Arkansas Catholic schools crack down on LGBT students
The Catholic Diocese of Little Rock has a new plan to keep LGBT issues out of Arkansas’ Catholic schools. Last week, the Diocese issued a new addendum to the student handbook used by all Catholic elementary and secondary schools in the state with strict new prohibitions on LGBT identities. The guidance outright rejects non-heterosexual orientations and transgender identities and requires that students who express such identities be expelled. Even graduates who later transition will be deadnamed on their diplomas. It claims to respect those who “struggle” with LGBT identities, but calls them “untrue." It claims that in reality LGBTQ people are struggling with sin. That sin is not to be celebrated, worn as an identity, but to be repented of, like adultery and other sexual sins prohibited by scripture - 1 Corinthians 6:8 Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men[a] 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards