Christine Viken wrote:
Yes, discrimination is an uncomfortable subject. ...
De LaSalle is not legally prohibited from discriminatory practices. ...
Brother Michael had responded to Mr. Patrick Scully *>>[founder/first
owner of Patrick's Cabaret ]<< that some uses might have to have
approval by the Archbishop, since De LaSalle is owned by the
Archdiocese of St. Paul. You are aware of that, because Mr. Scully
spoke of their discussion in testimony at public hearings.
*emphasis added
As a private entity, DeLaSalle is designed to discriminate and that
discrimination is supported, philosophically, by both church and state.
DLS's goal is to turn out generations of bright, middle class, mostly
Catholic kids who are educated properly to succeed and excel in college
and, therefore, become the leadership of Minneapolis. You can go back
through the leadership both public and private in Minneapolis (and
elsewhere) for probably 80 years and show a steady stream of leaders who
went to school at DeLaSalle. They discriminate by not taking kids who
aren't bright or who failed to pay attention in grade school for
whatever reasons. They are not required to open their doors to kids with
severe emotion problems even if they have genius IQs and their parents
are wealthy or to kids with labor intensive disabilities. At one point
they discriminated against females, and may still for all I know. They
definitely discriminate against GLBT kids, though in some instances they
discriminate through various types of ignorance and torture, i.e. the
church's position on GLBT lives and the pederast priests so much in the
news.
Scully asked the right question: If DLS controls who gets use of the the
stadium and when, will GLBT sports events be able to use the venue?
Brother Michael declined and tossed it to the Archbishop. Then, this
being a regional-city-history-park-stadium, during Gay Pride Week can we
use that stadium for GLBT regional games? Not on your tin type, buckaroos.
As a person whose been known to describe myself as "queer as a set of
purple teeth," and just for the amusement of it, if this stadium is
built, I will do all in my power and that of my GLBT friends, family,
acquaintances, Catholics, and even enemies, to see that high profile
GLBT events are requested for scheduling in that stadium. Oh, it's gonna
be a nightmare--demonstrations, media, court cases. What fun.
WizardMarks, Central
An Irish Catholic woman from Cincinnati
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