SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WOWO): Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese is speaking out against a policy change to allow transgender students to attend a Northern Indiana College.
Saint Mary’s College is located just outside of South Bend and has recently sparked controversy. According to a post on the college’s website, the school’s Board of Trustees approved a non-discrimination policy back on June 23rd to consider “admission for undergraduate applicants whose sex is female or who consistently live and identify as women.”
Now, Bishop Rhoades is urging the college to “correct” the new policy, telling our partners in news at 21Alive that the college’s desire to show hospitality to transgender people is not the problem but says the issue lies in the Catholic college embracing a definition of woman he says is “not Catholic.”
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This isn’t really a Religious Issue, it’s a mental health issue.
Not only is their definition Not Catholic, it also is not based is Science or Reality.
No Institution should ever be promoting/encouraging/normalizing Mental Illness over Fact/Truth/Reality.
And for anyone encouraging Kids to participate in this behavior (I Identify as a _______) should be charged with Child Abuse….school leaders, teachers, school board members, and yes, parents…
Finally a high Catholic official standing up for their faith. If they will not stand up for their faith why have a faith? The teaching of Christ or the church have not changed. What has changed is the level of sanity among the people.
Good for him for doing his job. We’ll have to wait, though, to see whether or not he imposes any kind of sanctions when they ignore him. (And ignore him they will.)
One wonders if the school is planning to expel any students who “identify” as male. After all, it is a “women’s” college.