Wait. The Catholic Church still operates in San Francisco?
Following word of the proposed teacher morality clauses, Bay Area lawmakers sent a letter to Cordileone urging him to withdraw the plan they called “divisive,” saying the clauses “conflict with settled areas of law and foment a discriminatory environment,” which sends “an alarming message of intolerance to youth.”
h/t Michael
It seems that many of our lawmakers want to turn society into a mirror image of what passes for morality in an inner city wh*re house.
That ought to get a buzz or two.
San Francisco the whole darn place needs to fall into the ocean and that includes the bridges as well and oakland as well they have become Sodum and Gammora on the west coast
This is the first joke I heard about gays, back when I started high school. How do you separate the men from the boys in San Francisco? With a crowbar.
Not a Catholic. Considering that the sole purpose for having Catholic schools is to teach Catholic morality, which for the most part is Biblical, why do Catholics even consider being told how they should run their schools? Alberta has Catholic schools, constitutionally, because that was the price to keep the west in the fold. The French Catholic Metis didn’t think being part of Canada ruled by Ontario Orangemen was all that wonderful.
Catholic schools should react vociferously any time provincial education authorities try to advance the normalization of assorted perversions.
“Catholic schools should react vociferously any time provincial education authorities try to advance the normalization of assorted perversions.”
What, and lose their funding? I doubt it. Catholic schools are nothing more than public schools with a cross on the front.
“Alberta has Catholic schools, constitutionally, because that was the price to keep the west in the fold. The French Catholic Metis didn’t think being part of Canada ruled by Ontario Orangemen was all that wonderful.”
It predates the existence of Alberta and had little to do with the west at all; in terms of school populations, there was no Canadian “west” of any consequence in 1867. Indeed, the practice of separate denominational schools in the Canadian colonies predates Confederation (it can be traced as far back as the Treaty of Paris in 1763).
To understand the basis of Catholic separate schools, you have to remember that public schools were once Protestant schools.
Agree with you “scar”, but Mike G81 has a point too – either Catholic schools start acting as such, or they will become insignificant. Many of the schools are run, not by the Church, but by laic staff who are very soft on morals, especially to do with sexuality, abortion, homosexuality and etc..
Spurwing/Msterymeat – Stranger things have been known to happen. In a recent issue of the Spectator (British)in a column by Rachel Haliburton, in a piece titled “Gay Right” we read that in 2012, 26% of those who identified as homosexual and bisexual voters (what a question to ask! I could never be a pollster)plan to vote for Marine Le Pen of the Front National, compared to only 16% of heterosexuals. Talk about strange bedfellows!
Imagine a clergyman having the audacity to demand that Catholic teachers live Catholic lives.
In San Francisco and Ontario, that is a no-no.
I met Archbishop Cordileone when he was an Auxiliary Bishop in San Diego. He is an authentic Catholic and has the courage of his convictions. Liberal Catholics have been trying to take him down for a number of years.
Publicly funded Catholic schools are still reasonably Catholic in Saskatchewan, most of Alberta, and in some parts of Ontario (but not Toronto), but the pressure on them to secularize increases every day.
The most successful Catholic schools in Canada are the small, independent Catholic schools — independent both of the secular authorities and, being run by lay people, have learned to get along without a nickel from the local bishop.
They need another 1906 type earthquake and fire even more powerful them the previpus one