCE has he mentioned anything about homosexual acts. As a huge catholic myself i can say quite honestly that his message he taught my class not only does not defy the teachings of the catholic church but also models the message of christianity as a whole
The point Megan is: has he distinguished between the orientation and the acts themselves to the students? If not, he leaves the impression with them that anything goes according to Church teaching, and the Church clearly states in their official catechisms down through history, including the very latest one, and in its Holy Bible that homosexual and lesbians acts are never, I repeat never, to be encouraged. If he does not do this, than he class is no good. He should also teach that the orientation is a disorder and why.
Swayer, great post! Saul Alinsky’s tactics ARE being used against the Catholic Church and her institutions.
Very excellent! Archbishop Cordileone needs to have these same convictions, and TAKE ACTION IMMEDIATELY!! And no more Church-collected funds to go to these immoral and heretical false “Catholic” schools!
Dear Lord Jesus, when will faithful Catholic teachers return to Notre Dame High School?
Blood of Christ, conqueror of the demons – Save us!
The fact that the author of this post throws in “coincidental” syphilis statistics about men, especially those who have sex with other men, in an article about a speech to women, mostly straight women, shows how little regard for journalistic integrity California Catholic Daily possesses.
Women can become some of these “male” statistics”, too, if they engage in some of this behavior. They need to know that such types of sexual behavior is neither safe nor diseases free but dangerous and disease ridden and why, and warn their offspring too.
Sure, and it is possible that a kid playing in a schoolyard can be struck by lightening on a sunny day. So let’s keep kids out of gym classes altogether, lest they might want to play soccer on a sunny day and get struck by lightening. No gym classes.
Yes, I know, what I just wrote makes no logical sense. Just the same as what you just wrote defending CCD making no sense. See, you can throw all kinds of unrelated stuff at a wall and see what sticks, or you can actually engage in logical conversation.
Interesting that hours later, Anne T. has not responded. I take it that she agrees with me that her arguments, and those from the article, are completely indefendable.
Oh, YFC, ye great pot stirrer, you know Anne T. is not in agreement with you despite how many hours pass. (Should we conclude that silence on your part implies consent? Oh, that such were true!)
As to your scenario with kids and gym class, if the gym clothes and the gym and the play yard are riddled with pox virus, then yes, cancel class. Do not just accept the risks because children have to play. Either that or clean up the mess and get real about that which is unhealthy and bad for kids.
Ann That Fellow dude is lying.
YFC – are you joining Satan, the father of LIES completely?
Just because someone does not answer you, your PRIDE lets you believe that they agree with you?
SODOMY is a MORTAL SIN. Sodomy is never ok.
If you do not repent, you will burn in Hell for eternity.
Gen 19:1-29; Rom 1:24-27; 1 Cor 6:10; 1 Tim 1:10.
CCC: 2357 & 2396.
It is never ok to teach youth to accept Mortal Sin as appropriate behavior.
Youth learn by example as well as by words.
Thanks, Auggie, for the solid observation!
yes, you caught me Auggie, I’m lying. I lied when implied that kids in gym classes could be gay. Because everyone knows, of course, that kids who are athletic could not possibly be gay!
And by the way, what is “this behavior”? What behavior are you talking about Anne T.?
YFC, Anne was responding to YOUR comments on May 26, 2014 at 6:59 pm.
You who call yourself YFC, I have more to do than just sit in front of a computer all day long, and you know very well the dangers of certain sexual behaviors. What is safe for faithful married heterosexual couples and what is not should be explained to women by good healthcare providers, including the dangers of certain behaviors, even though there is no sure prevention if the husband or wife is unfaithful . The rest one can be gotten on line from good MEDICAL — not pornographic — websites. You will get no information as to my husband’s and my private life, even though that is where I think you are digging, other than I have been married to the same man for over fifty years and have never had an STD, so neither I nor my husband are as stupid as you think.
LOL Anne I truly got a chuckle at the notion that I would be digging for information about your life with your husband. I was merely asking about your reference to “behaviors”. We may by now have lost (both of us) what you were referring to, but TRUST ME, I have less than no desire to know ANYTHING about your personal life.
YFC –
CCC: “2284 Scandal is an attitude or behavior which leads another to do evil. The person who gives scandal becomes his neighbor’s tempter.
He damages virtue and integrity; he may even draw his brother into spiritual death. Scandal is a grave offense if by deed or omission another is deliberately led into a grave offense.”
(Teaching youth that the mortal sin of sodomy is to be tolerated, is in itself a sin.)
CCC: ” 2338 The chaste person maintains the integrity of the powers of life and love placed in him. This integrity ensures the unity of the person; it is opposed to any behavior that would impair it. It tolerates neither a double life nor duplicity in speech.”
Sodomites are not chaste.
Anne T…. Events at my alma mater, UCSB show that young women are especially vulnerable they need information on the danger of misogynistic predators like the guy who killed all those people, avoiding STD’s if they choose to be sexually active… usually with men… They also need to know that they have the right to say “no” to sexual advances (I had my share of them there and they weren’t all verbal) and to be really careful with alcohol. I can see how a sensitive gay man might be especially effective in getting those ideas across. Of course, I assume you know that lesbians have a very low rate of STD’s compared to other groups.
If people did that in the workplace they could be fired and/or sued.
Universities can stop it anytime they want to by immediate dismissal from university for it.
C & H no Catholic high school needs an LGBT rights activist to tell them anything. The school (or rather, the parents) should be telling the children to live a chaste life until married. There would then be no need to educate them in how to avoid STD’s.
This is not a question about what a school “needs”. It is about bringing in an effective messenger to get a message across to a class of students. A man bullied in his youth, who overcame it effectively, might just be the right messenger to a class of girls. Twenty years of testimony indicates he’s a pretty good messenger.
Who said he was bullied?
Maybe you know him…
Depends on how one defines success, YFC. The young ladies who rush to the defense of the one-time bully are willing to do so at the expense of denying the Faith and the peril to Mr. Cassin’s soul in his story of acceptance.
