Leftism is the most dynamic religion of the 20th and 21st centuries. It will have no other religion before it.
Here’s the back story. During contract renegotiations with nearly 500 staff members last month, the archdiocese [San Francisco, headed by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone … ed.] issued an updated faculty guide for its Catholic high schools. The addendum introduced three new clauses—which staff members are required to “affirm and believe”—denouncing masturbation, pornography, same-sex marriage, contraception and other issues that, in line with Catholic teaching, are described as “gravely evil.”
These beliefs shouldn’t surprise anyone familiar with the Catholic Church—the 2,000-year-old institution has clearly defined its moral teachings throughout the years. Yet lawmakers objected, contending in a Feb. 17 letter to the archdiocese that the new guide is “divisive.” They asserted that by spelling out the teachings of the Catholic Church and requiring high-school staff to not publicly undermine those teachings, teachers could be dismissed for private decisions not in accord with Catholic teaching.
The archbishop responded, calling the idea that the clauses could apply to an employee’s private life a “falsehood” in a Feb. 19 letter. Then he put a question to the lawmakers: “Would you hire a campaign manager who advocates policies contrary to those that you stand for, and who shows disrespect toward you and the Democratic Party in general?” Of course they wouldn’t, and Archbishop Cordileone summed up the problem: “I respect your right to employ or not employ whomever you wish to advance your mission. I simply ask the same respect from you.”
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Yet similar coercion is taking place throughout the country. Last year, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges opened an investigation into Gordon College—a Christian school. The association gave the college a year to review its conduct standards, which ask all members of the Gordon community to live by the Christian virtue of chastity—with the implication that Gordon could be at risk of losing accreditation. Gordon is currently undergoing that internal review and says it plans to submit a report later this year.
Elsewhere, the Department of Health and Human Services’ contraception mandate has created a comparable threat for Notre Dame and Wheaton College—both of which are plaintiffs in ongoing lawsuits. That mandate forces religious schools to provide and pay for coverage of abortion-inducing drugs, contraception and sterilization regardless of a school’s religious objection. The law would compel these colleges either to stop offering health insurance altogether—and incur steep fines—or to violate their deeply held beliefs.
In January, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the euphemistically titled “Human Rights Amendment Act.” The bill would compel Washington’s private religious schools to violate their beliefs about human sexuality by recognizing LGBT student groups or hosting a “gay pride” day on campus. The bill is currently under congressional review.
Provided private schools meet basic standards of safety and education, the government shouldn’t be in the business of coercing them to conform to someone else’s moral beliefs.
Leftists not only have no respect for dissenting views, they will fight to destroy those who hold them.
As long as Catholic Schools are traditionally Catholic, the Left will bring the power of The State to oppose them.
they’re trying to distract from how america’s nasty public school teachersluts keep sleeping with their students
The reasons for the Left’s desire to destroy parochial schools are legion. The education is higher quality at lower cost per student; the students who attend remove per capita state dollars from their local districts, and, as you mention, they espouse values and mores the Left cannot abide.
I would note, in my area, the parochial schools have very generous aid programs for underprivileged students and for many, many years have served as an escape for black students from failing urban schools. That is as bad for the Left as anything else because it removes young people from the clutches of those who would keep them within the “Victim Class.”
This country is so over.
OT: swiped from Ace’s sidebar and Insty. Some delightful mockery of feminists and SJWs and the Left in general.
John
there is some real gold in that timeline … oh.my. [snort guffaw]
Poor kids all around are helped by parochial schools. Every single day.
Oftentimes they’re given a substantially better education paid entirely from the charity of good people.
What jerks.
I know it gets redundant to hear this but it’s a moral requirement to express gratitude.
They did it for me. This isn’t hypothetical. I received a far superior education from real charity than I could have ever gotten otherwise from those fake sort of public “who gives a shit?” administrators.
I was required to work off a portion of my Catholic high school tuition by sitting at the phone desk for three nights and eating free dinners while the phones failed to ring.
One night it was canard a l’orange. Clearly they thought waterboarding was too good for me.
Remember that, McG?
Shoveling. Sorting books. Working in the kitchen. All as poor exploited children.
What it prepared us for was the jobs we’d have to work in college. What it prepared us for was life in general.
Get up by 7:00 AM. Work a full day. Go to sleep without any of the unshakable concerns of being a parasite.
There has to be something to that.
Give a kid total or heavily discounted tuition and then require them to do a ton of labor to compensate for it psychologically.
It’s sorta the opposite of how welfare creates terrorists.
But, yeah, gay something or another. That’s the important thing, I guess.
You two don’t realize how exploited you were as children. Your judgement is clearly faulty.
Greetings:
For a short while now, and at the risk of abusing Mr. Tolkien’s masterwork, I’ve been thinking of Islmania as the “one religion to rule them all” so perhaps I should be looking forward to today’s alliance’s future unraveling.
A fight to keep the Islamic Revolution Islamic: The Supreme Censor (Dec. 22, 2014)
I know this may come as a shock, especially to San Franciso (Sodom by the Bay) lawmakers,
but Jesus was a divider, not a uniter.
Also, you take the Catholic Church’s money, honesty demands you sing their song and dance their jig. (Feel free to skip down to the C.S. Lewis quote).
second link to Luke 12: 52-53 (RSV)