Tex. School Denies Child of Gay Moms

texas again..-sigh- will we ever progress

The kid is better off, trust me. ...and... why are we surprised?

Only thing I will say is that if the school does apply for grants from the government, they should be denied for their prejudice. Of course, I also think religious organizations should not be tax exempt.

ahhhh catholic school
i went to one for almost a full semester in 7th grade when i was briefly living in Oregon. instead of it being hell on me, i made it hell on them
i recall the pastor guy or whoever it was telling me i was one of the 3 kids to ever get expelled from the school, and may god have mercy on my tainted soul
i also recall that day being one of the best in my life. oh, the hatred that burned in his eyes!

Damn it--I guess the movie Sister Act was all based on a lie... : P although that's some serious irony that they would allow a black woman who is hiding because she was supposed to testify against her white married boyfriend who was on trial for murder and attempted murder (but irony within irony-not for committing adultery)-- to not only impersonate a nun but also teach music and teach the parishioners to perform christian cover versions of R & B songs that would go on to be popular to use as background music and english instruction for mass calisthenic exercises in Korea or China--but not allow a little girl to go to school and get a quality education or take the religious indoctrination the school would require her to learn back to her mommies and tell them what's "right" and "moral".

last i check St. Vincent's Episcopal School.. is Episcopal and not catholic i mean unless this is a new thing i doubt their the same...

Are they tax exempt because it's a religious school? Most religions are intolerant of gays and lesbians, why should the Catholics be any different. I'm for removing tax exempt status from ALL religions.

Two points I'd like to make

First, they hold a Tax Exempt status, which means they should be obeying anti discrimination laws.

Second, support for Equal Marriage has almost doubled in the past 10 years, if the church had half a brain they should be vary scared for there own existence which will be jeopardized by these public incidents.

Two points I'd like to make

First, they hold a Tax Exempt status, which means they should be obeying anti discrimination laws.

Second, support for Equal Marriage has almost doubled in the past 10 years, if the church had half a brain they should be vary scared for there own existence which will be jeopardized by these public incidents.

My advice to these people? They should make haste and leave Texas and then take their daughter back to Canada. And, when they get there, they should enroll her in a Canadian PUBLIC school. Their daughter will grow up and learn the facts, learn about evolution in a school full of children from diverse backgrounds, while not having to see her parents being discriminated against; something she would have been deprived of in a lowly Texas Catholic "school".

They'll live happily ever after, sans the discrimination, ignorance, fundamentalism, and intolerance.

Anyone that saw or read this line, St. Vincent's Episcopal, should know they are going to a hypocritical, asinine, one track thinking group... These types of schools need to be left alone. They are not going to change unless they are funded publicly...

It's sad that the same institution that preaches forgiveness, compassion and helping..... (yeah right) is the first one to criticize, attack and throw you to the curve, if you don't follow their blind belief...

I don't see an issue here. It's a Catholic school. They do not accept the parents lifestyle. OK, you don't have to accept anything I do, or they do. You don't have to give them your money, either. That's their choice. Why would you make a big issue about it? Texas is as conservative as they come, I'm sure they get a lot more grief from people in their neighborhood, people in local government, people everywhere around them. Everyone up in arms here, you've got to take into consideration there locale. There is a lot of difference in the amount of tolerance across this country. Nothing said here is going to make any difference in the area of the country where they live.

While I'm not sure why anyone would want to "join" a group that doesn't respect them, this religious "private" school should denounce their tax deferred status, as well as refuse to accept public monies of any kind. Right, like that is going to happen. Just another example of how religious institutions are losing ground, status, and influence on people. Hopefully.

Private schools are the first step towards no public education. The school is private, they only let in who they want.

I DON"T SEE THE SCHOOL TURNING AWAY STUDENTS WHOSE PARENTS HAVE BEEN DIVORCED!!! There are over 50 scriptures on the evils of divorce in the new testament alone while there are 1 or 2 on homosexuality. The new testament states that if you divorce your spouse other than reasons for sexual unfaithfulness or death, you are sinning every time you sleep with your new spouse. Typical religious hypocrisy. Only use the Bible when it suits your needs or prejudices.