So teaching the young to rally around that which is inherently against the Faith is no success for the Catholic.
Anon, I believe the press reports said this in one or more pieces on TV or print media.
I think his story is that he had challenges accepting himself because he was gay and Catholic. I think his story is one of overcoming self-hatred. Even in his “It Gets Better” video he does not mention having been bullied. He is a interesting person who seems to have done a lot to try to help others accept themselves as they are. I probably would not agree with some of his message (You are perfect as you are) because just as self-loathing was an important thing in his development, it is in everyone’s. It is part of the human condition because even the best of us have bad things about us. We are in a fallen state. And it is part of how we learn that we are not God and how we learn to love others who are imperfect because that is all that’s out there. Everyone has insecurities and everyone has things about themselves that they don’t like. Sometimes they keep you from doing things that you should do. Sometimes they keep you from doing things that you should not do. There are good things and bad things about everything, even self-loathing. I’ve never achieved this state, but they say that in union with God one becomes overwhelmed by one’s own nothingness and one’s own imperfections and evil and then of course, in comparison God’s goodness and perfection and infinite being. Most of the saints loathed themselves as a necessary part of loving God. But if self-loathing leads to feelings of self-destruction then it is from the evil one.
Anonymous I truly appreciate that you seem to have investigated his messages, in more depth than others, and that I myself had yet to uncover, and you have some thoughtful responses to his message. Thank you for your thoughtful post.
If, as you say, he was not bullied, or if I see somewhere that that was not his claim, then I am completely willing to retract any statements I made about his having been bullied.
As you and I agree, his message seems to be about overcoming self loathing, and as you point out quite rightly, self loathing is common among our teens of all sexual orientations, and we therefore need great messengers who have insights about how to overcome it.
Lesbian behavior is still wrong, C&H, because it is against the natural order, and with that said, I do not want to discuss it any further.
Amen to that Anne T. Somethings are just not debatable. You are awesome!
C&H, one can simply hand out the “Center for Disease Control Fact Sheet” on STDs (Sexually Transmitted Disease), and discuss (question and answer) it.
http://www.cdc.gov/…/STI-Estimates-Fact-Sheet-Feb-2013.pdf
There is no such thing as an activist/sodomist teaching anyone anything other than to accept the MORTAL SIN of sodomy.
We must never tolerate or accept Mortal Sin of any kind.
Anne T. I’m with you. And you know what they say “Abstinence works every time it is tried”!
YFC, Now I’m confused. I thought you were a fan of “coincidental syphilis“ :(
Wow, this person is not Christian at all.
mmee, why would you say such a thing?!!!!
Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals #4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
We all know Leftist have no rules!
It is just disgusting that I am forced by the editors of CCD to even answer what Tracy says: May 27, 2014 at 1:12 pm. She who conveniently for her own conniving ways altered my quotation marks, and completely obscures any semblance of meaning to either my comment or the ridiculous post by CCD originally.
Tracy. Who, pray tell, would be a fan of syphilis. In that you mangled my words and my quotation marks, you are as mangled as the words you yourself mangle, and so I pray for you.
YFC, no one is forcing you to respond to anything posted here on CCD. Oh and please do not tell us that your anonymous reputation will be ruined if you don’t respond.
Then syphilis should be part of the talk of accepting a gay lifestyle. There’s no mangling there, YFC. Just the reality of the ‘life’.
Ann Malley, the Cassin talk, as I understand it, is not about the “gay lifestyle”. It is about self acceptance, from what is reported. It is not a health class discussing STDs, or even a conversation about sexuality per se. Introducing syphillis statistics among men, in an inspriational talk to a group of women, is a random and spurious insertion by CCD editors to take an ad hominem swipe against Cassin. If Cassin DID give a talk about syphillis to these girls, don’t you think there would be a cry to high heaven from you and others here on CCD about how inappropriate that would be?
The lesson of self acceptance can be taught by many who have been bullied and for myriad reasons, YFC. But Notre Dame is a Catholic School. That said, outside of there being a certain agenda, that of fostering sympathy for those who advocate for the homosexual lifestyle, there is absolutely no logical reason for choosing Mr. Cassin for this talk. Unless, perhaps, if that acceptance speech is accompanied by the firm acceptance of Catholic moral teaching.
If Mr. Cassin is advocating celibacy in accordance with Catholic teaching, great. He is not as far as I have heard. The dissent he promotes on his website and the dissent of those who have listened to him speak is not the fruit of ‘acceptance,’ with regards to the Faith.
So, yes, I believe that part of his self-acceptance talk to these young women should be the whole enchilada of what one risks with said acceptance – syphillis is the least of it. Damnation is the more important reality.
The notion of random and spurious is an empty claim, YFC. What is truly spurious is the notion that accepting and indulging in the gay lifestyle doesn’t come without grave risk. And there’s nothing random about it. Thank God CCD isn’t intimidated like the leadership at Notre Dame who seeks to invite when nobody’s paying attention, dis-invite when the heat is on, and then re-invite to be edgy.
I wouldn’t be deriding CCD’s journalistic integrity, YFC, when you have serious issues with Catholic integrity and on a Catholic website. ‘Tossing’ in syphilis isn’t so much of a toss in when one considers that ‘accepting’ oneself as incapable of resisting gay sex can lead to increased incidence of venereal disease.
So while the talk that Mr. Cassin is giving is to impressionable and highly sympathetic females – those who fancy themselves the new champion of the underdog – I do hope that the reality of increased risk of disease is included. Much like accepting that one is driven to play on a freeway can lead to the higher likelihood of getting flattened by a semi-truck. IOW (In other words): that risk factor is part of what must be accepted.
Skipping that portion of the talk is unfair, misleading, and very dangerous – even for non-Catholics. But that a ‘Catholic’ school should advocate such a sympathy-driven agenda, is gross negligence in not doing one’s Catholic duty or it is cowardice in being too afraid to LEAVE an institution in which you have no true belief. It’s lukewarmness been tied up and sold as Catholic education.
