to join back in the discussion, at my catholic school, we had obligatory religion classes where we learned shit like the church's stance on gay people, but people always argued? we were all kinda like "can you believe this shit?" so it was kind of a bonding thing. school in general was mostly everyone making fun of the religious things we had to do. even then, it wasn't that bad. they always gave us really fancy food after mass
I honestly feel like 90% of my religion class was either drawing stuff or discussing the holocaust so I don’t know if I have selective memory or what. OH and movie watching. that was really important The topic of sexuality as a whole was just really treated as taboo at my school (I mean in terms of the curriculum) so I don’t think it came up. BUT my religion classes were a clusterfuck. My first religion teacher was always late and then one day he showed up super late and got into a fight with another teacher and started swearing at the principal. we never saw him again. whenever we’d ask where he went, they’d say his mom was sick. and then *he* was sick and then just, nothing. So we went through 3 religion teachers in total that year, one of which made us act or bible scenes and another of which used her whistle all the time. My SECOND year of religion class involved a very angry teacher (the one who got into a fight with my previous religion teacher). and she was constantly on the verge of crying. She had a very short temper and you never knew when she’d either yell at us or break down in tears. she constantly lost entire religion units of material and that year we just had to write reflections. How do you feel about god? write two pages. leave. Draw a religion title page! Name all the steps involved in communion. Nothing controversial. And my third year was world religion so that was just like, history of religion and creation stories and rituals and all that. and fourth year was philosophy. Thus, in my four years of religion class, I do not believe marriage equality was ever discussed. as for mass, it was okay?? It always made me really sleepy and bored though