Catholics get one right: Anti-gay petition

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

Imagine my surprise and pleasure at seeing this article, describing the Catholic cult's latest attempt to ban homosexuals:

The Vatican is hoping to use the average teenager's natural fear of being called gay to increase signatures on their petition opposing a law which will allow adults to be [homosexual].

Archbishop Vincent Nichols said: "Teachers will tell pupils that any pen that hasn't signed the gay marriage petition is a gay pen. And we all know who uses gay pens, don't we?

"After that, it's a matter of personal conscience how the teachers proceed . . . This method will only work on male pupils, but the girls will just know their place and do as they're told."

Any pupil refusing to sign will be ignored by staff, on the grounds that they cannot understand them because they do not speak 'Poovish'.

The pupils will also be excluded from after-school activities until they hand in their Gay Card.

Staff at Catholic junior schools will take a more sensitive approach by telling the children that bad people want to kill their mummy and replace her with a big hairy man who hates the Baby Jesus.

Granted, the Catholic schools teach paganism and idolatry, but at least in this case, they've gotten it right.

(Even a broken clock is right twice a day . . .)

[Mary Etheldreda]

Re: Catholics get one right: Anti-gay petition

Certainly there are no gay pens in my home!

[Noah Sole]

Re: Catholics get one right: Anti-gay petition

Gay pen - that'd be one like this right?

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Catholics get one right: Anti-gay petition

I have it on good authority that half the monks wear pink lacy panties under their robes.

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

Re: Catholics get one right: Anti-gay petition

I have it on good authority that half the monks wear pink lacy panties under their robes.

Hence the ready supply of gay pens.

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

Re: Catholics get one right: Anti-gay petition

I have been informed that the "Daily Mash" is a parody site.

But that the story is based on an actual petition, so my comments are still valid.

The Catholic Education Service (CES) has written to every state-funded Catholic secondary school in England and Wales and asked them to urge pupils to sign a petition against gay marriage, it has been reported today in PinkNews.co.uk. The British Humanist Association (BHA) has branded the revelation as ‘absolutely outrageous’, and believes that, if accurate, the CES has likely broken multiple laws in pushing such a petition in pupils.


Last month, the CES wrote to all Catholic secondary schools and asked them to draw attention to a letter against gay marriage from the Archbishops of Westminster and Southwark which was read out at Sunday Mass on 11 March. The CES also asked schools to ‘draw attention’ to pupils as young as 11, a petition against gay marriage from the Coalition for Marriage.


Pink News’s article highlights that the CES’s actions likely broke the Equality Act 2010, which prohibits discrimination against pupils based on their sexual orientation. The BHA believe the CES’s actions likely also break sections 406-7 of the Education Act 1996, which forbids ‘the promotion of partisan political views in the teaching of any subject in the school’, and requires balanced treatment of political issues. This law was successfully used in 2007 to stop schools showing Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, without also explaining scientific errors in the film.

At least the law has been used for something positive in the past. But now the opposite edge of the sword will do the cutting.