Nun's message to students on gays prompts parents' ire

[theHandpuppet]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/03/catholic-nun-homosexuality-speech/7250825/
Amy Cowman, WCNC-TV, Charlotte, N.C. 4:15 p.m. EDT April 3, 2014

Nun's message to students on gays prompts parents' ire

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A theology assistant professor at a Catholic college has some parents of a high school here up in arms after a speech on homosexuality.

Administrators at Charlotte Catholic High School met Wednesday with about 900 parents who learned about the March 21 speech from their children, upset at Sister Jane Dominic Laurel's assertion that homosexuality occurs mainly as a result of parents' shortcomings and pornography. Students said the assistant professor of theology at Aquinas College in Nashville, Tenn., told them that single and divorced parents caused kids to become gay; that homosexuals cannot live normal, productive lives; and that gays can't be good parents.

About half of the one-hour talk centered on homosexuality, according to a statement from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte's official newspaper.

Some parents at the 1,400-student school say they wanted to know about the topic of the assembly ahead of time and would not have allowed their kids to stay.... MORE

[mercuryblues]

1. really

just what did the parents expect when they sent their kids to a Catholic school? SMH.

[HubertHeaver]

3. They expect a well-rounded education.

They don't expect full-on propaganda from the Nuns.

[mercuryblues]

5. any religious

school will toe the hierarchy line when it comes to sex ed. So the parents should not have been surprised when they did. They got what they paid for. Religion mixed in with an education. I would be more shocked if they had a medically accurate sex ed program.

[HubertHeaver]

6. That school may indeed have a a medically accurate sex ed program.

It may be buried in Biology class, but in that science class it will be medically/scientifically accurate. The propaganda comes from other sources as in this case, from an outside speaker in an assembly.

[Plantaganet]

9. Exactly.

This is why it's impossible to take "progressive" Catholics seriously.

[dlwickham]

7. thank you

it's still run by the Catholic Church and the church's rules are still pushed no matter the religion of the student

[HubertHeaver]

2. Sounds like Sister Jane is in denial about herself. N/T

[joeybee12]

4. So, an unmarried woman, who dresses all in black, and who is the "bride"

of some guy who was tortured 2000 years ago somehow is an authority on human behavior? What did I miss?

[Rhythm]

8. And people wonder ~why~ i happily moved away from Charlotte NC?!

They've been in the news TWICE this week for LGBT-related dumb-shittery...

This story, and the one about the trans woman who was ushered off-campus at Central Piedmont Community College (a HUGE jr. college right downtown) for using what the campus-security-idjit thought was the ~wrong~ restroom...