And we know what Jesus said about the “lukewarm” – He would vomit them out of His mouth. Rev. 3:16
But, Nicholas, vomit is such a harsh and judgmental term. Oh. My. Goodness. It brings up nasty images. I… I feel bullied. Now I’ll sensitivity train myself into an ineffectual corner where I can garner sympathy for being inept and well, being in the corner. And if anyone tells me I put myself there, I’ll just close my eyes, click my heels 3 times, and say hater, hater, hater. That’ll make it all better.
Sorry for the sarcasm, but people seem to forget that Our Lord, for all of His mercy, and it is PLENTIFUL, does not pull any punches. For whereas He is perfectly God, He is also, without compare, the perfect man! In the fullness that is masculinity!
Thanks for the reminder.
Lukewarmness is hesitation or negligence in responding to divine love; it can imply refusal to give oneself over to the prompting of charity. CCC 2094
In the lukewarm person “What was once love of God deteriorates more and more into mere love of the law. What once was love of the truth is now merely a defense of the truth. What was once love of neighbor is now, at best, a desire to convert him. Perhaps one still talks about God, but one no longer talks with him.”
From Lukewarmness The Devil in Disguise
Ann Malley, you should not have a problem with this at all. You are the one who said that you should be welcomed, not just in spite of, but BECAUSE your public behavior indicates that you believe things other than what the Church teaches…so why would that not apply to Mr. Cassin, also?
Anonymous, you have said it with regard to lukewarmness. A Catholic School that does not respond to Divine Love by transmitting the Faith, but rather, by all appearances, seeks to undermine the teachings of the Church by way of eliciting sympathy is lukewarm. Half truths and guiding people to or endorsing that which leads to death now and eternal death in the hereafter is not charity.
Your divisiveness based on personal bias is no basis for Catholic discussion, Anonymous, as no matter what I state as to my position, you will disbelieve it and/or seek to undermine it as you seem to have made up your own mind. That’s the only reason why I can see that you seem intent on speaking to ‘me’ instead of sticking to the subject on which, for all intents and purposes, we agree.
If you actually read what I write, you as a believing Catholic should not take issue with what I’m saying. You do, however, because you seem to prefer tearing down the messenger instead of listening to the message – a man who advocates for the homosexual agenda against the teachings of the Catholic Church has no business being set up as a role model to impressionable youths.
I do not wish to undermine your message that teachers in a Catholic school should live and speak in conformity with the teachings of the Catholic Church. I just think you should apply the same standards you use with Mr. Cassin and this school to yourself. It is no more biased that your judgment of the school and it is not personal. It is a ethical standard on Catholic education.
Thank you for your reply, Anonymous, and for your encouragement.
When I comment regarding Mr. Cassin’s not having any business speaking at a Catholic school, I am using the standard of the Spirit of the Law, not the letter. After all, the man is not openly teaching about homosexual sex from what I understand. But I also understand, by way of the Spirit of the Law, that it is wrong to advocate the eliciting of sympathy for such a one who is opposed to Church teaching. Hence, by the letter, it could be said that the man is not doing anything outwardly wrong per se, but we all know the spirit at work in his inciting sympathy for the homosexual agenda. And it isn’t holy.
The Spirit of the Law is intended to give life to Faith, Anonymous, to nurture it so as to bear fruit. Sadly, it is often the case that the ‘letter’ of the law regarding Bishops is used to stifle Faith, obscure it, water it down, ignore it, persecute faithful and often outright refute the Faith.
So it is highly ethical in accordance with the standards of Catholic education that I would opt to home school my children. And keep them from the occasion of scandal as much as possible. You may not agree, but that is your opinion and your seeming fixation with following me around CCD to argue even though you seemingly agree with my comments on various articles.
Ann Maley, I did not realize that you had so totally misunderstood the whole situation. Mr. Cassin does not teach about or advocate for homosexual agenda. He is not there to elicit sympathy. His program is about self-acceptance.
So your objection to his being at the school is not because he advocates for things contrary to the moral law of the Church, but because his presence might lead the girls to sympathize with the gay agenda. Thank you for clearing that up. Then the comments he made about it being because he is gay would be true in your case, but not in mine. My issue is whether the school undermines the moral teaching of the Church by having an instructor who openly advocates for things against the Church’s teaching. So thank you for explaining why you oppose it. I don’t follow you around CCD. The elephant is in the room whenever you post even if no one mentions it.
Could be nobody else mentions it, Anonymous, because you seem to be the only one with elephant glasses on whenever you see Ann Malley :) But that’s okay. Follow for whatever reason you like. It’s a public forum.
My objection to Mr. Cassin speaking at the school with regards to self-acceptance is that it is not countered by voiced acceptance and reinforcement of Catholic teaching on the subject of gay sex. THAT kind of talk would be rather edifying at a Catholic school as I have learned through the years that those with same sex attraction that opt to be celibate out of love for Christ are often bullied by others with same sex attraction who advocate for a mis-guided acceptance.
Imagine, the double whammy of accepting one’s cross and accepting Church teaching being taught at a Catholic school. And yet, in a world gone wild, the most dynamic speaker Notre Dame can find is a man who advocates for that which is against the Church’s moral teaching. By omission when addressing the young girls at Notre Dame and by commission on his website.
So no, Anonymous, my objection it isn’t just because he suffers from same sex attraction.
It would be very helpful if the name of the Diocese, and contact information for the name of the Bishop in charge would be listed.
He should no longer allow this school to fraudulently advertise itself as “Catholic”.
” Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone;
Archdiocese of San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco CA 94109.”
Email? Phone number?
