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Catholic Schools Keep Kids Away From Lesbian Astronaut
Teaching kids that homophobia is A OK
Respected religious institutions drive homophobia in the United States. They teach it in both churches and schools. Three Catholic schools in the Spokane area just handed kids a vivid object lesson in how to stigmatize LGBTQ people. While diocese leaders are being publicly coy, teachers, parents, and students all know that a trip to see NASA astronaut Anne McClain was cancelled because she’s married to a woman.
Roman Catholic teachings gravely insult LGBTQ people
When you’re an LGBTQ kid at a Catholic school, you get injected with a lot of vicious LGBTQ toxins. Schools instruct students from the official Catechism that members of gender and sexual minorities are ‘gravely depraved’, ‘intrinsically disordered’, and ‘morally evil’. Not only is this kind of teaching deeply toxic to queer kids, it encourages other students to look down on and stigmatize their minority peers.
Recent news coverage of McClain’s marriage is “not in accord with Catholic Church teaching on the nature of marriage” and would not prove appropriate for elementary-aged children.
