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Related: About this forumJoCo {Johnson County Kansas} Catholic school bans gay couple's kindergartner ...
JoCo Catholic school bans gay couples kindergartner. Hundreds of parents protesthttps://www.kansascity.com/living/religion/article227148974.html
A Prairie Village Roman Catholic grade school this year denied enrollment to a kindergartner who is the child of a same-sex couple. Now almost 1,000 people have signed a petition asking church leaders to reconsider.
The petition over St. Ann Catholic School on Mission Road is addressed to Archbishop Joseph Naumann and school Superintendent Kathy OHara. About half of the people who signed it are members of St. Ann.
Respectfully, we believe that the decision to deny a child of God access to such a wonderful community and education, based on the notion that his or her parents union is not in accordance with the Churchs teaching in Sacramental marriage, lacks the compassion and mercy of Christs message, the petition reads.
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I don't think it was a matter of denying the enrollment simply because the parents are transgressors, but rather to avoid possible trouble from troublemakers. Looks like the avoiding trouble thing is not working out them.
Additional observation: Not all religion, but always religion.
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JoCo {Johnson County Kansas} Catholic school bans gay couple's kindergartner ... (Original Post)
Odoreida
Mar 2019
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Firestorm49
(4,002 posts)1. Ah, praise the Lord Jesus, lover of all mankind. What a crock.
OregonBlue
(7,744 posts)2. Don't see how that school could claim to be teaching
The message of Christ.
Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)3. Do they reject the children of single parents? Or the children of divorcees?
Unwed parenthood is a big no-no according to Catholic teaching as is divorce without an annulment.