Monday, April 30, 2012

Mount Pleasant's Sacred Heart Academy commencement speech controversy earning international media attention


All across the U.S and even into Great Britain, people are reading about the commencement at a small, Catholic school in mid-Michigan. Sacred Heart Academy alumnus Dominic Sheahan-Strahl, 32, was supposed to deliver the keynote address at graduation on May 20. But the administration uninvited him when they learned he was openly gay. Sacred Heart lead administrator Denny Starnes told the student body, which includes Sheahan-Stahl's brother William, that he stands in support of the graduate. The Saginaw Diocese responded the school did not contact the diocese, and the diocese does not believe individuals who deny the Catholic beliefs should not have a platform to speak.

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