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UK School’s Anti-Bullying Education Not Spurred by "Gay Shoes"

By Winnie McCroy | Wednesday May 15, 2013
A London Catholic school said their decision to call in gay rights group Stonewall to give lessons on homophobic bullying was not prompted by a five-year-old boy calling another student’s shoes "gay."

Lesbian Catholic School Teacher Fired in Ohio

By Jason St. Amand | Friday Apr 19, 2013
The principal of a Catholic high school in Columbus, Ohio, fired a teacher after someone noticed that, in her mother’s published obituary, she has a same-sex partner.

Big Canadian Province to Pressure Catholic School to Allow Gay Groups

By Jason St. Amand | Tuesday Jun 5, 2012
Some Catholic schools in Canada are prohibiting students from creating gay-straight alliances but an amendment to a law may change that.

Gay Student Says He Was Chucked Out of Dorm Room Due to ’Phobic Roomie

By Kilian Melloy | Thursday Mar 17, 2011
A student at Seton Hall University says that he was forced out of his dorm room after his roommate complained to the administration about being assigned housing with a gay man.

Canada’s Catholic Schools Won’t Ban GLSEN - & Won’t Teach Hate

By Steve Weinstein | Thursday Jan 13, 2011
Apparently as a result of media reports, a school district in rural Ontario has reversed itself & will allow gay-straight alliances. But the board went even further, tempering the church’s teachings on the sinfulness of homosexuality.

Mass. Cardinal: Catholic schools welcome all

By Jay Lindsay | Thursday May 20, 2010
Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley on Wednesday defended a priest who denied admission to a parish school to a gay couple’s child, calling it a pastoral decision and saying the priest had his "full confidence and support."

Mass. church to help find school for gays’ son

By Jay Lindsay | Friday May 14, 2010
The head of education for the Boston Archdiocese offered Thursday to help find a different Catholic school for a boy denied acceptance at a Hingham Catholic school because his parents are gay.

Mass. Catholic school won’t admit lesbians’ son

By Jay Lindsay | Thursday May 13, 2010
A Roman Catholic school has withdrawn its acceptance of an 8-year-old boy with lesbian parents, saying their relationship was "in discord" with church teachings, according to one of the boys’ mother

Canadian Teacher, Fired for Being in Gay Relationship, Won’t Sue

By Kilian Melloy | Friday Apr 30, 2010
A lesbian teacher in Canada says that she has no plans to take her de facto firing from a Catholic school to court.

Was Canadian Teacher Fired For Being Gay?

By Kilian Melloy | Thursday Apr 29, 2010
A Canadian music teacher who was hired for a year to instruct at a Catholic school in Vancouver says that she was relieved of her teaching duties and "sent home" for the remainder of her contract after parents complained about her same-sex life partner having a baby.