“Your Fellow Catholic”: Your comment, as with others on topics homosexual, are poor attempts to discredit the writer, rather than addressing the topic at hand. Head of School Osmond should be sacked. Mr. Cassin, as was extensively briefed in many prior blogs, has no business speaking — unless at a structured debate, or through a public apology — to Catholic school students. It is unlikely that Abp. Cordileone will do much, unfortunately. The sorry result is that a man drenched in self-love of his mortal sin will do all he can to dissemble and impress the gullible hearts of the young that he is a man to be admired, to be emulated, to be embraced (along with all homosexual sexualists). The inmates are running the asylum now in the Catholic Church. You may yet have your way and assist in turning the institutional Church (but not the real Catholic Church) into a sodomite-enabling entity, even more than it already is. Your supercilious comment on the syphilis is laughable: parents should be running to running to Notre Dame and shouting, “Do you know what you are doing?” This man promises only to open the door to evil, nothing more. Nothing, nothing supports bringing him back to Notre Dame to attempt to normalize viewpoints about homosexuality. This is a disgraceful decision; Head of School Osmond is a coward, and unworthy to steer a Catholic educational institution. Parents should pull their kids out of the N.D. now, after telling the good Archbishop how thoroughly disgusted they are by the failure to protect their children.
The writer doesn’t need me to discredit him or her. The writer discredits himself by throwing in completely unrelated things. A person (who in this case happens to be gay), annually speaks with girls about how he overcame bullying and found that he could overcome it if he listened God’s loving voice and discovered value in his own being.
And now, since this apparently offensive message to the powers that be at CCD and its followers was not headed, the writers and editors threw in statistics about sexually transmitted diseases, as though that has any relation whatsoever to the topic at hand.
And, can I just ask you, what exactly is a homosexual sexualist? This is a term I have only ever seen here on CCD, and I am left to imagine what you mean when you write such a silly made up word. Even my spell checker vomits at the term “sexualist”.
Homophobe used to be an unknown word too until it was invented and pushed on society by those seeking to normalize the homosexual agenda. In that sense, this “what does the word mean?!” is too comical. Much like your continued ranting against CCD.
If you don’t like it, don’t read it, YFC. Same thing with the Catholic Church and what She teaches. If you don’t like it, what are you doing outside of agitating when you stay within an organization to which you are so vehemently opposed?
As for vomiting, the Catholic Church should vomit forth the lukewarmness being pushed at schools like Notre Dame under the guise of sensitivity, anti-bullying training, etc. Homosexual behaviors are not healthy for mind or body, YFC. So while ‘bullying’ is not Christian, the withholding of the fullness of truth as a solution to bullying is no solution as it negates the far greater risk of promoting physically and spiritually fatal error. Bad bandaid.
I’m still waiting for one of these Progressive schools to haul in Michelle Obama for sensitivity training for her continued persecution of genetically full-figured children and those with high metabolic rates. This one size fits all caloric intake nonsense is cruel in the extreme.
Correction: “such types of sexual behavior ARE”.
The big question is “when will Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone address this scandal that is taking place at NDHS in Belmont”? Surely the Archbishop has heard about this from enough concerned Catholics in the Bay Area to step in and tell the Sisters of Notre Dame that what they are teaching is totally wrong. As SAWYER stated so well in his posting, Barbara Sequeira should be fired. She has poisoned NDHS for many years and continues to do so. It has to stop and the only person who can do it is AB Cordioleone. And to think that students at NDHS were once expelled for smoking and now with the help of the “Little Black Book” recommended by the Sisters of Notre Dame, they know where to go to obtain an abortion.
“Like most of my presentations at high schools and universities, themes of self-acceptance, owning one’s own life story, and the appreciation of differences in the communities in which we live. Simply by telling my own story – a journey towards self-acceptance – students get to reflect on their own journies and what a powerful opportunity it is to work on self love and appreciation. It’s the perfect antidote to bullying and negativity in our schools.” This is from Greg Cassins website. It sounds all nice and fuzzy. We are to love ourselves, but to what end. Not all roads lead to heaven and taking others down the wrong road is especially evil.
lisag, thank you for this post. Mr. Cassin’s views do not have any place in a Catholic school. His VIEWS would be, and indeed are, most welcome in almost any public school.
Mr. Cassin, instilling a knowledge and love for the Ten Commandments is the perfect antidote to bullying and negativity in our schools.
Tracy you just contradicted yourself. You said, and I am now quoting, “Mr. Cassin’s views do not have any place in a Catholic school. His VIEWS would be, and indeed are, most welcome in almost any public school.”
On the one hand you say that Mr Cassin’s views do not have any place in a catholic school, yet you turn right around and say his veiws would be and are most welcome.
How do you compare and contrast those views. Which are his views that he taught at NMD that you think are not compatible with a Catholic education. PRECISELY which views are you speaking about?
YFC, maybe I should ask you; Which views of Mr. Cassin’s “that he taught at NMD” (those are your words) do YOU think ARE compatible with a Catholic education?
As the viewpoints of Mr. Cassin’s, (posted on his website), are antithetical to the Catholic faith, he should not be allowed to conduct a retreat to students at any Catholic school, period.
Anyone who thinks Mr. Cassin’s views should not be welcome at a Catholic school has a very narrow view of Catholicism and Catholic education. Mr. Cassin’s message is one of love and acceptance.
I understand the desire to be perceived as kind, Anonymous, but it is not just anyone who advocates that which you perceive as narrow:
Matthew 7:13
“…Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat.”
The folks you disagree with aren’t just making stuff up to be cruel or closed minded.
Like you, Tracy, I have not heard Mr. Cassin’s talk to these young women, but from what I gather from what they themselves have written here and in other press, his message is one of how his journey to self acceptance and love helped him overcome vicious bullying in school. Is this somehow in contradiction to some Church teaching?
Instilling a knowledge and love for the Ten Commandments is the perfect antidote to bullying and negativity in our schools.
Your focus on Tracy is a distraction from the real matter of a person who advocates publicly for that which goes against the teachings of the Catholic Church being introduced as a role model for impressionable children – and overly impressionable sentimental adults, judging by the poor leadership skills demonstrated by the leadership at Notre Dame High School.
