wealthy couple want Catholic school donation back.. likens social and racial justice to a "stench"

[Demovictory9]

Anthony and Barbara Scarpo pledged to donate $1.35 million to the Academy of the Holy Names in Tampa in 2017

They had already paid $240,000 towards the pledge by 2018 and have raised more than $9 million for the school

For their efforts, the school named the auditorium The Scarpo Family Theater

The Scarpos are now demanding their pledge be rescinded and the tuition money they had already spent on their younger daughter be donated to charity

In a lawsuit filed in county court last week, they claim the school has distanced itself from a traditional Catholic education and embraced 'woke' policies

The couple lamented the school's handling of racial and LGBTQ issues



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In a letter Anthony wrote to the school at his older daughter's graduation, he said: 'The continued indoctrination of your twisted version of social and racial justice, equity, inclusion, sexuality and today's politically-correct narrative has permeated like a stench through the halls of the Academy and been allowed to seep into the minds of our children, causing stress, anger, guilt and confusion.'

'You were always eager to solicit our hard-earned money and take what you could,' he wrote, 'but held firm as you dragged dozens if not hundreds of conservative families and teachers through your re-imagined, highly progressive world, even as parents and students asked you, pleaded with you to stop, slow down.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9770651/Wealthy-Florida-couple-demands-Catholic-school-returns-240k-donation.html

[rownesheck]

1. Ahh,

faces begging to be punched.

Fuck them and the bigoted fascist horse they rode in on.

[nuxvomica]

2. It still astonishes me that "woke" and "progressive" are now bad words

I wrote a sci-fi story years ago, before "woke" was a trigger word, about a utopia where everyone gets along in peace and harmony, where every need is met, and every point of view accepted. In this world, the people who couldn't abide such a an egalitarian society were offered the chance to float in tanks with their brains hooked up to a simulation of an authoritarian world of white privilege and their memories of the real world were erased. They were called "sleepers" and the people still living in the physical world were called "the woke". Do we have the technology now to offer that option to people like the Scarpos? I'd make a donation.

[vercetti2021]

3. Story I would totally read

I'm writing a story about a supernatural world where humans and the supernatural coexist. Everyone is very accepting of one another regardless of race, sex life, and being. Except for season two which is based on the Proud Boys when another city wages war against the supernatural city to exterminate the supernatural and any human ally.

[nuxvomica]

5. I was inspired by Elmer Rice's "The Adding Machine"

In which when people died they went to heaven, where everyone got along, but those that couldn't be happy accepting everyone were sent back to earth, the point being that happiness/paradise/heaven is not a reward so much as an acceptance of other people with which you have no real need to quarrel to begin with. It seems to me that people like the Scarpos have created their own hell to live in.

[vercetti2021]

6. Sad fate to live in

But they choose to live in their own hatred of others. As a trans woman. I pity their dark hearts for steering them down a path like this.

[nuxvomica]

8. Such pointless self-cruelty with these people!

We rail against the cruelty, and sometimes violence, they bring on others so the cruelty they do to themselves is just an afterthought, as it should be, but it's still there, and still confounding.

[vercetti2021]

10. Well that's how it always will be

It doesn't phase me from doing what I'm meant to do to become what I truly am

[Bettie]

13. Take a look at DU

both are bad words to a segment right here.

There is a virulent hatred of progressives particularly.

The second someone suggests we could have health care or parental leave or really anything that benefits large groups of non-wealthy people, they swarm and declare that it can NEVER happen under any circumstances, because....well, because they don't like it or want it.

Oh, that story sounds interesting!

[hlthe2b]

4. I'd bet my lunch that their daughter has made her own views clear to them and

since graduating has become even more independent in her thinking... Something most teens and adolescents do anyway. Sorry, you morons. You can't keep the world from your child.

[MaryMagdaline]

7. One of the few liberal Catholic schools

The right will have to go all out to bring them down.

[SunSeeker]

9. Gee, a Catholic school that actually follows the teachings of Jesus instead of Mamon?

I can see why these two bigoted materialists want their "hard-earned money" back.

[JT45242]

11. "hard work" my ass -- he made hi smoney in the monopolistic world of diamonds

From the amazon page for his book

"he has risen to the top of his industry working with De Beers and the major Diamond cutters from around the world."

He came from money ... he works in one of the most corrupt and manipulated price industries in the world.

Oh yeah ... let us remember all the bad things Jesus said about the love of money, the use of money.


Jesus would have told him to give back all the money he swindled (see Zaccheus) or "sell all you have and follow me (see the rich man who asked) or "it is easier for a camel to get through the narrowest door on the city of Jerusalem than it is for a rich man to get into heaven"..."You cannot serve God and money. "

Let's find all the stories in the canon or apocrypha that Jesus said anything about homosexuality (crickets)

These grifters can just shut up until they actually read the book and realize that starting with his first sermon from the book of Isaiah that Jesus was a Woke Social Justice Warrior calling for society to take care of the poor, sick, widowed, etc. as a moral imperative from God.

[obamanut2012]

12. Great post!

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

14. Somebody hasn't been paying attention in church!

I guess the priest sounds just like the teacher in Charlie Brown to this guy. Wah, wah wah, wha wha, Jesus. I suppose he thinks if you donate enough money you get to be God's ventriloquist.

[riversedge]

15. This reminds me how fast the anti wake stuff is spreading into society.

[Demovictory9]

17. Yeah 😥

[Bristlecone]

16. Well, I can only hope the real reason is that they are leveraged to the hilt

And are now dead broke - so they can’t pay the promise dough.

[SharonClark]

18. Academy of the Holy Names

Our Mission
The Academy of the Holy Names empowers students to be authentic individuals who engage in independent thought, are inspired by creativity, and lead culturally aware, spiritually rich lives.

Our Vision
The Academy's mission reflects the core values of the Sisters of the Holy Names and calls students to develop their full potential. Our motto, clearly understood and acted upon, encourages students:
To Be Faith-Filled
To Be Inquisitive
To Be Innovative
To Be Independent
To Be Just

[SharonClark]

19. There's more. . .

Source:
https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2021/07/06/academy-of-the-holy-names-is-too-woke-not-catholic-enough-lawsuit-says/

. . .
The school has denied the claims. In a letter to Adam Levine, the Scarpos’ lawyer, Tampa lawyer Gregory Hearing called the lawsuit a publicity stunt. If the Scarpos choose to move forward, he said, the academy would consider filing a counterclaim asking them to pay the remainder of their pledge, which he said Florida law may require them to do.

“We can discern no motivation behind the lawsuit other than attention-seeking by your clients, and a desire by you to build a brand,” Hearing wrote.

“For a court to delve into whether the substance of matters taught by a Catholic school are consistent with a Catholic education would entangle the court in excessively religious matters, and thereby violate the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution,” the letter said. “That we should need to educate you on this is absurd.”
. . .

This will be an interesting fight.