Catholic Schools’ in line with Catholic teaching on sexuality, is coming under increasing pressure

Catholic Schools’ Religious Liberty 

Under Fire in Nation’s Capital 

by PETER JESSERER SMITH

Their ability to operate themselves, in line with Catholic teaching on sexuality, is coming under increasing pressure there and elsewhere.

The Council of the District of Columbia has unanimously passed legislation revoking legal exemptions that protected Catholic schools and universities in the District of Columbia from having to provide recognition, funds and space to student groups engaged in political homosexual advocacy.

The D.C. Council voted 13-0 on Dec. 1 to approve Councilmember Tommy Wells’ amendment to the D.C. Human Rights Act, which repeals a 1989 federal exemption that allowed religiously affiliated organizations to govern themselves along their religious tenets in matters of sexual orientation.

Robert Destro, a law professor and founding director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Law & Religion at The Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law, characterized the move as a “triumph of ideology.”

“What they are doing is they are basically saying, ‘See, everything has changed now, we’re in charge, we’re going to repeal it, and we’re going to enforce it against all religious institutions,” he said.

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