Irish Catholic Students March in Gay Pride Parade
The principal of St. Paul's High School in County Armagh - one of Ireland's largest Catholic secondary schools - has defended his decision to have a group of students represent the school at a gay pride …More
The principal of St. Paul's High School in County Armagh - one of Ireland's largest Catholic secondary schools - has defended his decision to have a group of students represent the school at a gay pride parade in Newry last weekend.
The students were accompanied by their principal Jarlath Burns who is known to be a passionate defender of Catholic education.
The school had sent a message on Facebook inviting Year 13 and 14 students to represent their school at the march saying: 'We are proud to be a school that embraces diversity and promotes inclusivity, further demonstrating commitment to our Catholic ethos... The rainbow flag will be flown at the school to mark our support for equality for all.'
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The students were accompanied by their principal Jarlath Burns who is known to be a passionate defender of Catholic education.
The school had sent a message on Facebook inviting Year 13 and 14 students to represent their school at the march saying: 'We are proud to be a school that embraces diversity and promotes inclusivity, further demonstrating commitment to our Catholic ethos... The rainbow flag will be flown at the school to mark our support for equality for all.'
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Prof. Leonard Wessell
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It seems that three equal principles determine the "open mindedness" of St. Paul's High School, namely: diversity, inclusivity and equality. But this is not so as the principles lead St. Paul's HS into "selective" open-mindedness and that is phoney and suggests a deeper value hidden away.
"Diversity" entails apparent behaviorial patterns that exclude each other, particularly in terms of traditional …More
It seems that three equal principles determine the "open mindedness" of St. Paul's High School, namely: diversity, inclusivity and equality. But this is not so as the principles lead St. Paul's HS into "selective" open-mindedness and that is phoney and suggests a deeper value hidden away.
"Diversity" entails apparent behaviorial patterns that exclude each other, particularly in terms of traditional Catholic teaching. "Diversity" existes in the traditional Church under such norms as Franciscans, Dominicans, Jesuits, lay people. The "inclusivity" of these differrent expressions of the ONE common Catholicism does not demand "exclusion" of any fundamental doctrinal or moral teaching. The "equality" of each form demands the exclusion of that which offends the fundamentally communal faith and morals. In this framework a female, active lesbian, multi-married and divorced, pro-abortion and pro-poyligamous Anglican Bishop is excluded from the inclusivity that defines (fines = limits) the boundaries of the diversity that is open to the mind of a responsiblely acting head of a Catholic school. I think that most readers would agree to the exclusion of a lesbian Anglican Bishop from Catholic inclusivity as an act of perfectly equal treatment, stemming from the love of truth, i.e., the lesbian Bishop has earned the equality established by truth--and that means the exclusion falsity due to loyalty to truth. TRUTH is above and determinat of the three principles.
St. Paul's administration has sought to exclude exclusivity from the principles of diversity, inclusivity and equality with the result that St. Paul's either excludes the student sharing the communality of orthodox Faith (and this contradictions the "open-mindedness" claimed) OR forces a student faithful to the truth of Catholic morality to celebrate the immorality (< truth judgment) of behavior deemed sinful. And that is more than an offense against the dignity of truth, but a sinful affront to a student because it leaves him/hert in a moral contradiction (and that is the mental sickness of multiple or "diverse" personalities). The orthodox student can not receive the equality owed to a believer of truth, rather has his highest principle, truth, EXCLUDED from the diversity, inclusivity and equality of his scholarly life at a Catholic school.
I can only save St. Paul's from the charge of hypocritical "selectivity" if I assume that a non-orthodox-truth has substituted in the opened (sic) minds of those responsible such that they have substituted a differebt turth for the "TRUTH" that Catholicism offers. In effect I may be charging those responsible either with hipocracy or heresy. That is diversity I would not like to be accused of.
"Diversity" entails apparent behaviorial patterns that exclude each other, particularly in terms of traditional Catholic teaching. "Diversity" existes in the traditional Church under such norms as Franciscans, Dominicans, Jesuits, lay people. The "inclusivity" of these differrent expressions of the ONE common Catholicism does not demand "exclusion" of any fundamental doctrinal or moral teaching. The "equality" of each form demands the exclusion of that which offends the fundamentally communal faith and morals. In this framework a female, active lesbian, multi-married and divorced, pro-abortion and pro-poyligamous Anglican Bishop is excluded from the inclusivity that defines (fines = limits) the boundaries of the diversity that is open to the mind of a responsiblely acting head of a Catholic school. I think that most readers would agree to the exclusion of a lesbian Anglican Bishop from Catholic inclusivity as an act of perfectly equal treatment, stemming from the love of truth, i.e., the lesbian Bishop has earned the equality established by truth--and that means the exclusion falsity due to loyalty to truth. TRUTH is above and determinat of the three principles.
St. Paul's administration has sought to exclude exclusivity from the principles of diversity, inclusivity and equality with the result that St. Paul's either excludes the student sharing the communality of orthodox Faith (and this contradictions the "open-mindedness" claimed) OR forces a student faithful to the truth of Catholic morality to celebrate the immorality (< truth judgment) of behavior deemed sinful. And that is more than an offense against the dignity of truth, but a sinful affront to a student because it leaves him/hert in a moral contradiction (and that is the mental sickness of multiple or "diverse" personalities). The orthodox student can not receive the equality owed to a believer of truth, rather has his highest principle, truth, EXCLUDED from the diversity, inclusivity and equality of his scholarly life at a Catholic school.
I can only save St. Paul's from the charge of hypocritical "selectivity" if I assume that a non-orthodox-truth has substituted in the opened (sic) minds of those responsible such that they have substituted a differebt turth for the "TRUTH" that Catholicism offers. In effect I may be charging those responsible either with hipocracy or heresy. That is diversity I would not like to be accused of.