US Catholic school fights back against anti-gay lecture

[Fearless]

A group of senior students at Minnesota’s Catholic DeLaSalle forced a mandatory lecture to end abruptly due to their virulently anti-gay rhetoric, with homosexuality compared to bestiality.

There had been some suspicion that Twin Cities Archbishop John Nienstedt was sending out a team of ‘a priest and a married (heterosexual) couple’ to all the Catholic schools in the area, specifically targetting seniors, in order to drum up support for the forthcoming vote to restrict marriage to heterosexuals through a constitutional amendment...

Mr Tevlin spoke to one student, Matt Bliss, who said: ”The first three-quarters of the presentation were really good. They talked about what is marriage and how marriage helps us as a society. Then it started going downhill when they started talking about single parents and adopted kids. They didn’t directly say it, but they implied that kids who are adopted or live with single parents are less than kids with two parents of the opposite sex. They implied that a ‘normal’ family is the best family.”

“When they finally got to gay marriage, [students] were really upset,” Mr Bliss added. “You could look around the room and feel the anger. My friend who is a lesbian started crying, and people were crying in the bathroom.” Subsequently, Matt, along with other students, began to argue with the said representatives.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/04/04/us-catholic-school-fights-back-against-anti-gay-lecture/

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Good for those kids!! Imagine school bullying by administrative program?! So utterly disgusting.

[hedgehog]

1. Thanks!

[mitchtv]

2. OMG the students learned to think for themselves

can't have that going on

[Plantaganet]

3. The headline is misleading.

According to the article, the lecture was mandatory, so it's hardly an instance of a Catholic school fighting back. Rather, it's a case of a Catholic school doing what they've always done - promoting homophobia - and a handful of brave students calling them out on it.

Actually, it's a sort of potted history of the Catholic church.

A: "You're going to believe this."

B: "Erm, I'd rather not."

A: "Tough."

B: "I'm outta here."

[Fearless]

4. US Catholic School STUDENTS are the ones fighting back.

[dickthegrouch]

5. And we have to find out about it from the British press!

Shocked? Not.

MSM has not said a word about it AFAICS. All the references in my first two pages of Google results were for blogs and orgs such as Huffpo.

Silence is Assent - No wonder print media is declining in popularity.

[Fearless]

6. +100!

[MNBrewer]

7. I just have one thing to say

And Tim Minchin said it best

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[dickthegrouch]

8. "Homophobes in Robes"

and "Be Political, Not Polite"
by Romanovsky and Phillips are two of my favorite songs

http://romanovskyandphillips.com/discography.htm

[Initech]

9. "Homophobes in Robes" would make a great name for a band.