What would you do? Catholic school paper.

[icarus]

Gacked from 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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[chinesefirebal.livejournal.com]

Catholic school policy can be quite easy to change - depends on the catholics who are in charge.
This is another true story - told to my religion class by the teacher who is huge on social justice.
She was out west (I live on the east cost of australia in a fairly big city (by australian standards) just south of sydney) in Brewarrana (sp?, pop. couple of 100). Some farm owner actually went to the police station and asked if he could still use his culling licence as it didn't have an expirey date. Culling licence were issued god know's how long ago (maybe around 1850 i'm guessing) and gave the owner of it to kill off the local indigenous population. this man was catholic, and he still asked this. the police man said it would still be murder (thankfully).
There are 1.1 billion catholics in the world. the ones i mentioned and icaurus mentioned are thankfully in the vast minority, but centred in a few areas (rural australia, deep south of usa) and make hell for the few people that live there.

In contrast my (catholic) school actually employs a gay teacher. not sure if he is out, but you do see him about with his boyfriend/partner - and once in leather pants