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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was a deeply closeted kid st a Catholic school not too long ago. I wouldn’t send my gay kid to a Catholic school. In fact, since kids of teen are still discovering their sexuality, I wouldn’t send my presumptively straight kid there either. I got a great education but it came with a large helping of self-loathing and internalized homophobia.

People can say what they want about the church becoming more liberal, but it’s impossible to avoid internalizing the official anti-gay doctrine in that environment. [/quote]

I agree with above. Supposedly a huge number of Catholic priests are actually closeted gay men. So these same men are the ones preaching this hatred from the pulpit.  It's a problem, and I could never do that to my child.[/quote]

To be fair, many of them are NOT preaching anything about homosexuality at all.  I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic school through college, and I never heard a single sermon about homosexuality (or abortion or birth control, for that matter).  It can really depend on the diocese and the parish.  But that doesn't mean that a Catholic school is a healthy place for a gay child.  [/quote]

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