The Cincinnati Enquirer |
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Wednesday, April 15, 1998 |
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The article misses the mark in regard to the controversy over St. Xavier High School’s "Homosexual rights" curriculum.
Parents, alumni, and other Catholics are concerned about what is being taught to St. X students in their religion courses; many of them are frustrated at how the administration has been handling complaints about the situation. The prayer vigil protesting the lecture to juniors by a representative of a pro-homosexual organization (P-FLAG) is only one symptom of a much greater problem: Authentic Catholic teaching is being undermined by secular agendas in our Catholic schools under the approving eye of the local archbishop. In 1996, when a few St. X parents raised objections to the P-FLAG lecture, Principal Dave Mueller justified her presence by saying that she is an effective speaker on teaching about "discrimination." Even so, some parents objected to her promotion of homosexuality as a legitimate alternative lifestyle. They were especially disturbed by her denigration of the Catholic Church’s position on homosexuality and promotion of her own church, which, as she stated, "readily accepts gays." A brief examination of the junior-year religion curriculum - I have read it in its entirety - reveals a steady diet of homosexual advocacy compounded with presentations on radical feminism, among other controversial topics which parents would more readily expect to be the discussion on Jerry Springer. |
It seems that if an educator is able to present a topic wrapped in the shroud of "a presentation on discrimination," he will be able to advocate any type of behavior. Why then, for instance, couldn’t St. X bring in a speaker to discuss "unjust discrimination" against pedophiles.
Although societal acceptance of pedophilia may strike most people today as unlikely, we might consider that few would have predicted the startling advances of "gay rights" since the 1950s, when homosexuality was still regarded as serious immorality - even by the media. The dramatic shift of values that normalizes homosexuality must inevitably come to normalize all forms of sexuality. That includes pedophilia and a host of other sexual perversions, all of which are essentially crimes against humanity.  Catholic educators now want parents to accept this without question, but perhaps it’s time we ask if the "tolerant" world devoid of moral authority we are creating might not be unworkable and ultimately nightmarish. Michael S. Rose, Editor, St. Catherine Review, Downtown
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