Posted on 06/07/2017 7:36:50 PM PDT by grimalkin
Weeks after a federal judge ruled against a gay man who'd sued over his firing from a suburban Catholic parish, Colin Collette said he still struggles with a "sense of abandonment by the church."
Collette, the music director at Holy Family Catholic Community in Inverness, was with the parish for 17 years before he was let go in 2014 after announcing he was engaged to his same-sex partner. He filed a lawsuit against the church and the Archdiocese of Chicago last year, alleging discrimination and seeking reinstatement of his job, lost wages and damages.
Collette said Wednesday that the decision "flies in such contradiction to the wonderful things that are coming out of Rome. The pope is speaking about unity and love, and here we are creating a church of fear and division."
But U.S. District Judge Charles Kocoras indicated in his ruling that the law gives churches more leeway than other employers to hire and fire who they want.
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You are wrong about “he should have just joined the priesthood.” [is it OK to just say, ‘maybe he should have become a teacher?’]
The vetting of seminarian candidates is tougher than ever - especially since the scandals, mostly of a homosexual nature which mostly occurred 20-40 years ago, have seen daylight in the past 20 years. Of course this is not being reported by the media because they are sympathetic to gays - unless they are priests!!!!!!!! So the media continues to report the problem as pedophilia when it is primarily homosexual.
Also - has the American Psychiatric Association taken any criticism or law suits over it’s erroneous advice to the bishops which was that the problem could be resolved with counseling and enrollment in their programs?? After the bishops spent literally millions of dollars to the APA with no success, they are still the targets of money-hungry lawyers and new, late, questionable claims by men whose so-called offenders have been in their graves for 20-30 years.
This type of case would be most noticeable in different treatment of Muslims and others if the courts supported this freak. If Muslims can do something, we all can - and they would NEVER keep this guy on (or bake a wedding cake for queers “playing family”)...
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