Firestorm over column on gays in Catholic paper

Dan82 · Jun 11, 2010

http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...ce_on_gays_in_catholic_paper/?s_campaign=8315

A contributor to the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston said yesterday he regretted a portion of a column that has infuriated gay Catholics in the region.
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In the column, published last week, the writer argued that one reason the children of gay parents should not be admitted to Catholic schools is the “real danger’’ that they would bring pornography to school.

That allegation, plus several others in the column, has drawn a torrent of criticism from gay rights advocates.

And yesterday, the editor of the paper, The Pilot, said in a statement, “The tone of the piece was strong, and we apologize if anyone felt offended by it.’’

The controversy began June 4, when The Pilot published a column by Michael Pakaluk, a former philosophy professor at Clark University in Worcester and former visiting scholar at Harvard who now teaches in Virginia. Pakaluk was reflecting on another controversy, regarding the decision by a Hingham priest to rescind the acceptance of a child of a lesbian couple to a local parochial school...
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Revan · Jun 11, 2010

So if they can't be parents unless biologically related. If I have a baby with a surrogate, that makes me a parent then. Oh and the factor that he just said every case of foster parents and adoption is null and void because they aren't biologically related. BAHAH what an idiot.

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