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Long Island Catholic School Bans Gay Couples From Prom

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While a gay student was voted Prom King in Pennsylvania last weekend, some NYC-area schools are still uncomfortable with allowing same-sex couples to attend prom together. St. Anthony's Catholic High School in Long Island has barred a lesbian student from bringing her ex-girlfriend to prom as her date. "We thought it would send a mixed message to OK her request," Brother Gary Cregan, principal of the school, told MSNBC.

Angelina Lange went so far as to request permission from officials at the co-ed, Roman Catholic school in South Huntington, but Cregan explained: "Our Catholic faith specifies that marriage involve a man and a woman, and our policies on dating must reflect that. We mean no malice or disrespect." You can read a long, in-depth article about the whole situation at the Long Island Press.

Ultimately, the private school does have the authority to enforce its own restrictions on school events (although one could question why taxpayers fund private Catholic schools at all), and Lange has accepted their decision, but gay rights activist James Fallarino called the school's decision a form of "bullying." "The message is that the school doesn't really care about its students and that's not a good message," said Fallarino, of the Long Island Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Services Network.

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  • EqualRightsForAll

    Everyone reading this should be appalled. For
    anyone who supports equality of all kinds, PLEASE do yourself a favor and watch
    this amazing new video by an upcoming band, with the lyrics discussing the
    difficulties of this exact situation. Please spread this to anyone you know who
    struggles with this disease they call inequality...

    CREATURE - "Prom Prom"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

  • As much as I hate this kind of discrimination, is there anything preventing the two of them going in alone and then dancing together once inside?

    I'd also like to point out to the administration that the Bible only says man-on-man sex is a sin, it has nothing to say about lesbian sex, marriage, or dating. The irony is that they're not discriminating on that point!

  •  This is so stupid, I can’t believe they’re making such a big
    deal about this. It the 21st century!!! I’m so tired of same-sex
    couples being discriminated against, this happens all the time and is so common
    in our society. Creature even have a song called “Prom Prom” about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
    Come on get with it people!!!

  • G C

    Harmless? The millions that have died from AIDS -many unwitting blood
    transfusion victims- would have a strong case that homosexual sex is not
    harmless. By removing the social mores that have protected millions
    the ruling class are plunging millions of uninformed children into a sin
    that will forever stain their soul.

    It is from chastity and self restraint which charity flows. By
    engineering society -through the media, the schools and corporate
    machine- to be hostile to chastity and self restraint the ruling class
    is launching a direct attack on the charity required of parents to form a
    family.

    There are plenty of long term social ramifications of promoting
    homosexual intercourse. Sex has a indispensable function in society, it
    is the glue that brings forth the next generation. It is the adhesive
    that forms the family group; the family group is the basic cell of
    society. From these basic cells are transmitted a cultures mores and
    morals. For a few generations -starting with the Bolsheviks in the
    USSR- the ruling class has desired the elimination of the family so
    children can be directly socialized by the state dictated mores. This
    promotion of homosexual perversion is the means that is finally allowing
    the ruling class to reach the ends of eliminating the family as the
    transmitter of culture.

    Redefining sex as a means for personal pleasure disorders the divine
    purpose of the act. It takes an expression of life and makes it an
    expression of death. Homosexual sex always leads to death while the
    rightly ordered conjugal sex is the only sex act that leads to life.
    By protecting the rightly ordered heterosexual marriage a society
    protects the divine rights of the next generation. You have as much
    right to sodomize your friend as you have to rub your genitals against a
    tree. A moral wrong can never be a right.

    Those in the social engineering machine are not protecting personal
    rights. The rhetoric about rights is a cover story to fool the masses
    into introducing the evil of sin into their family while subsequently
    fooling the masses into thinking they still hold the moral high ground.
    With a battery of social engineering tools -media, schools, corporate
    culture, eg.- at their disposal it seems like they are achieving their
    ends of subverting family into a mere relationship of convenience.

