Posted on 01/10/2016 11:46:38 PM PST by 5150 FREEPER
GERMANTOWN, Md. — On Sunday, a group representing LGBT Catholics protested the firing of a music minister at Mother Seton Catholic Church in Germantown. They claim the dismissal was discriminatory because he is gay and married to a man.
As the morning mass proceeded inside the church, a handful of protesters were outside in a show of support for Jeffery Higgins, a cantor who worked at the parish. A cantor leads public worship within a liturgy through music.
Higgins says he was terminated on Nov. 8, 2015 for a simple reason: “Because I’m gay and married to my husband, Robert [Higgins].â€
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If he really wants a church which is more accepting of his sin, why would he choose one which for centuries has at least in its tenets and officially opposed the sin of homosexuality, based on Biblical authority, just as it stands on Biblical authority to oppose other sins?
These sodomites don’t want to make traditional churches “more accepting” of their sin, they just want to destroy Biblical Christian churches. They don’t choose “churches” which have already openly accepted sodomites, that’s not what they want. They want to destroy the few still standing on the Bible in opposition to the culture.
The process of marginalising then outlawing Biblical Christianity is progressing much faster than I ever dreamed it could, and no other tool could have served the purpose so well as that of the sodomites.
That’s how churches which purported to be Biblical have gotten themselves into this mess, by turning a blind eye to other sins, until now we have a militant group who won’t accept their sin being called sin, but making a civil rights issue of their sin, so that it makes the perfect tool against churches. It works best against lukewarm churches, because churches which have stood staunchly on Biblical principle all along have a stronger position from which to oppose this one, when it comes to the people they have representing the church in any way, in any position.
It used to "the love that dare not speak it's name" Now it is the love that won't shut the hell up.
“LGBT Catholics protested the firing of a music minister”
LGBT Catholics? Now that’s an oxymoron right up there with
mexican craftsman.
Great, another intolerable, interminable (WOTD?) minority group with
the added bonus of being perverts.
“Whatever happened to freedom of association? If a church cannot define its own beliefs and be represented by employees who share those beliefs, then what is freedom of religion, speech, and association?”
We’re witnessing the death of all the things you mentioned in the last bastion of them. They no longer exist in America except in the confines of one’s own home and in the churches. That’s about to change as well.
Churches are exempted from the Maryland state law forbidding discrimination of employees based on ‘sexual orientation’, whatever that is.
These protesters are looking to pressure the church into changing their policy based on public opinion, and then opinion of church members.
And get rid of that lame garbage from Marty Haugen and Dan Schutte. I have made it known to my parents that I do not want to hear any of that crap at their funeral. If there is to be any non Catholic material, go back to Isaac Watts. MH and DS are not RC’s, they are United Church of Christ (dead liberal).
I have made it known to my parents that I do not want to hear any of that crap at their funeral.
Many people think that their Catholic funeral would sound just wonderful accompanied by the wafting strains of ‘On Eagle’s Wings’...
A more barf inducing melody I cannot imagine, but the local Novus Ordo church, presided over by ‘Father Dave’ would have it no other way...
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
If a church cannot define its own beliefs and be represented by employees who share those beliefs, then what is freedom of religion, speech, and association?
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Oh, c’mon, the First Amendment is so last century!
+1
And I believe the church said as much. Your point is?Â
I would like to see that kind of preaching, as well.
Well said.
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