I feel sorry for the little girl. Growing up in an enviroment like that is probably going to confuse the hell out of her!

I send my Daughter to a Private CHRISTIAN School for a reason. I do NOT believe in forcing my morals on other people but I do not want them forcing theirs on me either. I believe this School is well within it's rights to deny admission to people they believe do not meet their schools standards.

It's a private school, they're allowed to take and reject whoever they want for whatever "reasons" they may or may not have.

That being said, what made a couple of lesbian think a religious school would take their kid? That'd be like me taking my kid to a KKK school and expecting everything to be all bueno. C'mon son!

Discrimination like this can't last forever

Why the hell would they want their child going to a Catholic school anyways?

What did you learn in school today honey?

The Earth is only 5,000 years old, evolution is wrong, and you and my other mommy are going to hell.

wtf

For preaching tolerance, as a group Christians the most intolerant batch of individuals on this rock, trying to force there visions of morality on people. A schools mission should always be education. It is up to parents to provide children with their moral compass. The immorality is when a moral center is not provided by the parents. The sex of the parents is not relevant. Christians should go back to being a message of comfort, and not a seller of "Snake Oil Morality".

All in all, it's within the right of the school to deny admission to this child. Still, it's ironic that denying the child admission is likely to inspire her far better education elsewhere.

The consequences to a bad decision aren't all bad. Every action in the universe is itself a consequence of previous action and sets off an unending chain of consequences difficult to impossible to predict. This means that, despite the tragedy of the Jewish holocaust perpetrated by the German Nazis, much come has come of their actions - unintended yes, but good all the same.

There is a good lesson in this rejection for both the child and her parents. One possible good result is the fact that many among us are disgusted by such bigotry and, to spite those guilty of it, some will perhaps offer the child and her parents assistance in finding a quality school more enlightened and better for the child in the long run. Hell, she might even get a free education altogether. Another is that other parents may now be informed enough to avoid placing their child in such a place of small-minded education.

Bigots do us the kindness of revealing themselves thus making it easier to marginalize them in our own lives.

I freaking love hypocrites. The Catholic Church up until the 21st century went into every nation around the world and the first thing they did was separate the children from their immoral horrible native culture and put them in centralized boarding schools and teach them to become good god fearing Catholics.

And ironically this couple was given a letter that denied their daughter admission because "it might undermine the moral instruction of our clergy and teachers in the minds of our schools students and parents."

But duh! I just realized that every time stories about lesbians having their child denied access to catholic school make the news-- the child being denied is a girl---so THAT explains it.

As lame as the whole thing is, this is a private school. They can accept or reject whomever they want.

It'd be big news if it were a public school, but this bigoted silliness from a private Christian school should be expected by everyone - especially the girl's parents.

What a bitchy letter- they on purpose used the word "mother" instead of "mothers" repeatedly.

Why would they want their child to go to a Catholic school anyway?
A low teacher to student ratio is still a high bigot to student ratio.

" Our Prayers are with Olivia & her Mother " ?

Like - "our hearts go out to you & I will get down on my knees, and beg my Holy Daddy in the sky to forgive you & look after your well being"

But - " I hate your ilk so much, I can't find the decency to teach your child how to read "

