In the Western world (Europe and North America) governments are pressuring schools, including religious schools, to accept and teach the homosexual agenda.  Catholics schools must not co-operate.

            Unfortunately, Catholics seem to have been taken by surprise. For years trustees and principals have closed their eyes in accepting into their schools teachers, and children from parents who practise the homosexual lifestyle.  At first they were few in number,

 and often discreet enough not to advertise their lifestyle. But those days are gone.

            For the time being the homosexual agenda for “equal rights” has triumphed in countries like Canada and Britain, and to a lesser extent, in the United States. Legislatures have passed laws recognizing these “rights”.  They call for compliance.  But Catholics cannot and may not comply and neither should other citizens.  Neither public nor Catholic schools should accept irrational, deviant, and harmful behaviour.

            The case why Catholics schools may not comply was recently made by Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver, Colorado, when one diocesan school ruled that children controlled by two lesbians could finish their school year, but could not re-enrol for next year’s classes.

            “While many customs have changed over time,” the Archbishop wrote in support of the school,

“the mission of Catholic schools has not. The main purpose of Catholic schools is religious; in other words, to form students in Catholic faith, Catholic morality and Catholic social values.”

            He continued: “We take great pride in the academic excellence of our schools as well.  The reason is simple.  A strong, well-rounded academic education helps to create mature citizen who contribute to the wider community.  It is also true that some of our schools exist as a service outreach in largely non-Catholic communities.  Many of our schools also accept students of other faiths and no faith, and from single parent and divorced parent families. These students are always welcome so long as their parents support the Catholic mission of the school and do not offer a serious counter-witness to that mission in their actions”….

            “That’s the background.  Now to the human side of a painful situation.  The Church never looks for reasons to turn anyone away from a Catholic education.  But the Church can not change her moral beliefs without undermining her mission and failing to serve the many families who believe in that mission.  If Catholics take their faith seriously, they naturally follow the teaching of the Church in matters of faith and morals otherwise they take themselves outside the believing community….

            “The Church does not claim that people with a homosexual orientation are bad, or that their children are less loved by God….But what the Church does teach is that sexual intimacy by anyone outside marriage is wrong; that marriage is a sacramental covenant; and that marriage can only occur between a man and a woman.  These beliefs are central to a Catholic understanding of human nature, family and happiness, and the organization of society.  The Church cannot change these teaching because….they are the teaching of Jesus Christ….

            “Our schools are meant to be “partners in faith” with parents. If parents don’t respect the beliefs of the Church, or live in a manner that openly rejects those beliefs then partnering with those parents becomes very difficult, if not impossible….

            “Most parents who send their children to Catholic schools want an environment where the Catholic faith is fully taught and practised.  That simply can’t be done if teachers need to worry about wounding the feelings of their students or about alienating students from their parents.  That isn’t fair to anyone ¯ including the wider school community.  Persons who have an understanding of marriage and family life sharply different from Catholic belief are often people of sincerity and good will.  They have other, excellent options for education and should see in them the better course for their children.” (For Archbishop’s text, see Denver Catholic Register, March 10/2010, .see also LifeSiteNews.com, March 08 & 10, 2010)