I say poor leadership because the message is to do what you want and what you feel like instead of upholding the actual doctrine and values of the organization to which one purportedly belongs. If the teachings are only man-made, then fine, change from within might be a plausible motto. The Church teaches that Her doctrines come forth from God, however, and, as such, it is counterproductive for this school to conduct business as if they do not.
It’s a form of cowardice, YFC, to say you’re one thing and then do another.
I’m just not sure where you get the notion that Cassin is advocating “do whatever you want” at this school. You can’t just make up what you imagined him to have said and then condemn him for it. Well, I guess you feel you can, since you don’t seem to have a love for the eighth commandment. Perhaps Tracy can help you with that.
YFC, I intimated that the ‘do whatever you want’ with regard to the faith is being promoted by the school leadership. Mr. Cassin didn’t force his way into the school. School leadership is well aware of what message they are allowing into the school and what effect they want to produce – faithful Catholicism isn’t it.
Please don’t fly off the handle just because you want to defend a fellow same-sex advocate and call it Catholic.
As to your referencing the eighth commandment, I suggest you step down from rash judgment and read more carefully. Talk about your random assertions and tossing Tracy into the mix was just juvenile.
Thanks Lisag — Cassin: “students get to reflect on their own journies”
It’s journeys! GRRRR.
https://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Journeys
It is the school administration. It wants to instill tolerance in the students, as long as it’s the administration/progressive tolerance. any other view is condemned as “hate.” we are losing the war against evil.
Arness Barts, do not loose heart. Remember the parable of the weeds and the wheat. Jesus Christ wins in the end!
How are the syphyllis statistics release coincidental with Greg Cassin? It has nothing to do with any part of the rest of the article.
Also, a study was just published that showed that when people have a child, their brains change. Men and women respond differently. Gay men’s brains adopted the changes of both men and women. Looks like they may be the super parent: their brains develop the benefits of *both* men and women!
“Anonymous”: Homosexual sexuals should never be parents. Certainly the literature will now be full of simply unbelievable theories of politically inspired nutters like whoever wrote the unidentified “study” you mention. While Catholic teaching talks about “respecting” homosexual persons, the Church also focuses on the “disorder” of homosexuality and of the overt “sinfulness” of any kind of sexual expression that is homosexual. Homosexuals are hardly “super parents” when their disorder renders them unfit to mould a child’s character, morals, and the like. Homosexual sexualits remain wilfully negligent in their refusal to accept their limitations, including parenting. Of course, “politics” can give homosexuals some cover here, but politics supported Herod’s killing of the Holy Innocents, too (it was “legal” after all). Homosexuals should decide to follow the Church’s teachings, live a chaste life, and give constant testimony that their trial — and every Christian believes that being homosexual is a trial — can be overcome, particularly with God’s grace. Catholics will be allies in this kind of difficult effort.
Mr. Cassin also said “The bishops coming up with these contracts are completely making schools unsafe for LGBT students”.
Here we go again – the “safety” issue. We all know that the anti-bullying program is cover for pushing the “gay agenda”. No one is fooled, except the poor kids of course! Sitting targets. Where’s the school chaplain in all of this? Such an immoral situation: (
Nicholas, thank you for your post.
So Mr. Cassin holds the belief that teaching sound Catholic Doctrine is dangerous to a disordered way of thinking. Hmm, I must say on that one I would have to agree with him! The truth does set one free after all!
This virtual apology and “reversal” of a prior policy decision to un-invite, now to invite, Mr Cassin bears a striking parallel to the similar policy reversal and grovelling self-abasement of the leadership of Sacred Heart-Cathedral High regarding the yearbook picture of cross-dressing Jessica Urbina (“Sacred Heart Backs Down,” May 20th, 2014, CCD).
I think what Ronnie and Michael McD each observed there something very insightful about the assault that is now going on, here and soon in general everywhere. Quoting their insights slightly edited here:
1) Ronnie’s comment 5/22/14: “[First is] victimization, then discrimination, next intimidation, then coercion,…”
[Now we are at the 5th step, which we are somewhat at, is criminalization of those who do not acquiesce to the agenda.]
2) Michael McD’s comment 5/22 quoting in part from Dr. Anthony Daniels’ writings: that the purpose of “propaganda is not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponds to reality the better.”
These two observations of Ronnie & Michael McD, again, are profoundly complementary again, here, because these two parallelg situations at Notre Dame & Sacred Heart-Cathedral are entirely unreal: but the purpose of the pro-agenda advocates is becoming more and more fixated on both humiliating and also punishing their ideological opponents, their institutions, and eventually the entire Church leadership, and thus disempowering them all completely.
“Your Fellow Catholic” and “Anonymous” and others: You refuse, simply and completely refuse to see the clear contradiction of almost all that you say and Catholic doctrine. Mr. Cassin exemplifies a vile and corrupt lifestyle; his message of “courage” is no more convincing than whether Lucifer was courageous in disobeying God (when L. clearly knew that he could not win — how is your Milton? “Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven,” Paradise Lost, Book 1, line 263). In fact, Cassin, by his appearing to the young, is nothing more than a seducer, trying to show the wonders of his way of life. And, what better way to show the “Springime” of homosexual behavior than to lift the sheets to show the truly awful specter of disease and physical degradation — like syphilis — that surely awaits most MSM practitioners. Homosesxuals detest any mention of the sure-to-follow diseases and death that follow its adherents (there is no “healthy homosexual sex). Of course, “homosexual sexualists” is a generous way to focus on those that have sex with others of their gender, and not those that are “homosexual” by present nature alone. Homosexuals that stop having sex, and repent, are certainly all welcome to salvation; that is the Catholic message. All that school children need to know is that homosexual sex is morally wrong, always, and is an enormous offense against God, threatening, if not destroying, the soul of its practitioner (the homosexual sexualist). If Mr. Cassin wants to say this — which he certainly does not wish to say — then no Catholic would oppose his appearance.
Another Notre Shame!
