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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - I should clarify.  My daughter is not an "open advocate" of gay marriage or abortion...not really sure where that came from?  [/quote]

Then she should be fine at either of these schools.[/quote]

Thanks for the post.  I just know she may not be comfortable at a school that focuses on issues like gay marriage and abortion - of course, we all (including her) know the church's stances on them, but I was curious to find out if these two schools are uber-Catholic and you have to be completely in line to fit in, or (to use a really bad analogy) it's more like say, Georgetown University or Boston College, where obviously you should know going in what they believe, but you're also not going to be publicly shamed or anything if you happen to mention you aren't against gay marriage, or whatever.[/quote]

No, I don't think these schools' leadership and teaching style run to shunning or creating social dynamics that do. That said, perhaps more salient than gay marriage or abortion discussions, your daughter probably will be taught sex ed through the lens of the virtues of natural family planning and the dangers of "the contraceptive lifestyle" (I got a refresher course on this when I married in the ADW a couple years ago, which is why it springs to mind). So, you probably want to be prepared to have a concrete talk with her about methods of contraception you think it important for her to know about, if there are some besides NFP, and she (and, like, most of the rest of the class) will get some practice in smiling nicely through lessons they may think are nuts. That said, she may well feel pressured to join in pro-life advocacy type things and you may want to talk through with her how it'd feel to opt out (or, go along, if it were a school sponsored thing).[/quote]

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