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Mandatory ‘Normal’ Marriage Assembly at High School Goes Predictably Off the Rails

Posted by on Apr 4, 2012 in Separation of Church & Prostate | 9 comments

Oh. Hell. No.

When an article begins like this:

When DeLaSalle senior Matt Bliss heard rumors that the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis planned to hold a mandatory school assembly to talk about marriage, and potentially gay marriage, he remembers thinking, “This is not going to end well.”

He was right.

…You just know it’s going to be good.

And when it ends with this:

“I think they were surprised by the history I gave them and surprised that I was so calm,” said Bliss. “I don’t think they expected the response they got from the students.”

They were so upset that the priest and school officials abruptly ended the assembly. Students who were angry were allowed to stay there and talk with the archdiocese volunteers. It was more civil, for a while, but the more questions the presenters tried to answer, the worse it got.

“It was a really awful ending,” said Bliss. “It was anger, anger, anger, and then we were done and they left. This is really a bad idea.”

…It absolutely makes you want to go ahead and read the entire account of exactly how offensively a group of Catholic administrators tried to influence the coming-of-voting-age senior class about the importance of “normal” marriage, and how predictably disastrous the reception by students was.