I am a practicing Catholic and a proud Notre Dame alumni. Your interpretation of Catholism is ignorant, narrow-minded and offensive. There have been homosexuals for all of human history. They have not now or ever posed a threat to society. Catholism teaches that we are to love and accept one another, to treat each other with dignity and respect. Your insinuation that the presence of gays leads to getting diseases is ignorant. Sexually transmitted diseases come from have unprotected sex, period. That’s not gender specific. Please educate yourself before trying to educate others.
Maybe the education can begin with the proper spelling of “Catholicism”. Or maybe this is how they spell it at Notre Dame Hi/Belmont.
What a GREAT education you received from Notre Dame about “Catholism” [sic]! The fact that you spelled it that way twice means it was not an error; it comes from your misinformed mind. The rest of the trite blather you spewed comes straight out of the liberal handbook of cliches. You did not receive a good education, my dear. Your understanding of Catholicism is severely impoverished; par for the course at Notre Dame, it seems. Oh, and your closing sentence is exquisitely ironic.
deanna, first and foremost Jesus commanded us to love the Lord our God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength. He commanded us to shun sin and the devil. He taught us to admonish the sinner. Jesus commands us to love our neighbor as ourselves, but if we hate ourselves by condoning our own sins then we will hate our neighbor by condoning their sins.
“And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness; it will be for those who walk on that Way. The unclean will not journey on it; wicked fools will not go about on it.” Isaiah 35:8
deanna, and please wake up. Sexually transmitted diseases are caught from having sex with someone who is infected with one or more of the many STI’s. Condoms have been proven to provide very little to no protection from most STI’s. And yes, I am well educated to this fact!
Among St. Peter Damian’s most famous writings is his lengthy treatise, Letter 31, the Book of Gomorrah (Liber Gomorrhianus), containing the most extensive treatment and condemnation by any Church Father of clerical pederasty and homosexual practices. [2] His manly discourse on the vice of sodomy in general and clerical homosexuality and pederasty in particular, is written in a plain and forthright style that makes it quite readable and easy to understand. In keeping with traditional Church teachings handed down from the time of the Apostles, he holds that all homosexual acts are crimes against Nature and therefore crimes against God who is the author of Nature.
The spiritual and physical penalties declared by the 4th Century architect of Eastern monasticism, St. Basil of Cesarea (322-379AD), for the cleric or monk caught making sexual advances (kissing) or sexually molesting young boys or men. ..the convicted offender was to be whipped in public, deprived of his tonsure (head shaven), bound in chains and imprisoned for six months, after which he was to be contained in a separate cell and ordered to undergo severe penances and prayer vigils to expedite his sins under the watchful eye of an elder spiritual brother. Every civilized culture has had a rigid taboo against pederasty and sodomy. Ms. coonradt, you’re letter is most offensive to all believing and faithful Catholics (as opposed to ‘practicing’ neo-Catholics) throughout Church history, and your lack of charity and compassion for those of same sex attraction makes me very sad. Either you don’t believe what our beloved Jesus said about hell and damnation or you don’t care if these suffering souls spend an eternnity cut off from all goodness and hope. Either way, you are heartless and to coin a phrase from your little post “Please educate yourself before trying to educate others.” e
Deanna coonradt, please explain why you think it’s okay for the University of Notre Dame to give an honorary degree to Barrack Obama, the most pro-abortion, anti-Catholic President in the history of America. Why is it okay for Father Jenkins at Notre Dame to have a 80 some year old priest arrested for walking on campus saying his Rosary. The priest was handcuffed with his hands behind his back like some criminal. You claim to be a Catholic and you find what goes on at Notre Dame acceptable? It truly is NOTRE SHAME!
You do get that we are not talking about UND here, we are talking about Notre Dame High School in Belmont. You get that, right?
Sexually transmitted disease is the result of inappropriate sexual contact. Your comments regarding unprotected sex sound more appropriate to a secular health class, not the nature of human sexuality or a discussion of what the Catholic Faith actually is – not anyone’s interpretation.
Please educate yourself on what the faith actually consists of instead of what you feel it should be. Scripture, the CCC, and the teachings of the Church fathers are a lot safer place to learn the realities of the faith than from those who wish to change it under the pretext of having ‘arrived.’ Every generation likes to think of themselves as enlightened.
Also, loving someone means you want what is best for them. Indulging them in a lifestyle of that which is not healthy and can also lead to eternal damnation is not love, Deanna. We are to help our brothers and sisters to be faithful, much like we would help an alcoholic by removing the occasion of sin and providing the necessary support to keep him/her on the straight and narrow. Out of love. Although an alcoholic, when they’re in desperate need of a drink, will make you feel like the biggest louse.
But hey, true love is difficult. Like being crucified for doing the ‘right’ thing even when your friends spit on you or say you should have just avoided Jerusalem all together.
To all that advocate acceptance, toleration, indoctrination and support for homosexuality should be deeply ashamed of calling themselves “Catholic” and should repent and do penance for their mortal sin. What was once a disgusting perversion is now, through the influence of Satan himself, accepted as “normal”.
To commit mortal sin, or influence others to commit mortal sin, is spiritual death, those who practice this twisted “lifestyle” risk both spiritual and physical death. All the semantic gymnastics practiced by “YFC” and others in this site will avail them nothing when they stand before God and are required to give account of themselves. To all these people I say, if you cannot accept Catholic teaching on this deadly “lifestyle”, please depart from us and peddle your poison to some “church” that embraces it.
Thank you!!!
Solidarity
We are one human family whatever our national, racial, ethnic, economic, and ideological differences. We are our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers, wherever they may be. Loving our neighbor has global dimensions in a shrinking world. At the core of the virtue of solidarity is the pursuit of justice and peace. Pope Paul VI taught that “if you want peace, work for justice.” The Gospel calls us to be peacemakers. Our love for all our sisters and brothers demands that we promote peace in a world surrounded by violence and conflict.
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin’
Please get out of the new one
If you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’.
