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Portland Catholic school revokes admission for same-sex couple’s children

Just weeks before the start of the school year, the pastor who oversees St. Agatha Catholic School in Southeast Portland rescinded an offer of enrollment to the children of a same-sex couple.

The decision by the Rev. Father Luan Tran, the pastor of the neighboring St. Agatha Catholic Church.

“[Tran] said that he wanted to protect young children from seeing families like ours, and that having our family be a part of the school could be perceived as a scandal,” the parent said. “He said that in Catholicism, marriage is between a man and woman, and what would it do to the other kids in the class to find out that our kids have two parents of the same sex.”

The school had known since mid-May that they were a same-sex couple, the parent said, because they provided that information when their child came to St. Agatha for a shadow day. But Tran did not take action until months later, leaving them scrambling for a new plan just weeks from the start of the school year.

They have not yet had the heart to tell their child about the change, the parent said.

Some parents said they are now considering whether they should remove their own children from the school.

https://www.oregonlive.com/education/202...ldren.html