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Quixote1818

(29,022 posts)
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 11:57 PM Jan 2019

Gay valedictorian banned from speaking at Covington graduation 'not surprised' by D.C. controversy


A gay student who was barred by the Covington diocese from speaking at his 2018 graduation, is "not surprised" by the Covington Catholic High School video.

Jan. 22, 2019, 4:19 PM MST
By Ben Kesslen
Video of white students from Covington Catholic High School confronting a Native American elder at the Indigenous Peoples March in Washington, D.C., last Friday went viral this past week. However, this is not the first time a school overseen by the Diocese of Covington in Kentucky has come under national media scrutiny.

In May of last year, the Catholic diocese ruled just hours before Holy Cross High School's graduation that the openly gay valedictorian and the student council president could not give their planned speeches at the Covington school's official graduation ceremony.

More: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/gay-valedictorian-banned-speaking-covington-graduation-not-surprised-d-c-n961446?cid=sm_npd_ms_fb_ma
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Gay valedictorian banned from speaking at Covington graduation 'not surprised' by D.C. controversy (Original Post) Quixote1818 Jan 2019 OP
NBC's headline is somewhat misleading... regnaD kciN Jan 2019 #1
Sounds like the Pope needs to clean house in that diocese. nt Quixote1818 Jan 2019 #2
Popes love to clean house ChubbyStar Jan 2019 #3
Nothing surprising in that misanthrope Jan 2019 #4
the catholic church has been evil for millenia longer than baptist existed nt msongs Jan 2019 #5

regnaD kciN

(26,045 posts)
1. NBC's headline is somewhat misleading...
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 12:10 AM
Jan 2019

It seems to imply that the student attended the same school as the MAGAteens, when it was a different school in the same church diocese.

misanthrope

(7,436 posts)
4. Nothing surprising in that
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 12:31 AM
Jan 2019

Mobile, Alabama's Catholic high school encourages its students to join a field trip to the national March for Life each year. I've seen my status-conscious nephews push for inclusion in the trip. They also stage a local version and I've watched my Trump-loving in-laws gush over their youngsters' participation in it.

In 2016, I sat at my nephew's graduation ceremony and listened as the valedictorian made a bald political statement from the stage, telling everyone there to pray for a conservative Supreme Court appointment to replace the departed and revered Antonin Scalia.

Funny how I hear local Catholics belittle Baptists as judgmental troglodytes but the only difference I can really see between them is Catholics don't feel the need to drink in secret.

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