You’re not kididng time are a changing…Rapidly going to Hell…..Love your sons and daughters unconditionally but don’t forget to tell them the truth..that the wages of sin are always death of the body as well as the soul….
Susan, there is nothing new about the “new morality”, is it as the Rev. Billy Graham once said, “just the old immorality gift wrapped and sold as new.” AIDS is not a “new” disease, it is as old and older than the Old Testament. It goes away when people behave themselves better and comes back when they do not, and the germs, or whatever, that causes it often mutate and become resistant to antibiotics, etc., and a new strain develop. The Bible mentions the wasting disease from sexual misbehavior that even wiped out armies at times. There is nothing new about it.
By the way, some ancient civilizations even had indoor plumbing, and long gone civilizations even might have had electricity and more things that we consider to be “modern”, so Solomon was pretty much right in the book of Proverbs when he said, “There is nothing new under the sun.”
Really, Anne T you have evidence that the AIDS virus has been around for 2 thousand years? Please share that evidence or journal article with us! It’s a virus, not a bacteria, so antibiotics, which by the way are less than a hundred years old, would not have been a factor. So please, enlighten us with your data about AIDS. Or did you just make that up too?
You who call yourself, YFC, need to beware lest you be guilty of the sin of presumption and lead others down that road too. The sin of presumption, and it is in the Catechism, is to go ahead and sin seriously with the idea that the LORD has to or will forgive you, or that one will have the time to repent before one dies. There is no guarantee that will happen if one willfully continues to sin seriously. In fact one can destroy ones conscience that way. See “Seven Ways to Kill a Conscience” on line. You who call yourself YFC push so-called same-sex marriages and that is mortally sinful as it encourages all kinds of seriously bad behavior, and with that said, I will not discuss this further with you..
And Tracy, most likely the posters who call themselves YFC and What Did You Say are the same person posing as different people., or YFC gets his “buddies” to post on line. Nevertheless, they cannot be so stupid that they really do not know that what they are advocating is wrong. Now I am off of this article for good. Bye all.
Dear Anne T., you see that you lost the argument regardless of who is posting, so you conveniently switch the topic. You make up facts, then you get called on it, then, you switch topics to your favorite topic of YFC being a sinner because he loves another person.
BTW, in case you didn’t notice, I noted on another thread that WDYJS = YFC. Not hiding anything, just trying to get people’s attention to the ridiculous things that get posted here.
Anne T. I whole heartily agree. The tone of all of these anonymous posters are one in the same with that of YFC. I have noticed for several months now that ‘they’ seem to be part of YFC’s not so clever tag ‘team’. One of those cloned anonymous posters recently made the demand that we need to follow the ‘ten posts a day rule’! “What did you say?”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A clarification: I said that AIDS was probably older than the Old Testament since the Old Testament was first transmitted orally and then written down.
Sorry, I mistakenly claimed you said that AIDS had been around for 2 thousand years. You said before the Old Testament which means it would have been around for several thousand years. Oh right, you must be correct. Yes, we must have had AIDS for a lot longer, because, of course, Jesus went around Galilea healing those with AIDS.
I should have used the term AIDS type diseases for the many wasting diseases mentioned through out the Bible from sexual misconduct, and I used the term antibiotics for use in some sexual disease, of course not AIDS. The Holy Bible speaks frequently about wasting diseases from sexual misconduct, and there is no doubt that some of these were AIDS or AIDS like. Do you really think that this generation is so “special” that they got a disease that no one has every gotten before this? Not likely. The Lord Jesus did not continue to heal people who did not stop doing the very things that caused their diseases in the first place after he healed them. After all, he told the woman he saved from stoning for sexual misconduct to go and sin no more lest something worse happen to her. In other words, the Lord Jesus was telling her that next time, if she continued in her behavior, she could suffer worse consequences for her actions. One good book on this subject, though written by Protestant authors is “None of These Diseases” by S.I. McMillen, M.D. and David E. Stern, M.D. Although an older book, it tells about such Biblical diseases.
“If you listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, who heals you” (Exodus 15:26). The Israelite priests were using hyssop, an antiseptic, ages before Europeans and Americans even discovered such a thing. They were way ahead of the Egyptians in their medical practice. They did not marry their own brothers and sisters either as some of the Egyptians did, especially the royalty.
And yes, we do need to find a cure for AIDS; nevertheless, a change of bad behavior is necessary, too, or some other horrific STD will pop up, besides the other ones that are still incurable.
OK you completely took AIDS out of context, but if you have other specific sightings, I will be interested. I don’t think there is any conclusive evidence in scripture that sexually transmitted diseases were any more likely to be healed by Jesus than any other diseases.
In other words, you just made stuff up, Anne T., right, when you talked about AIDS and antibiotics and the Bible, right, because you wanted to invent some nexus among the three that doesn’t exist. Now you are inventing random wasting diseases due to sexual misconduct throughout the Bible. Ummm, where can I find those references?
“What did you say?” Maybe you should learn from Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals rule #7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
One of the Egyptian pharaohs, I forget his name now, was born with the hips of a woman. Most archeologists say it was because his mother and father were sister and brother.
Actually they have now found out that Pharaoh Tutankhamum did not have the hips of a woman, but was just symbolically portrayed in that manner. Nevertheless, he did have some slight deformities.
What did you just say??? What?
Anne T, stop casting pearls! These intransigent heretics are most assuredly not seeking truth but a name-calling, spittle-flecked rumble on the playground during recess. Shake off your sandals and go to those who do not know what they do not know and not try reasoning with those who think they know more than God. Fear of The Lord is the beginning of wisdom . I get the feeling they only fear what others of their kind think. God bless you in your efforts, though.
I am not making “stuff” up because archeologists are still debating about why Pharaoh Tutankhamum was portrayed on Egyptian tombs with the hips of a woman. If you are serious, you can look it up on line yourself. End of discussion!
