Dallas Priest - Steps Down: Death Threats

KTVT - CBS 11 | 6-30-02

[beacon]

Local Priest at St. Pius X - steps down - saying he got death threats - because of what he said on a Gay-web site.

CBS 11 KTVT (Channel 11) - promo - says they will have story at 10:00. (in 25-minutes.)

[dead]

You know what I think?

I think incomplete posts are

[attagirl]

Haha! your screen-name fits right in!

[Senator Pardek]

And I think the Mets are getting spanked.

I'm kidding! I'm kidding!

[sinkspur]

Fr. Cliff Garner.

If he's getting death threats, then he should leave, for his own safety.

Those issuing the death threats are sicker than he is.

[Senator Pardek]

Har - and I hope yours does not.

[dead]

Geez, if the Yankees can't do better than split the season series with a .500 team, they aren't going to get very far. 8-)

[FreeReign]

Geez, if the Yankees can't do better than split the season series with a .500 team, they aren't going to get very far. 8-)

Hmmmm...the Yanks are about 25 games over .500. Care to doa full analysis Dead? ;|

[Atomic Vomit]

Good one, Senator!

Thank Heavens mr. atta, whose mouth presently swarms with scorpions and fire ants, had no children.

Mr. Atomic Vomit

[SamAdams76]

And if the Red Sox can't beat anybody from the National League, no wonder they haven't won a World Series since 1918!

[Xcoastie]

Stepping down amid death threats seems to parallel giving terrorists their own state for being good suicide bombers.

I hope there is more to the story than gaysbashing.

[polemikos]

Posted here with detailed commentary.

[Orual]

Here's the link to the story.

Click on "Priest Leaves Church Because of Threats."

[Illbay]

Oops, should read: "If the Red Sox took only ONE GAME from a National League team, they should be good enough to win the pennant."

Girly-men and the Designated-Hitter rule go hand and glove...

[afraidfortherepublic]

Last week, the Reverend Clifford Garner apologized to parishioners for posting a sexually suggestive message on an Internet site for gay priests. Garner was an assistant pastor at St. Pius X Catholic Church. Monsignor Lawrence Pichard says the pastors was threatened twice last week and police were notified. Thirty-six-year-old Garner couldn't be reached last night for comment. Church officials said that he was staying at an undisclosed location for his own safety. Pichard wouldn't comment on Garner's future with the church.

What was he doing posting suggestive messages on a gay web site? I thought we were in an era of zero tolerance.

[sinkspur]

What was he doing posting suggestive messages on a gay web site? I thought we were in an era of zero tolerance.

The "zero tolerance" policy which results in a priest dismissed from ministry applies to sexual abuse of minors.