A Catholic high school in the Diocese of Nashville, TN, is doubling down on its refusal to allow parents to opt their kids out of an “erotic” and even “salacious” sex-ed course after parents went public nationally with their concerns earlier this week in a report published by LifeSiteNews.
Jim McIntyre, President of Father Ryan High School located in Nashville, stated yesterday that the sex-ed program “by every measurement” is in “full conformity with Church teaching,” adding that as policy “we don’t allow students to opt out of this course.”
The Catholic Diocese of Nashville under Bishop David Choby is backing the school, as LifeSiteNews reported earlier.
But Catholic Canon lawyer Philip Gray, president of the St. Joseph Foundation, said that if the school is, in fact, in “full conformity with Church teaching” as it states, then it would respect parents and their right as primary educator of their children and allow them to decide whether or not the course is appropriate for their children.
“If they are in line with Catholic teaching, how is it that their program — as published and as it is presented — respects parental rights? I would like to know how they are fulfilling the right of parents to have control over sex education in the school?” he told LifeSiteNews.
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The Catholic Church’s teaching is unambiguous when it comes to parental rights in a school setting: (continue reading at LifeSiteNews)