CV NEWS FEED // CatholicVote President Brian Burch is calling on Catholic high schools across the country to disclose if they currently harbor Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs.
Burch called DEI offices “Marxist programs designed to pit students against each other based on skin color, gender, and so-called sexual orientation.”
“This is a perversion of Catholic social teaching,” he added.
Burch’s call comes just days after news broke that a Michigan Catholic high school parted ways with a Democratic Party operative it had employed as a “DEI director.”
Catholic Central High School in Grand Rapids had paid Tim Marroquín to run its DEI “work group.”
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As CatholicVote reported Thursday, Marroquín has advocated for pushing so-called “diversity” books on children. Per the Grand Rapids Reporter, he gave a 2020 talk on “how to replace books written by white authors in school classrooms with [books] that de-emphasize white characters.”
Marroquín is the chair of the Ottawa County Democratic Party’s Latino Caucus – a position he also held while serving as Catholic Central’s DEI director.
While running for a Holland, MI city council seat in 2017, the activist said that “inclusion and equity” have “to do with … identities related to sexual orientation.”
Burch said Friday that “there needs to be transparency” in Catholic schools about “who these people and their associations are.”
If you know a Catholic school that currently employs a paid DEI director, please email newsfeed@catholicvote.org.