Mass Resistance ( http://www.massresistance.org ) is one of the premier clearing houses for information about the Attack on Society by the ‘happy campers’ and their hangers on, who take in a lot of tax money to spread such Hate:
“Gay agenda creeping into all curriculum
Bob Kellogg (OneNewsNow.com) Thursday, May 29, 2014
At their annual conference in Boston, LGBT teachers and homosexual activists revealed their continuing plans to push the gay agenda even further into schools.
It was GLSEN’s 2014 Annual Conference where attendees introduced and discussed strategies for furthering homosexuality and transgender issues in the minds of students, according to Brian Camenker of MassResistance…
He says the conference directly organizes and trains teachers to integrate the gay agenda throughout curriculum.
“You wouldn’t think you could integrate homosexuality into much, but they do by saying something like “a woman does this and her wife does this,” he explains. “They will bring in homosexual themed books…..”
Camenker says many parents are unaware of what is taking place, or many are afraid to say anything for fear of reprisals.
– See more at: https://onenewsnow.com/education/2014/05/29/gay-agenda-creeping-into-all-curriculum#.U4ecuihyHdk
THE NEXT ASSAULT:
Homosexual legal group in Massachusetts files papers to force Catholic school to hire man who’s “married” to another man — despite school’s refusal
The next step of the “gay marriage” agenda is about to begin here in Massachusetts. It’s the push to use the legal system to force religious organizations to include homosexuality and transgenderism…
Targeting religious organizations that refuse to change
Historically, GLAD acts very strategically. From transgenderism to public sex to gay marriage, they take on high-profile cases in order to force changes on society.
This case represents the beginning of the homosexual movement’s legal assault on conservative churches, particularly Catholic,
that have steadfastly refused to modify their religious convictions and comply with the homosexual movement’s demands on society. Up until now they’ve been largely left alone. But that’s about to change.
https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen2/14a/Fontbonne-school/index.html
If the Bishop’s conference in MA is smart it will adopt the same rules with the same language as that of Bishop Barber in Oakland Diocese regarding teachers at Catholic schools.
https://cal-catholic.com/wordpress/2014/04/07/oakland-diocese-teachers-asked-to-behave-like-catholics/
This has already been adjudicated for a Lutheran School at the US Supreme Court level. And the School won.
It’s all in using the correct legal terminology – defining what it means to be a teacher in a Catholic School, and accurate wording in employment contracts, and consistent enforcement of contracts.
“There have been homosexuals for all of human history. They have not now or ever posed a threat to society. ”
Hmmmmm… So much for the credibility of this Troll. Homo-Anal coprophiles have indeed been found in societies since ancient times, although All Procreation was and remains Heterosexual, and it is only modern Turkey Baster Creationist technology and laws that have made it Seem otherwise.
As for Threats to Society – the Slave Keeper Spartan Pederast Warrior cults were only a threat to Non-Spartans, so if you limit society to violent slave keepers there may be a kernel of truth to root out from the offal.
Likewise the Homo-Anal Warrior cults that pushed Germany through three Wars (Franco – Prussian / WW-1 & 2) and nearly destroyed the world the last time around, when Homosex Terrorist Storm Trooper founder Ernst Rohm led the way & his syphilitic prostitute protege Hitler followed up after assassinating Rohm.
But why let politically incorrect Historical Facts interfere with Gaystapo Propaganda spews interfere with ‘happy’ Mau Mauing on behalf of all that is “ignorant, narrow-minded and offensive” about the Trolls here – unless DeeDee has some deeper insight in to the following contradictory Facts:
SEE
The Strange, Strange Story of Gay Fascists.- by Johann Hari.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-strange-strange-story_b_136697.html
The lost boys of Afghanistan by: JOEL BRINKLEY.
https://www.startribune.com/opinion/101505674.html
I teach in a high school and there are many administrators who are pushing the gay marriage. They work in a catholic school and the main problem that I have is that I can respect other people’s choices, they can live their lives whatever they want, but they do not respect my way of life. If I tell them that I believe in traditional marriage between a man and a woman, then I am a target. Why?
Dear friends, “Jesus had perhaps his harshest criticism for those who lead young people astray… There is no room for scandal in a Catholic school.”
That’s what I told Catholic News Agency back in January, and Catholic schools continue to face the issue of how to ensure teachers are good role models for students. You know that it’s increasingly challenging these days to live up to Catholic teachings—so it’s imperative that Catholic schools do all they can to remove scandals and help students build up their faith.
I was heartened this week to hear that the Diocese of Oakland became the latest diocese to update teachers’ contracts to better reflect their duties in Catholic schools. Bishop Michael Barber amended the contract to articulate the “expectations required of those who desire to participate in this mission and ministry.” Unfortunately, the naysayers—including Fr. Thomas Reese—have been ready with barbs to undermine efforts to strengthen Catholic identity in our schools.
But faithful Catholic education is the future, and they know it! Last week we worked with leaders from faithful Catholic colleges to consider how to integrate Catholic teaching into programs for students. And here’s another good sign: despite faculty opposition, Seton Hall University “stood firm” and hosted pro-life Catholic author Mary Eberstadt for commencement. Here’s to the future!
“Deanna Coonradt”: Your comment suggests the problem regarding what is, and has been, taught about homosexuality, and was has not. In fact, homosexual sexualists today are different in demanding a “place at the table” regarding society’s acceptance of their “relationship(s)”. Certainly there has always been homosexual sex; but your reading of its “acceptance” is simply wrong. Homosexual sex earns the wrath of God, not His love, in the Bible. Homosexual sex is, and always has been, a mortal sin and completely and always unacceptable to all committed Catholics. Catholics can no more accept homosexual sex than they can accept abortion activities. Further, disease does follow homosexual sex. The US Centers for Disease Control, and other worldwide reporting services on such things, document the deadly path of many kinds of STDs, most famously AIDS, that are linked most notably to homosexual sex (yes, you can get these things in other ways, but putting aside drug use, homosexual sex is by far the greatest enabler of such diseases). Love homosexual persons, yes, but not ever the sexual parts of what they do. If you did not learn this at Notre Dame, then you were mis-educated.