    Those culturally aware are not fooled. The ruling class social
    engineers are merchants of death disordering a desire that is the glue
    that holds together the basic unit of society - the family- into a
    behavior that plunges the soul into the dead end of self centered
    pleasure. A dead end that ensures that the next generation is
    eliminated. This is the fruit of sin.

  • G C

    The ironic thing is that the Catholic
    Church is the universal Church. It accepts everyone -including
    homosexuals- and has always accepted everyone for 2,000 years. It has
    sanctified its members by introducing a moral code which leads to
    spiritual enlightenment.

    Now within the "land of the free" this Church which was founded by Jesus
    himself can not operate in the USA unless it acquiesces to the moral
    code of the ruling class. Any other moral code it seems is not allowed
    if it does not acquiesce to the ruling class moral code.

    This is the same moral code relentlessly pounded into our heads by
    public schools, TV, internet and enforced by cooperate America. 50
    years of social engineering in schools, colleges, workplaces and on TV
    have lead to a population that can not see the long term consequences of
    its actions. our actions not only affect us but they affect the next
    generations. People can not make connections between behavior and
    consequences in this environment that makes every perverted impulse a
    "right". Now the Church is being strong armed into operating under the
    ruling class moral code and it is being strong armed by media to grant
    license for sodomy.

    This is the same moral code that kills babies by the millions and has
    destroyed the family of the working class. Where are the rights for the
    millions killed? The truth is that this is rule of might is right.
    The might says that homosexuals are the new social model to follow and
    their cause is championed at every turn in the ruling class social
    engineering machine. Where are the rights for those that want to
    operate under their own moral code; a moral code that has nurtured
    western culture for 2,000 years? Do only those selected by the ruling
    class as "special" those that indulge in decadent behavior have rights?
    Can a moral wrong really be a right?

    Now that the family has been largely ruined among the poor it seems
    that sodomy is the new avant garde of ruling class degeneracy to ruin
    the family for the rest of us. Dance to the ruling class tune or else.
    Seems like only a few -usually those of faith- have the social and
    cultural awareness to resist the social engineering ideological
    subversion. The rest of the sheep dance to the ruling class tune.

  • ok_to_ask

     Why is it so wrong for the school to simply say they believe that a homosexual lifestyle is wrong. Just because our culture - today, not a generation ago - accepts the homosexual lifestyle, why does this Catholic school have to accept it.In the future, what if someone wants to marry his dog. He says he loves his dog with unconditional love and his dog loves him with unconditional love. It may not be "normal" in today's culture, but what's to say it won't become "normal." AOL had an article about a guy in Amsterdam who wanted to marry his pillow. Does everyone have to accept that lifestyle. I don't think so.

  • "'We mean no malice or disrespect.'"

    What do these people think malice and disrespect looks like?

  • kindredspirits000

    First of all, St. Anthony's is not a NYC-area school. Huntington is over an hour away from the city. Second of all, it's a CATHOLIC high school. No one expects them to accept people for who they are!

    On a side note, I actually went to this school. Brother Gary wasn't principal then, but he's actually a pretty decent guy in a sea of ignoramuses. No one was allowed to buy prom tickets with a same-sex date, even if you were just friends looking to save money on the cost of a ticket. 

  • pdxuser

    At the end of every school year, it's the annual banning of the gays....

  • The Catholic church is a mess of confusion.

    Catholic High school kids should ask their teachers why Father Roy Bougeoius was excommunicated for saying women should be priests, but the Pope still hasn't decided what to do with Bishop Vangheluwe of Belgium, who admitted he had sex with his
    nephew from age 5-18, then he had sex with the other nephew.  

    The Catholic church committed thousands of child rapes in the Unites States, lied about it consistently and repeatedly, and still, to this day, ignores and shuns the poor victims.

    Read the first 6 pages of the absolutely scathing Philadelphia Grand
    Jury report released in February 2011 at http://www.philadelphiadistric... to see what its really like.If youre' gay, be gay.  Don't worry about what the Catholic Church has to say.  They don't practice Catholicism, and no longer speak for God.

