Jesus and Religion

Did you ever hear the question, "What would Jesus do? " This query has been used to try to reconcile issues of today with the teachings of Jesus Christ. So what would Jesus do about the recent events in Virginia and Denver?

Denver Archdiocese bars student from Catholic preschool since parents are lesbians.

Some parents are considering pulling their children out of a Catholic preschool after the school told a family a student could not return because the parents are homosexual.

In a statement sent to 9NEWS, the Archdiocese said, "Homosexual couples living together as a couple are in disaccord with Catholic teaching."

According to the Archdiocese, parents who enroll their kids at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic School are expected to follow the Catholic Church's beliefs.

"No person shall be admitted as a student in any Catholic school unless that person and his/her parent(s) subscribe to the school's philosophy and agree to abide by the educational policies and regulations of the school and Archdiocese," the statement said.

Virginia Attorney General wants state colleges to end gay protections.

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II has urged the state's public colleges and universities to rescind policies that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, arguing in a letter sent to each school that their boards of visitors had no legal authority to adopt such statements.

"It is my advice that the law and public policy of the Commonwealth of Virginia prohibit a college or university from including 'sexual orientation,' 'gender identity,' 'gender expression,' or like classification as a protected class within its non-discrimination policy absent specific authorization from the General Assembly," he wrote in the letter.

Colleges that have included such language in policies that govern university hiring and admissions -- which include all of Virginia's largest schools -- have done so "without proper authority" and should "take appropriate actions to bring their policies in conformance with the law and public policy of Virginia," Cuccinelli wrote.

So, what would Jesus do?

"What Would Jesus Do?"

Answer: Not What the GOP Talking Heads Suggest

For those who have not heard of Henrietta Hughes, she is a homeless woman who stood up at a town hall meeting and told Barack Obama that she is unemployed and has been forced her to live in her car. She further pleaded with the president to do something to ensure that people like her had housing:

"I have an urgent need, unemployment and homelessness, a very small vehicle for my family and I to live in," she said. "The housing authority has two years' waiting lists, and we need something more than the vehicle and the parks to go to. We need our own kitchen and our own bathroom. Please help."

Now, Michelle Malkin has decided to publicly mock her with taunts like "If she had more time, she probably would have remembered to ask Obama to fill up her gas tank, too." She then went on to say:

Hughes didn't explain the cause of her financial turmoil.Obama didn't ask. And if we conservatives dare to question the circumstances -- and the underlying assumption that it is government's (that is, taxpayers') role to bail her out -- we'll be lambasted as cruel haters of the downtrodden [...]

Well, pardon my unbending belief in fairness and personal responsibility, but why should my tax dollars go to feed the housing entitlement beast?

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The worst part is that Malkin isn't alone. From Limbaugh falsely saying that Hughes "ask[ed] for a car" to others claiming that Hughes is "milking the system," there's no shortage of people who want to bring down the woman who had the potential to a far more sympathetic Joe the Plumber -- an everyday American who is actually negatively affected by the economic policies of our government.

Via Womanist Musings