Oh, we're not gonna take it
No, we ain't gonna take it
Oh, we're not gonna take it anymore
"We’re Not Gonna Take It" By Twisted Sister
Sadly there is not much we can do about it! The courts have spoken!
The announcement from the Worcester Diocese earlier this month of new school policies regarding LGBTQ+ students has sparked a passionate response among Worcester’s queer community.
On Aug. 17, the organization Love Your Labels, in collaboration with the YWCA and MassEquality, launched a petition denouncing the new policy put forward by Bishop Robert McManus, which will apply to the 21 Catholic schools under the diocese. The petition, which gathered over 1,000 signatures by Tuesday evening, calls for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester to revoke the policy.
The new policy, titled “Catholic Education and the Human Person,” has been added to the student handbook for the upcoming school year. It prohibits same-sex relationships and expressions, behaviors inconsistent with birth-assigned sex or actions deemed to cause “confusion or disruption,” with penalties for violation up to expulsion.
But there is push-back from some Catholic schools
Not every school in the diocese is planning to comply with the new policy. Representatives from St. John’s High School in Shrewsbury and Notre Dame Academy in Worcester wrote a joint letter to McManus stating they would maintain their current policies and would not be adopting the new one.
It's not the first time a Catholic school has resisted a directive from McManus. Last summer, the Nativity School of Worcester refused to take down Pride and Black Lives Matter flags, which the bishop stated represented values at odds with Catholic doctrine. McManus responded by prohibiting the Nativity School from calling itself a Catholic school.
That got the bishop’s hackles up!
We've got the right to choose, and
There ain't no way we'll lose it
This is our life, this is our song
We'll fight the powers that be, just
Don't pick our destiny, 'cause
You don't know us, you don't belong
Nope. But unfortunately it is a religious school and they can do whatever they darn please, or so the courts have ruled. I just don’t know why any LGBTQ+ student would want to go a religious based school that are anti-LGBTQ+ just what do they expect?
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