  •  Oh my god - I've spent the last hour scanning that grand jury report.   the filth, the lies, the coverups, the twisted logic, the terrorizing of victimized kids etcc etc - is beyond belief, and I have long been aware of the problems of the catholi cchurch and the cover up

    The whole fucking rotten institution should be dismantled piece by, piece, the trillions the church owns should be given to the poor, and the laws should be changed so more jails can be filled with these creeps and gtheir supporters.

    And if you wonder why the church hates gay people, and also babbles about "protecting life "  - well its all a smokescreen to hide what would have made hitler proud.

    Death to this church,  all over the world.

    Thanks Patrick - nothing like reading a grand jury report vs the sound bites on the news.

    BTW _ i Know a couple of ultra right wing catholics, basically nutcases.  Both were born and grew up duirng the 1960s in the Boston area when the scandal had yet to break.

    And to further hide the scandal, the church moved Bernard CArdinal Law to the vatican, with which we do not have an extradtion treaty.

  •  thgeir problem is they think they are God.  If there was a hell, it would be overflowing, with the church officials bubleing up from active volcanos.

    TKS for the link - to add to my list

    Try www.catholicarrogance.org,    www.nobeliefs.com/nazis.htm

  • JeffreyRO55

    The catholic church claims to only oppose homosexual acts, not homosexual people, yet every chance they get they do something to marginalize homosexual people. They are a very bad organization.

  •  they speak with forked tongue and poison minds.  Just like those slimy ground crawling critters with fangs that poison bodies.

    You cant blame the snakes - god made them what they are and they have an IQ of  near zero.

    For the church......................

  • canofpeas

    The prom was mostly for squares; surprising that gays would even bother.

  • Guest

     more hypocrisy from the devil's  workers

  • Roger_the_Shrubber

     The church considers homosexuality sinful, that's their right. Of course they don't want it flaunted in their face, it's not a question of hate, a word that gets thrown at anyone who dares disagree with secular liberal orthodoxy.  

  • When students attend St. Anthony's or any LI Catholic school, they do not make a promise to be Catholic. They agree to respect the values and beliefs of their teachers and peers, even to become educated in Catholic theology. In the same way, the decision to accept tuition from these parents and students should obligate the school to reciprocate that respect, which means allowing students to be who they are so long as it is not harmful to themselves or others. Acceptance and enlightenment should be the cornerstone of any institution of learning, especially during these formative and often difficult years. As an alumna of St. Anthony's, I'm deeply disappointed in the lack of support and sensitivity they are showing here.

  •  NJM107 - its not really the school - its the good priests being terroized by the vatican, and caving in and saying yess sir to what contributes to the suicides of thousands of gay kids every year.
    Its all about power , money and absolutismn.  Anytime their beliefs" (things not grounded in fact)   are challenged in any way, they will stop at nothing to protect the source of their money and power.

    Because once the unraveling begins and the good people start to ask questions, it will be all over.

    Back in the 1500s, as the reformation began with Martin Luther, came the Inquistion.  People thown in dank cell holes in the ground, burned at the stake, boilded alive in oil, for daring to challenge the pope and the church re their "infalibility"

    the  HOLY inquisition of mass murder went on until the 1830s.  And their banned book list didn't end until 1966.

    but like that stray dog I got from the pound years ago, it had been trained to be horribly vicious when a stranger came to the door.   After it bit the neighbors kids,  I did what I had to do and got the pound to put it too sleep.

    Where is the pound for the hcurch?

    As someone said during the french revolution to free the people of hte church hierarchy and the kinds who were working with it.................

    "mankind will be free only when the last king is strangled with the guts of the last priest.

    Well the kings are mostly gone.   the "PRIEST" still lives in the form of hte vatican.

    Now you know why my whole extended family, with only a couple old dottering aged aunts, has left this medieval monstrosity.

    Describes do well by one of my students as the :"godafther of Pedophilia"

  • chuzzlewit

    we must remember the parable of the cleansing of the gym, when jesus got very angry and ripped down the "catch a falling star" banner, overthrew the tables and chased the gay prom guests out into the streets

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