Catholic Schools Get Exemption From LGBTQ+ Compliance

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a memo on August 12 that offered exemptions for some schools on “religious grounds” if they did not wish to adhere to the Biden administration’s Title IX interpretation, which linked federal funding for school lunches to a school adopting radical gender ideology.According to the Catholic News Agency, the memo explained that, while Biden’s mandate applied to most public and private schools, some could be exempt “on religious grounds if there is a conflict between Title IX and a school’s governing religious tenets.“The USDA said in the memo that schools do not necessarily need to “submit a written request for a Title IX exemption in order to claim that exemption” but can be assured of their exemptions if they do send a request to the USDA’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights.On his first day in office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order that required all federal agencies to implement …