Posted on 05/28/2009 6:47:11 PM PDT by markomalley
A self-proclaimed Catholic priestess from Anaheim was removed from a press holding area at Los Angeles International Airport Thursday morning minutes before President Barack Obama was scheduled to arrive.
Brenda Lee, 58, of Anaheim, was carried off by airport security after she refused to leave the area, saying that she wanted to hand the president a letter denouncing the California Supreme Court for deciding Tuesday not to annul gay marriages in the state.
Lee was dressed in a cassock.
In a phone interview, Lee said that she is a Catholic priestess "with St. Juliana's in Fullerton," and that there are 60 other Catholic priestesses worldwide.
Father Paul Gins of St. Juliana's said that Lee is a member of the parish and a "well-meaning person," but that "she does not represent the church. We do not recognize women priests, and haven't for 2,000 years."
Lee said that her duties as a minister involve consecrating the host, and ministering to the disabled and elderly in convalescent homes.
She called the White House to request credentials for Obama's arrival, citing her involvement with the Georgia Informer, an independent black newspaper in Macon, Georgia.
At LAX this morning, Lee asked a Secret Service agent to take her letter to President Obama after learning that the president wasn't scheduled to take any questions at the appearance.
The staffer came and asked to see the letter. "He said his name was Worly but I doubt that was his real name," Lee said.
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I’m not Catholic but I know better.
But seriously, if she was bent on hurting the Messiah, the SS did the right thing. I couldn’t live in this world if he were ever assassinated while serving. JFK/Camelot times a thousand. In thirty years of lies and legend they will have our Great Grandchildren believing he created the universe.
...”Love letters straight from your heart”?
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