What would you do? Catholic school paper.
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True Story: A religion teacher assigned her class an essay on what makes a good Christian. One student wrote about praying nightly, say no to abortion, banning gay marriage, and donating money. The other student wrote about talking to God and allowing people to enjoy their lives, and supporting gay marriage. The day the teacher was to hand the papers back, she called up the second student and told him she would pray for him when he went to hell. The student asked why would he be going to hell, and why he got an F on his paper. The teacher told him that Catholicism is against gay marriage. The student looked at her for a minute, then said aloud, "I'm gay." The teacher kicked him out of class as if he had said fuck or worshiped Satan. A girl in the back of class who had a boyfriend and was obviously straight got up and left too.
If you would leave the classroom, repost this. It doesn't matter if you're straight, bi, or gay. It doesn't matter if you're Catholic or not. Everyone is a human being and deserves happiness.
I'm not sure I would have left though. Since I'm never going to change a Catholic school's policy I think I would have stayed and given the teacher a really bad time for the rest of the quarter. I've noticed that when a "good" student acts up a little, the bad students get really out of control.
misting.True Story: A religion teacher assigned her class an essay on what makes a good Christian. One student wrote about praying nightly, say no to abortion, banning gay marriage, and donating money. The other student wrote about talking to God and allowing people to enjoy their lives, and supporting gay marriage. The day the teacher was to hand the papers back, she called up the second student and told him she would pray for him when he went to hell. The student asked why would he be going to hell, and why he got an F on his paper. The teacher told him that Catholicism is against gay marriage. The student looked at her for a minute, then said aloud, "I'm gay." The teacher kicked him out of class as if he had said fuck or worshiped Satan. A girl in the back of class who had a boyfriend and was obviously straight got up and left too.
If you would leave the classroom, repost this. It doesn't matter if you're straight, bi, or gay. It doesn't matter if you're Catholic or not. Everyone is a human being and deserves happiness.
I'm not sure I would have left though. Since I'm never going to change a Catholic school's policy I think I would have stayed and given the teacher a really bad time for the rest of the quarter. I've noticed that when a "good" student acts up a little, the bad students get really out of control.
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Date: 2005-08-06 11:28 pm (UTC)When I was in high school, my cousin got expelled for wearing a t-shirt that said, "Let's get this straight: I'm not". When he asked why, the principal told him he was distracting to the other students and was not allowed to support homosexuality in a public school. When my cousin said, "I'm gay," the principal looked at him in disgust and left the room. When my friends and I heard what happened, we walked out of school and walked into the school board meeting a week later, all wearing the same shirt, with a petition to allow my cousin back to school signed by over half of the student body.
He was reinstated the following Monday. :-)