{"id":686,"date":"2019-02-08T22:20:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T22:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/?page_id=686"},"modified":"2019-02-08T22:20:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T22:20:18","slug":"anti-gay-threats-over-council-member-speech-prompt-school-closure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/anti-gay-threats-over-council-member-speech-prompt-school-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic school shuts down, citing protest threats over Council member talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">City Council member Vernetta Alston had been scheduled to <\/span>speak at downtown Immaculata Catholic School on Friday to help kick off Black History Month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Instead, Alston was disinvited, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Alston, an alumna of the school, is a\u00a0lawyer, a wife and a mother. She is also openly gay.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Christopher VanHaight, the Immaculate Conception Church pastor,\u00a0<\/span>shuttered the school and the church Friday, citing unspecified reports\u00a0that unnamed\u00a0groups planned to protest.<\/p>\n<p>These events disappointed Alston and others, including some parents who had invited her to speak at her former school. 9th Street Journal reporter Jake Sheridan <a href=\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2019\/02\/09\/immaculata-catholic-school-shut-down-after-gay-city-council-members-talk-is-cancelled\/\">explains the conflict.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City Council member Vernetta Alston had been scheduled to speak at downtown Immaculata Catholic School on Friday to help kick off Black History Month. 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