The school is a Catholic school in the US. It is private and therefore has the right to ban any child according to its religious jurisdiction as a private school, as long as the school does not take public funds. But let me get back to that, and first talk about the behavior of the church in theological terms.
I cannot understand the logic behind the Catholic belief that homosexuality is a sin. I say this in the face of the fact that the Catholic Church defines postoperative transsexuals as either men or women. According to the church, if the post op woman leads a life according to the rules of the Catholic Church, she can even get married to a man inside the church under Catholicism.
The Catholic Church recognizes gender dysphoria as a treatable disease (some argument there in itself), and therefore acts with reason and empathy for what they see as the illness of gender dysphoric.
Historically I believe that the phenomena of gender dysphoria, first presented in the recent past, happened at a time where more reasonable minds accepted gender dysphoria as at the very least a disease, to which Christian kindness must apply.
Homosexuality was presented to the Catholic Church in less enlightened times, and so was equated with sin.
However, how can the Catholic Church happily define gender dysphoria as a disease and show kindness, and not at the very least recognize homosexuality as a disease and place homosexuals under the same protections of the church as other people who are ill?
It makes no sense, and I believe Jesus (mythical or real) would only be concerned with the soul and not the behavior of the so-called ill person who submits to the so-called ravages of homosexuality.
The Church welcomes alcoholics, in or out of recovery, so why not homosexuals?
I think it is going to take either a Third Ecumenical Council or a decree by the Pope before empathy will prevail in the Catholic Church. Unfortunately I think that will be a long time coming. How sad.
However, in the secular world, there is as legal argument that I would like to see the ACLU or other originations take up in court. The Catholic Church in question may not be taking direct financial contributions from the government, but can it not be argued that infrastructure alone constitutes public funding? I mean we built the road to the church, the water mains, and the power lines. We funded the churches ability to be built, and under law that means it has to abide by secular laws. The same would apply toward any other church that takes and uses public infrastructure and therefore public contributions.
If ANY Church rejects a court ruling against them, then they can be closed down as a publicly funded entity that will not obey the law.
Gets you thinking don’t it??? :)

Homophobic bastards!

The Catholic school has every right to deny admission. As a private school with ZERO State or Federal dollars the board can choose to follow the Church's stance against Gay unions, and the Gay agenda. I won't call it marriage because it is not. Children need a Father and a Mother. You 17%ers are really oblivious to the rest of the countrys' Moral Values. You all should move to California the welfare and Gay state, become your own Sodom.

You know, I'm from Texas, and I love it and defend it often. I promise you, it's not all bad. But GOD! They're just killing me when they do stuff like this!

Just killing me. So disappointing.

This sucks, but I'm unsure of the legality in this case as it is a private institution.

Although my gut feeling tells me it is most definitely wrong, and illegal; I'm just not sure right now.

and here is how the fucked up religious right will use this.they will take any negative result placed on the texas school from this as an example of the damage gay marraige does.
not the prejudice of the school

wwjd guys. I mean come on, if jesus could let prostitutes wash his feet then some stuffy ass "christian" school can let a kid raised by lesbians learn long division. i swear non-christians understand christian values better christians do. do they also turn down kids with divorced parents? kids conceived out of wedlock? kids with parents who commit actual crimes? i could rant all day.

well, they're welcome out here in California.

Ya know folks I hate to say i live in Texas some times Just because of bullshit like this. who gives a rats ass who is raiseing the kids so long as they are being taken care of. I guess its ok for Catholic Preist to get touchy feely with little boys But if your Gay then it wrong to have kids. Thats so wrong.

Keyword; private.....

It is pretty bad though, and I try to accept that some Christians are indeed good people, but these assholes aren't helping.

I figure her "mothers" are already fucked up enough to deny her a FATHER, you'd think the school would have some compassion...

Sorry "evolution" dictated we should have one of each, a male and female parent, that's not to pick on foster parents who are willing enough to sacrifice a little of their time for someone that otherwise would go without, sexual orientation does become irrelevant when a child has a need and the good "straight" folks won't pick up the slack, but....

Children need fathers..... prime example right here.

It's a private school, they can deny whoever they want. If it was a PUBLIC school this would be a crazy big story, as is it's just a private school freely displaying their intolerant views.

It is their personal values to deny education to a child . What would jesus say ?

Poor kid, but i do have to say I can see where the school is coming from, they are a catholic school, and they would be teaching the child things that disagree with her mothers life style. If I were the girls parents i would not have even put my kid there.

sadly this is the kind of thing that I would expect from a private school in Texas.