Posted: July 27, 2022
Green Bay, WI, Bishop David Ricken has just implemented a hateful new policy in diocesan schools that, among other measures, cruelly bans trans students and staff from using their preferred pronouns, clothing, and bathrooms.
According to the Catholic LGBTQ organization New Ways Ministry, the policy also rejects the use of the words "lesbian" and "gay," compares being queer to sexual abuse, and falsely accuses the LGBTQ community of trying to turn people gay.
This kind of bigotry and discrimination isn't just hateful -- it's dangerous. As Kathy Flores, director of the Wisconsin advocacy group Diversity & Resilience, told local station WBAY, "My first thoughts were about the high suicide rates of the LGBTQIA+ youth...
"An organization that claims to be pro-life, this is the opposite of pro-life. This is pro-death, this is pro-harm."
It doesn't have to be this way. Add your name now to oppose Bishop Ricken's hateful education policy, reminding him that Pope Francis wants Catholic bishops to be pastoral and non-judgmental -- and that Jesus is in the midst of the marginalized and exploited LGBTQ community.
Sign the petition:
Love thy neighbor.