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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
I'd take it one step further. His positions on the HPV vaccination and LGBT school club issues have been consistent, logical and warranted from the Diocese's angle.
On the HPV issue:
People tend to forget or ignore that parents did not need Diocese's approval to vaccinate their daughters at all. Everyone knew that - parents, children, media, doctors and teachers. Diocese has zero administrative control over Catholic Board of Education; none. This was entirely a clash of conflicting beliefs in what's right and what's wrong. Catholic doctrine does not allow for pre-marital sex. The fact that many Catholic kids do it anyway is irrelevant to the dilemma; in the eyes of the Church, they shouldn't. So, issuing a spiritual approval of the vaccination protecting kids having sex from HPV would have been a public acknowledgement of the doctrine impotency, or a moral conundrum for the Diocese. So, Bishop Henry had to stay with the doctrine, as he was installed to do.
On the issue of LGBT school clubs:
Again, some people are quick to narrow this conflict to homophobia and bigotry, because it allows them to resort to labeling without looking into the issue at depth. But it is much more to do with the right of Provincial Government to impose secular principles onto the constitutionally established separate education system. Minister Eggen, without any discussion or consultation with multiple boards of education issued an order that required "...the support for the establishment of gay-straight alliances (GSAs) and queer-straight alliances (QSAs)…” in all schools. This was arguably against the recent 2015 Supreme Court decision about the rights of Catholic parents that have children enrolled in Catholic educational institutions and the rights of these institutions to frame education within the tenets of their faith. Bishop Henry called Eggen's approach totalitarian and, as a Catholic leader, he had a point - this was a complicated constitutional rights issue that should have been discussed at more length and involving legal experts.
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The HPV vaccine protects people who only have 1 sexual partner.
It also protects people from other methods of getting the virus.
No where in getting the HPV vaccine does it promote sex before marriage.
Jesus the Shepard gathered his flock and spent extra time finding the ones who strayed to protect them from wolves. That parable alone supports the use of the HPV vaccine not to mention that celebrate teens could marry a non celibate person and be exposed. There is no basis for the supposition that getting vaccinated would change teen behaviour.
So instead he allowed children to be put at risk. That said the parents who didn't vaccinate their kids (only 15% did) are stupid and the public system where 30% still don't vaccinate are also stupid.
Essentially his actions to fight vaccination resulted in roughly half of kids not getting vaccinated which will directly result in deaths. There is no basis in Catholsism for this. It is as indefensible as Jenny Mcarthy's crusade against vaccines.