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Raising LGBT Standards in Catholic Schools
National Catholic Schools Week concludes today having celebrated, under the theme “Catholic Schools Raise the Standards,” the many positives that Catholic education provides millions of students. In...
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Formation of Gay-Straight Alliances Should Be Top Priority at Catholic Schools
Today is National Gay-Straight Alliance Day. February 6th has been marked by a coalition of youth advocacy organizations to raise awareness for the need of such organizations in our schools. Catholic...
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Fired Lesbian Teacher Offers Hope Through Vulnerability
Erin Macke returned to her alma mater, a Chicago-area all-girls’ Catholic high school, to teach in 2009. Two years later, high school administrators chose not to re-hire Erin after it was revealed that...
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Carla Hale’s Firing Raises Questions of Law and Church Policy
Carla Hale Educator Carla Hale remains terminated from Bishop Watterson High School in Columbus, even though support for her continues to grow and legal action against the Columbus Diocese commences....
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Graduation Gown for Transgender Student Becomes an Issue at Catholic H.S.
A Catholic high school in Albuquerque is insisting that a male transgender student wear a girl’s graduation robe at the school’s commencement ceremonies next week. Damian Garcia Damian Legacy...
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Administrator Affirms Anti-Lesbian Firing, As Support Continues to Grow for...
Carla Hale Ohio’s Columbus Catholic schools office upheld a decision last week to fire teacher Carla Hale, whose same-gender partner became public in her mother’s obituary earlier this year. This most...
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NEWS NOTES: August 19, 2013
Here are some items that may be of interest: 1) Using hyperbolic language, the Catholic bishops in England released a document responding to that nation’s passage of marriage equality earlier this...
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LGBT Employees Must Be Protected at Catholic Institutions
Jim Smith Regular readers of Bondings 2.0 know the shameful trend of LGBT employees at Catholic schools and parishes being terminated for their sexual orientation, gender identity, and support for...
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Another Teacher Is Fired for Marrying; What You Can Do to Stem These Actions
Tippi McCullough Yet another LGBT employee has been fired from a Catholic school, this time in Arksansas. The firing at Mount St. Mary Academy in Little Rock adds yet another victim to anti-equality...
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Alberta Bishop Calls New LGBTQ Guidelines “Totalitarian” and “Anti-Catholic”
Education Minister David Eggen announcing the new guidelines In Canada, new guidelines from the province of Alberta’s Education Ministry may push transgender policies under development in a positive...
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Reconciliatory Path Opened for Catholic School that Banned Transgender Students
Mount Saint Charles Academy The Rhode Island Catholic school whose ban on transgender students ignited controversy last week has released two statements which have potential for opening doors to...
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Iowa Catholic School Will Not Recognize Student for LGBT Scholarship
Liam Jameson A Catholic high school in Iowa which previously fired a gay teacher is now refusing honors to a graduating senior who is also gay. Officials at Dowling Catholic High School, West Des...
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On Prom Dates as Pastoral Care: A Letter to My High School
Note: Bondings 2.0 writer Bob Shine is a 2008 graduate of Saint John’s High School, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. This open letter is based on correspondence he sent to several school administrators this...
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Catholic High School Twice Rejects Student Request for LGBT Group
Louis Fisher Should Catholic high schools host LGBT student groups, commonly referred to as gay-straight alliances or GSAs? Louis Fisher certainly believes so. Twice this past spring, Fisher, a senior...
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Lesbian Student Ejected from Catholic Prom Welcomed by Neighboring School;...
Aniya Wolf, left, and her date at prom At Bondings 2.0, we often find that there are almost always too many Catholic LGBT news stories and perspectives to cover. Not to mention the fact, that some of...
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Gay Student Banned from High School Dance Files Lawsuit
Lance Sanderson By Bob Shine, New Ways Ministry, September 26, 2016 A Catholic high school in Tennessee is facing a discrimination lawsuit from a gay former student banned from attending a formal dance...
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Don’t Forget! Spirit Day is THIS Thursday, October 20, 2016!
By Glen Bradley, New Ways Ministry, October 18, 2016 What is Spirit Day? It is an annual national event reminding schools to confront anti-LGBT bullying and bias. Click here for more info from GLAAD....
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Why Catholic High Schools Need LGBTQ+ Student Groups
Last month, a St. Louis, MO, Catholic high school, Nerinx Hall, made news when it turned down a student request to establish a gay-straight alliance (GSA). Questions arose about how Catholic high...
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Students Protest Catholic School’s Decision to Remove Rainbow Flag
Controversy over LGBT issues in one of Canada’s Catholic school systems has once again made headlines, resulting in unfortunate harm during Pride celebrations. Students protesting at Blessed Oscar...
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GSAs in Ontario Catholic Schools Grow Students’ Faith, Build ‘Glory of God’
Gay-straight alliances are sometimes controversial in Catholic education. Yet five years after some Canadian legislators required schools to offer them if requested, Catholic schools in the province of...
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