Stunts and parishners are speakg up for a Catholic prit after two gay stunts at Gee Washgton Universy said they want him removed for supportg the Church's stance on homosexual behavr.
Contents:
- FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
- WHY THREE GAY CATHOLICS LEFT THE CHURCH – AND WHY THEY RETURNED
- THE DC CATHOLIC GAY MAFIA
FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
Digny/Washgton celebrat the wholens and hols of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenred, and Queer Catholics. Gillpie highlighted Judge’s mistry to AIDS victims and his gay rights activism as “an openly gay prit. Kev Gillpie durg his hoy picts Francisn Father Mychal Judge, who was killed servg on 9/11 and acrdg to Gillpie was an openly gay prit.
Mass programs hand out by volunteers also bore the flag, which is a symbol of homosexual and transgenr “pri” and acceptance. We nnot be unclear or mhy about the fact that homosexual acts are herently gravely sful, ” Howell said. Our lay-led mistry embrac dividuals who are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, qutng/queer, tersex, asexual and their fai and iends.
And all n safely live, ” he sang, alongsi dozens of parishners gathered to celebrate Christ’s love durg Pri, who went to Catholic school, who studied Carmele theology, who belonged to nservative polil groups and who knew for a good part of his 30 years that he was gay, had spent years searchg for his place the world and a church that didn’t seem to want him. '”But unr the learship of Pope Francis, who last year publicly rejected judgment of gay people, Chee sensed an openg. ”“A up occurred virtually overnight, wh no guns fired, no bombs dropped, no blogil warfare unleashed, even wh the most nservative and polil and ary circl, ” Doug Mawarg, who once lived openly as a gay man and champned same-sex relatnships, said to a speaker aimed at the atten, who were protected by a police patrol.
WHY THREE GAY CATHOLICS LEFT THE CHURCH – AND WHY THEY RETURNED
”The church’s relatnship wh the LGBTQ muny is plex, but Pope Francis at a news nference last year said that gay people “should not be margalized bee of this, but that they mt be tegrated to society. In Geetown, he fally found a place to be Catholic and gay after the Jus “cid that the LGBTQIA muni were very margalized, that our spirual needs weren’t beg met, and that they were gog to make a special effort on this. The enti — and hundreds more — regnize that beg gay, lbian, bisexual, trans, queer, qutng, tersex or asexual is normal, borg backlash is fueled by folks who had ltle to say about Pri a year ago, but are now reactg to grievanc and fears beg broadst by nservativ, by an unprecented raft of anti-LGBTQ legislatn sweepg stateho.
THE DC CATHOLIC GAY MAFIA
”“It’s ridiculo, ” said a gay man who traveled about five hours to walk up those steps of Holy Try, to s a pew and to — fally — ’s his 30s, liv a nservative town Pennsylvania, works at very nservative anizatn and is only out to his fay.
Supreme Court cisn favor of a web signer who did not want to work for gay upl bolsters s fight the U. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circu Richmond is an early tt of how that major Supreme Court cisn ptg ee speech agast anti-discrimatn laws will play out beyond the hypothetil suatn that se, which volved a platiff who had never actually ma weddg webs or been asked to do so by a gay person.
“The Court rejected the dissent’s assertn that s cisn opened the door to discrimatn employment, ” ACLU attorney Josh Block wrote a reply to Becket’s the exampl raised the Supreme Court did not clu a relig anizatn or a gay employee, and Gorsuch repeatedly voked a 2000 cisn allowg the Boy Suts to expel a gay volunteer on “exprsive associatn” grounds. “We all said that thoands of relig anizatns all across the untry ask their employe to uphold their tradnal view of marriage word and ed, and if you terpret the statute that way, ’s gog to unleash lots of lawsus agast them, ” Goodrich the Supreme Court has specifilly said preventg racial discrimatn is a pellg ernment tert that jtifi rtrictg First Amendment eedoms, he noted that the Supreme Court has rejected such a fdg on discrimatn agast gay or transgenr people.