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Five months after he published “A Catholic Response to Gender Identity Theory,” Archbishop Alexander Sample of Portland (OR) is facing a backlash from angry parents, as well as some from teachers and school administrators.
The department oversees more than 40 archdiocesan elementary schools and high schools, which educate more than 15,000 students and employ about 1,300 teachers.
The Archdiocese in Portland, Oregon, is closing its schools temporarily following protests of the Archbishop's statement on gender ideology in the classroom.