The Catholic church is at it again. The hypocrisy this time is almost more than I can stand to write about, but I will make my way through it somehow. Let me tell you about the latest. A child was denied admission to St. Paul Elementary school in Massachusetts. Now this in and of itself wouldn’t merit a post,  however, there is a twist. The child was denied admission because the parents are gay! Can you believe that? The Catholic church had priests who were screwing little children and they didn’t excommunicate or get rid of them. Instead, they just moved the priests to different areas. The church also went through a lot to cover up the abuses instead of having the priests removed and arrested. They have had to pay millions to settle abuse claims. Now they are denying a child admission to a school based on the sexual orientation of the parents - which is something beyond the control of the children? Give me a freaking break!!!

How could you possibly justify doing this to a child based on the sexual orientation of the parents? Kids can’t control what their parents do. Don’t they see the total hypocrisy in this? Parents do a lot of things. You can’t help who your parents are. In many cases, adoption gives kids a second chance at a good life. How do you look at a child who has already gone through such things and say, “Hey, I don’t want you here because your parents are gay. The lord loves you. Bye-bye now!”? How can you do that and still sleep at night? How can you make a child pay for what you believe are the sins of the parent? What about parents who sell drugs and end up arrested. Should the children be denied admission?

Parents can be murderers, molesters, rapists, liars, ass holes, mental abusers, physically abusive, adulterers, adulteresses, fornicators, theives or plain horrible people. Are they going to deny admission to all of the children of those people? Are they going to dig into all parent’s lives to discover the bad things they are doing and restrict their children based on that? Of course not. Gay people make easy targets. So many gay boys and girls live in agony because they feel that they can’t be honest and they feel that they have no one to turn to. Kids can be cruel to them because they have learned to be intolerant from their parents. Those intolerant kids, taught to hate by their parents, bring that behavior to school and create a hostile environment for those children. However, that is not the fault of the kids of gay people - that is the fault of intolerant people who don’t teach their children to love everyone. Why is it that people like this preach love in church, yet are the most intolerant and non-loving people you can find?

I have to be honest. I went to a private, parochial school from 5th through 10th. I absolutely hated it. Back when I was there, I had great grades, but I was in misery. I had this idea that Christians were good people and I thought that being in a Christian school would be all happiness and joy. What I found was that the kids were WORSE than ANYTHING I had ever seen in public school. I would have killed to get out of that school. I told my mother how horrible the kids were, but she didn’t believe me.  The only reason that I was finally able to leave was that the school ended after 10th grade. All I can say is THANK GOD!!!!! This kid, sad to say, is likely going to be better off NOT going to this school. I think the child should have the right to go to this school, but this is really a blessing in disguise. Why do I say that? I say that because the school will undoubtedly spend time teaching that homosexuality is wrong. This can be confusing for a child who sees his/her parents as good people. It would be like telling a black kid that black parents are bad. Can you say therapy for life anyone?

Although I dislike the hypocrisy of the Catholic church, I think the parents were incredibly short-sighted to put their child in a Catholic school. It would be like Jewish parents sending their children to a Nazi school. You are just asking for trouble. People who are religious have a hard time NOT judging others - despite the fact that they aren’t supposed to judge. This means that this child would likely be subject to many things that he/she should not be subjected to simply because people don’t like the fact that the parents are gay. There is no question that Catholic school kids have a certain view of homosexuality based on what they are taught and it is no question that some of them would make this kid feel like something is wrong with his/her life. I hope the parents surround this child with all of the love and support they have inside, because if they try to get this kid to be a Catholic or attend another Catholic school, the child is going to need that support and a therapist.

Catholics let me tell you something - HYPOCRISY IS VERY STUPID. Denying admission to the children of one group of parents, but not other sinning parents is HYPOCRISY AND VERY STUPID. Making children pay for whatever the parents are doing IS VERY STUPID! Sending your child into the lion’s den is also VERY STUPID. Spending your time judging people is very stupid. When are people going to stop being very stupid?