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Originally posted by traxor
I think that the church should change their bigot views, but unfortunately, it will not happen unless there is a new pope. The current pope discriminates anybody that is gay/bisexual.

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First of all even if there is a new Pope it won't likely change a thing in that school because it's not a Catholic school. You've got to realise that the Pope is only the head of the Catholic Church, not the whole Christian church. Personally a lot of the information in the bible regarding homosexuality is from an extremely old era where God did have to lay the law down or everyone would just go do whatever (like in Exodus when Moses left the Jewish population for a few days and a load of them started worshiping stuff made out of gold and stuff). It would make sense for God to have to heavily lay the law down or things would get seriously out of hand.

Now that we're way on from that time the decision is whether we treat the rules as part of an old era where everyone had to follow a very strict set of rules to survive for years under harsh conditions. Or as a general guide for life. Also the fact that marriage is to be life giving. It's not an easy decision for any Christian church to make.

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Originally posted by traxor
The church needs to bring itself into the modern world.

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Very easy to say that, but how can it adapt its teachings away from what is in the Bible. To be honest I'd need to look up more in the Bible about what it says about homosexuality to actually argue further. However I'd be very naive to say that something needs to be brought into the modern world without actually looking up what God had to say on the issue.

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Originally posted by Millenium_edition

okay, so what if the school accepts the girl? right - she will be bullied to death because her parents are lesbians. especially since the parents of the other children in that school are all catholics too; it will just boost de bullying.

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First of all they aren't Catholics, they're Christian, the difference being they don't answer to the Pope (at least it seems so from looking at the school's website).
If the Children were true Christians they wouldn't actually bully the child but try to accept her as she can't be anyway responsible for her parents sexuality. However again, there's one moron in every crowd who would have to bully her.