tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post380131056538838549..comments2024-03-23T12:05:23.537-05:00Comments on The Wild Reed: "A Useful, Essential, and Comprehensive Manual"Michael J. Baylyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-31189269285452820372008-11-19T06:54:00.000-06:002008-11-19T06:54:00.000-06:00Just curious, but are there similar books that add...Just curious, but are there similar books that address the situation of GLBT youth in the public schools? Is there much difference between the U.S. and Canadian situation there?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-60694838004445349702008-11-18T18:24:00.000-06:002008-11-18T18:24:00.000-06:00Congrats, Michael, on the mostly good Canadian rev...Congrats, Michael, on the mostly good Canadian review. The market for the book is evidently in Canada because their bishops are more enlightened than US bishops.<BR/><BR/>Interesting issue he raises about the contradiction: a "safe" environment cannot be made within the Catholic Church. True, students are by definition unsafe in an institution that calls their sexual orientation "disordered." Under that logic, parents should not send their GLBT children to Catholic school.<BR/><BR/>But weren't you addressing the concrete situation of students whose parents actually have put them in Catholic schools not knowing about their child's orientation or not knowing the Church's teaching, or not knowing the potentially harmful conditions? <BR/><BR/>Surely a school staff can do something to buffer their GLBT students in the concrete situation even though logically the kid should not be there.<BR/><BR/>Under the reviewer's logic the staff can't choose a strategy of working within an evil system to protect the children. They would have to object to the evil system and get fired.<BR/><BR/>Am I understanding this correctly?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-37895256556468404712008-11-18T06:42:00.000-06:002008-11-18T06:42:00.000-06:00Hello,A totally off-topic note...You wrote about w...Hello,<BR/><BR/>A totally off-topic note...<BR/><BR/>You wrote about women priests a while ago. Thought this might be of interest:<BR/><BR/>http://katolskakyrkan.blogspot.com/2008/11/open-letter-to-pope-about-women.html<BR/><BR/>P.S. I've got a new blog now.Charlotte Thérèsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932236440961471908noreply@blogger.com