{"id":951,"date":"2015-03-24T14:53:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T18:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=951"},"modified":"2015-03-24T15:28:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T19:28:02","slug":"lepantos-hichborn-to-n-j-teachers-bishop-please-find-something-catholic-or-true-in-your-condemnation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=951","title":{"rendered":"Lepanto\u2019s Hichborn to N.J. Teacher\u2019s Bishop: Please Find Something Catholic or True in Your Condemnation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an open letter <\/a>to New Jersey Bishop Paul Bootkoski, Lepanto Institute’s Michael Hichborn wonders what exactly the bishop found wrong with these facebook comments made by a teacher in his diocese:<\/p>\n

\"Jannuzzi<\/a>Hichborn asks:<\/p>\n

Your Excellency, I can\u2019t speak for any other group, but the only \u201cagenda\u201d at the Lepanto Institute is to stand in defense of this teacher\u2019s fidelity to Catholic teaching; a fidelity you imply is absent from her facebook post. You said, \u201cThe teacher\u2019s comments were disturbing and do not reflect the Church\u2019s teachings of acceptance.<\/strong>\u201d There are several things that are unclear about this statement, which we hope you will clarify.<\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. What was disturbing about Mrs. Jannuzzi\u2019s comments?<\/strong> Aside from the grammatical and typographical errors in her online comments, Mrs. Jannuzzi\u2019s facebook post says in its essence that there is a homosexual agenda, this agenda is aimed at the slow extinction of western civilization, and that children and humanity need healthy families consisting of a mother and a father.<\/em>\n
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    1. Was her comment about the existence of a homosexual agenda what disturbed you? If so, you should be disturbed by the reality of it, not because she said it. We know there is a homosexual agenda because in 1989, the book, \u201cAfter the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90\u2019s<\/a><\/strong>,\u201d lays out a six-point plan for how they could transform the beliefs of ordinary Americans with regard to homosexual behavior in a decade-long time frame. A quick glance back shows how the plan was executed to perfection, and the end result is that same-sex \u201cmarriage\u201d is the greatest fight of this generation.<\/em><\/li>\n
    2. Was her comment regarding the slow extinction of western civilization disturbing? Considering the fact that no less than five cities (Sodom, Gomorrah, and three others) were completely incinerated for one of the four sins which cry to Heaven for vengeance<\/a>, it seems that her only misstatement was the use of the word \u201cslow.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n
    3. It\u2019s hardly conceivable that you would be disturbed by her closing statement that children and humanity need healthy families consisting of a mother and a father. So please explain to the faithful in precise and unambiguous terms what was disturbing about Mrs. Jannuzzi\u2019s facebook post.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    4. What did Mrs. Jannuzzi say that did not reflect Catholic teaching?<\/strong> If there is something which Mrs. Jannuzzi said that is not in line with Catholic teaching, then the faithful need to be taught by Your Excellency what she said that was in error, and what the teaching of the Church is.<\/em><\/li>\n
    5. What is the Catholic teaching on Acceptance? <\/strong>I searched all through the Catechism of the Catholic Church and I can\u2019t find a single reference to a teaching on \u201cacceptance.\u201d Would Your Excellency be so kind as to explain to the faithful what the Magisterial teaching on \u201cacceptance\u201d is so that we may be sure of living in union with the teachings of Holy Mother Church?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      The good Bishop Bootkoski told the press that the teacher was on leave and not fired, but Hichborn notes in his letter that her children say her contract was not renewed.\u00a0 He seems to have lied.<\/p>\n

      Hichborn closes with:<\/p>\n

      Your Excellency, this situation is greatly distressing to the faithful. It is clear that the world is engaging in an all-out assault on the Church\u2019s moral teachings and that our freedom to openly practice our faith is in grave danger. Please reexamine and reconsider the injustice being done to a faithful Catholic teacher in your employ.<\/em><\/p>\n

      God bless you, Your Excellency.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

      It’s unfortunate that we are placed in a position to have to be so gentle and respectful toward such men, is it not?\u00a0 Who has done this to us and what have we done to enable them?<\/p>\n

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      In an open letter to New Jersey Bishop Paul Bootkoski, Lepanto Institute’s Michael Hichborn wonders what exactly the bishop found wrong with these facebook comments made by a teacher in his diocese: Hichborn asks: Your Excellency, I can\u2019t speak for any other group, but the only \u201cagenda\u201d at the Lepanto Institute is to stand in …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}