Fw: [Mpls] De La Salle and Non-Discrimination

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What I find especially gaulling are these very same gay rights "leaders" fail to mention that one of the biggest supporters of adding Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and TRANSGENERED people to this state's Human Rights Act was the Roman Catholic Province of St. Paul and Minneapolis.  What this means is that the bishops that make up this province 

   Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis 
   Diocese of Bismarck 
   Diocese of Crookston 
   Diocese of Duluth 
   Diocese of Fargo 
   Diocese of New Ulm 
   Diocese of Rapid City 
   Diocese of Saint Cloud 
   Diocese of Sioux Falls 
   Diocese of Winona 

When on record as supporters.  Further, they had their lobbyist testify in favor of this admendment in committee and worked the floor for passage.

 

Yet these very same people seem to conveniently forget this when they need to feed their bigotry.  And they definately don't want any facts that will disabuse them of their bigotry.  They don't want to know that nationally 18% of all Catholic School children are black, which is 5 points higher than the black population in the United States.  Or that within major cities that number goes upto 28%. Or how about that over 90% of all Muslim children attending private schools are going to Catholic ones.  As a matter of fact the vast majority of children attending Catholic Schools in the inner cities are non-Catholic.

 

Lastly, I find the "Gay Community" to much more hostile to someone being religious within it, than I do Catholic Church Communities have with G/L/B/T members within them.

 

Shawn A. Dorisian

New member of the Philips Community

And a long standing member of St. Maron's Maronite Church


		
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