Catholic Schools Keep Kids Away From Lesbian Astronaut

Teaching kids that homophobia is A OK

Anne McClain at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. Public domain photo by NASA/Elizabeth Weissinger on Wikimedia Commons

Respected religious institutions drive homophobia in the United States. They teach it in both churches and schools. Three Catholic schools in the Spokane area just handed kids a vivid object lesson in how to stigmatize LGBTQ people. While diocese leaders are being publicly coy, teachers, parents, and students…