Actions Speak Louder Thank Words: What to do when your children's coach is "gay"?

St. Francis believed Catholics should preach always...and when necessary use words. His motto emphasizes the reality that, as our moms told us, "actions speak louder than words." The preaching of our actions can teach good or they can affirm evil. And that's what the article below says. Does it matter when coaches of your children's teams (or teachers or other significant adults in their lives) preach evil with their behavior? Of course! No one would knowingly hire a babysitter who was a sex abuser or a thief. But many, out of political correctness and a desire to demonstrate "tolerance," will let their children be scandalized and confused by homosexuals and lesbians.

That's the point Mary Hasson makes in this article and it's one every parent should pray about and take seriously. Your actions are teaching your children about what's right and wrong. If you accept homosexuality as normal and just an "alternative lifestyle" so will your children. And once they accept depraved sexual desires as normal why shouldn't they accept fornication, adultery, etc.?

When the coach is a lesbian by Mary Hasson
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Belmont University women's soccer teamIt’s a shame when things get ugly right before Christmas. And at a small Christian university in Nashville, Tennessee, things have gotten very ugly indeed.

Lisa Howe has been the women’s soccer coach at Belmont University in Tennessee for the past five years. She’s also a lesbian.

Last week she officially “acknowledged that I am a lesbian and that my partner and I are expecting a baby.”

And, as of last week, she’s also newly unemployed.

Howe frames the issue as discrimination versus pride: “I am proud of who I am and my family and our future.” She called for changes in Belmont’s “policies and attitudes” so that “my family would be safe and welcome.”

The university tiptoed carefully, saying that, “sexual orientation has not been considered in making hiring, promotion, salary, or dismissal decisions,” although Tennessee does not outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Last year, the school refused to recognize a student LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered) group, holding instead a series of campus “conversations” about gays, lesbians, and Christianity.
It’s a crucial conversation, especially in light of the school’s explicitly Christian identity: “Belmont University is a Christian community. The University faculty, administration and staff uphold Jesus as the Christ and as the measure of all things.”

No doubt religious freedom lawyers and employment experts will take up the fight on behalf of Belmont, in the red corner, and Lisa Howe, in the blue corner. Already LGBT groups are filling the bleachers with hecklers who’ve lashed out at the university president for “being a hater” by “remov(ing) employees because they want to start a family with someone of the same gender.” It may take years before courts decide the legal issues

But parents of athletic children are facing the question already: Does it matter that the coach is gay or lesbian?