The following comes from a November 13 Cardinal Newman Society article by Adam Cassandra:
As Catholic school districts in Canada struggle to develop and implement “transgender policies,” one priest in the Diocese of Saskatoon in Saskatchewan, Canada, told The Cardinal Newman Society that any school policies or programs leading students to embrace gender “identities” will “inevitably hurt students who are trying to live the Catholic Faith.”
“I can say that embracing these identities can be very troublesome and hurtful for all students, not just those who are dealing with transgender issues. Embracing an identity means that our whole life meaning becomes consumed by something that is superficial, something that does not penetrate to the core of who we are,” said Father Gregory Roth in an interview with the Newman Society.
Before being forced to do so by the provincial government, the Saskatchewan Catholic School Boards Association started a process to draft policies on the pastoral care of transgender students and how to handle student requests for gay-straight alliances in the schools of Saskatchewan’s dioceses.
Back in March, the Saskatchewan Catholic School Boards Association held two in-service sessions on transgenderism as part of its policy recommendation effort. The association’s executive director Ken Loehndor told the Newman Society that experts were invited to help those in attendance better understand the transgender issue. But alarms were raised following the events about “gay activists” being involved in the process.
A report posted on the Archdiocese of Regina website mentions the guest speakers at the symposium discussing acceptance of transgender identities.
LifeSiteNews reported on the event, pointing to the controversial nature of the participants as “gay activists” who reject some of the Church’s teachings and give “tacit approval to ‘gender theory’ — which has been condemned on three occasions by Pope Francis and at least once by his predecessor Pope Benedict.”
A Timely and Telling Truth:
“Gay Gestapo bullies transgenders
https://www.renewamerica.com/columns/fischer/151113
A screeching catfight has broken out in the non-normative sexuality crowd.
For years, the homosexual posse has consisted of the LGBTs – lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders. Well, it looks like those days are over. The LGBs want to kick the Ts out of the club…
An online petition, “Drop the T,” calls on Big Gay groups like HRC, GLAAD, and Lambda Legal to separate themselves from the transgender community. It’s garnered over a thousand signatures already.
Two particularly telling portions, the petition:
“The infringement of the rights of individuals, particularly women, to perform normal everyday…
What in the world is going on in Canada!? Why have not the bishops spoken out in defiance of the state sponsored heresies? The archdiocese in San Francisco has fought hard against such intrusions against doctrine. ( See the One Mad Mom blog.) I doubt if those schools can call themselves “Catholic” if they capitulate. I would “raise hell” if my children were exposed to such things in parochial schools here. Deacon Vince
FRC warns of nationwide ‘bathroom bill’ in Senate
https://www.onenewsnow.com/culture/2015/11/17/frc-warns-of-nationwide-bathroom-bill-in-senate?
Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council notes that U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) is sponsoring the “Equality Act,” – mirrors the non-discrimination bill that was recently defeated by voters in Houston, Sprigg tells OneNewsNow:
“It does not make any exception for facilities in which there’s a normal expectation of privacy from the opposite sex such as restrooms, locker rooms and showers,” Sprigg warns. “So it would be a bathroom bill on a national level being forced on all 50 states.”
“These are unlike the characteristics that have historically been protected in…
This is happening in Canada, but still, it’s beginning to happen here. There is a movement to make bathrooms, locker rooms, etc., etc., “transgender,” and certainly to teach all this acceptance and crap in ELEMENTARY schools has been going on for years already – be it ever so stealth.
Aren’t you glad your kids aren’t in school now???? If you DO have children in school, be ever, ever vigilant. Even so, the schools will indoctrinate them away from you. Home schooling never looked so good.
I still don’t get the “willing suspension of disbelief” in the general Boobus Americanus population. You either have a “Y” chromosome or you don’t. Easy, no? If you do, you’re a MAN. If you don’t, you’re a WOMAN. Period. End…
Laura, there are some people born with ambiguous genitals, but they are rare. They, or course, have the right to corrective surgery, but it is best done when they are an adult and can make the decision for themselves. They should have locked unisex restrooms for such people who are undergoing such procedures for their own privacy and the privacy of others, and doctors’ notices if they are in a school. Nevertheless, it has gone too far the other way where they are letting those who just think or just say they are the opposite sex and who have no physical deformity create chaos, and that is not right.
The Catholic Church should deal with facts, not fantasies. A female is born with two XX chromosomes, and a male is born with one X and one Y chromosome. These are facts that cannot be changed. No amount of hormones or surgery can change these facts. The person needs serious psychological therapy. Stop the nonsense. When I read of a six-year old wanting to change his/her sexual identity, I blame the parents. What does a six-year old know?
There are females with just one X chromosome. 1 out of 660 males has two X chromosomes and one Y chromosome. There are also those with Triple X syndrome. There are other chromosomal abnormalities.
This is just an FYI.
Not an endorsement of any gender theory or position on transgenderism or transexuality.
CDC: Surveillance Report, Vol. 25, Diagnoses of HIV Infection in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2013:
“Transmission category: From 2009 through 2013, among adult and adolescent males, the annual number of diagnosed HIV infections attributed to male-to-male sexual contact increased.
The numbers of infections attributed to injection drug use, male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use, or heterosexual contact decreased. Among adult and adolescent females, the numbers of infections attributed to injection drug use or heterosexual contact decreased.
In 2013, among adult and adolescent males and females, the diagnosed infections attributed to male-to-male sexual contact (68%, including male-to-male sexual contact and…
STOP Planned Parenthood at Trinity Washington University
Dear Pro-Lifer,
Please join me in signing this pro-life petition.
Trinity University — a Catholic institution — is referring students to Planned Parenthood on its web site. To stop this scandal, please sign the pro-life petition here:
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“Public Health Ignored as HIV Spreads
https://www.crisismagazine.com/2015/public-health-ignored-as-hiv-spreads
– The LGBTQ activists are now demanding legislation that would ban all forms of sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE). Those defending the therapists targeted by the legislation have pointed to the positive effects of such efforts. While this is certainly true, a more compelling argument is the absolute failure of the programs approved by the activists to stop or even slow the HIV syndemic among men who have sex with men (MSM)…
Many of the boys pushed by pro-gay education into self-identifying as gay are victims of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) by a male.
Men with a history of CSA are more likely to become HIV…