Yep, that's how it should work. Although the idea of firing teachers/lay workers for not following Catholic doctrine to the T (like anyone does that, even the priests) is reprehensible to me it's their right.
I remember being told in junior high that us kids had no rights once we walked in that door. We were at the mercy of the school and their beliefs. I believe that was in reply to the kids wanting to do a walk-out because they didn't agree with some new rule. They felt it was their right to protest. The teacher informed us that we had no rights and there was nothing we could do about the rules, couldn't sue, couldn't complain since it was our parents' choice to send us to that school. We had to follow their rules. Ugh.
That's still the prevailing belief in Catholic schools.
I think what bothers me most is religious organizations using "freedom of religion" to discriminate and bully people. It's just so... wrong. WWJD?
Also cracks me up when the really nutty ones try to paint Jesus as some kind of conservative, gun-toting (metaphorically), whack job that would squash any opposition to what he preached. Funny, that's not the Jesus I learned and read about for 13 years. Wonder what Bible their reading.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 1 May 2012 05:42 pm (UTC)I remember being told in junior high that us kids had no rights once we walked in that door. We were at the mercy of the school and their beliefs. I believe that was in reply to the kids wanting to do a walk-out because they didn't agree with some new rule. They felt it was their right to protest. The teacher informed us that we had no rights and there was nothing we could do about the rules, couldn't sue, couldn't complain since it was our parents' choice to send us to that school. We had to follow their rules. Ugh.
That's still the prevailing belief in Catholic schools.
I think what bothers me most is religious organizations using "freedom of religion" to discriminate and bully people. It's just so... wrong. WWJD?
Also cracks me up when the really nutty ones try to paint Jesus as some kind of conservative, gun-toting (metaphorically), whack job that would squash any opposition to what he preached. Funny, that's not the Jesus I learned and read about for 13 years. Wonder what Bible their reading.