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LGBT group protests firing of gay music minister at Germantown church
WTOP Washington ^ | 1/10/16 | Kathy Stewart

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].”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: freakstate; gaykkk; germantown; homosexualagenda; libertarians; maryland; medicalmarijuana; mothersetonchurch
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To: ReaganGeneration2

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.


21 posted on 01/11/2016 4:34:58 AM PST by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: DoodleDawg

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.


22 posted on 01/11/2016 4:40:44 AM PST by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: RginTN
there goes the notion that gays just want to be left alone and not impose their life on Christians...
23 posted on 01/11/2016 4:46:15 AM PST by verga (I might as well be playing chess with pigeons.)
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To: RginTN
there goes the notion that gays just want to be left alone and not impose their life on Christians...

It used to "the love that dare not speak it's name" Now it is the love that won't shut the hell up.

24 posted on 01/11/2016 5:13:45 AM PST by verga (I might as well be playing chess with pigeons.)
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To: 5150 FREEPER

“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.


25 posted on 01/11/2016 5:17:57 AM PST by Slambat
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

“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.


26 posted on 01/11/2016 5:44:01 AM PST by Aleya2Fairlie
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
RE:”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?”

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.

27 posted on 01/11/2016 5:55:57 AM PST by sickoflibs (Donald Trump : 'It will be wonderful. It will be glorious., You will be amazed, Just wait"')
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To: IrishBrigade

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).


28 posted on 01/11/2016 5:57:11 AM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Fred Hayek

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...


29 posted on 01/11/2016 9:37:05 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: 5150 FREEPER
If you work for a Catholic church, you shouldn't be living opposite of the tenets of the Catholic Church.
30 posted on 01/11/2016 9:42:57 AM PST by Darren McCarty (Cruz in 2016 - No Trump. No Jeb.)
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To: 5150 FREEPER; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


31 posted on 01/12/2016 9:11:44 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Terrorism, the thing that shall not be named by the MSM)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

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?

&&&
Oh, c’mon, the First Amendment is so last century!


32 posted on 01/13/2016 6:10:16 AM PST by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: Darksheare

+1


33 posted on 01/13/2016 6:10:53 AM PST by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: 5150 FREEPER
Higgins says he was terminated on Nov. 8, 2015 for a simple reason: "Because I'm gay and married to my husband, Robert [Higgins]."

And I believe the church said as much. Your point is?

34 posted on 01/13/2016 6:13:24 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: mrsmel

I would like to see that kind of preaching, as well.


35 posted on 01/13/2016 6:14:20 AM PST by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: Slambat

Well said.


36 posted on 01/13/2016 6:15:42 AM PST by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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