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1/ There is a lot I could say abt the @USCCB working group, abt how its effect only can be to isolate the #Catholic church further, estrange it from culture & world, and so from mission & evangelization. Maybe I'll say all that soon.
For now, just one thought.
For now, just one thought.
2/ Being elected to chair #Catholic education, +Daly mentioned "historically, Catholic schools arose in the United States during a time when many public schools were de facto Protestant, and often presented a somewhat hostile environment to Catholic families."
3/ Many of you may remember how John McGreevy's Catholicism & American Freedom vividly recounts this, a #Catholic student disciplined for not reciting the Lord's Prayer as Protestants do. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Catholicism_and_American_Freedom/Tv93eR6f1nUC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover
4/ #Catholics know what that sort of discrimination is.
Now imagine you're a #transgender kid in a #Catholic school. Or, for that matter, in a public school if the @USCCB succeeds to prevent changes to law & curricula in name of #religiousliberty.
Now imagine you're a #transgender kid in a #Catholic school. Or, for that matter, in a public school if the @USCCB succeeds to prevent changes to law & curricula in name of #religiousliberty.
5/ Imagine you're a LGBT teacher in a #Catholic school who can be fired today for being LGBT because of this effort to assert #religiousliberty over laws protecting from discrimination.
Or part of a collective bargaining unit that can be dissolved because of relig liberty.
Or part of a collective bargaining unit that can be dissolved because of relig liberty.
