Posted on 11/07/2005 10:58:31 AM PST by Antioch
Minnesota churches will soon see a sign of protest in collection plates. Gay Catholics and their supporters plan to mark their donations to send a message to let the church know who exactly is giving them their money. Cash donations will be marked with a pink triangle around the pyramid on the back, while checks will have a notation in the memo field.
If you want our money, then support us, says parishioner Tom Degree. They need to know how much they are receiving from GLBT congregants.
Degree and others are concerned about several positions the Catholic church has taken recently, such as banning gay priests. I think thats a bright idea, says Rachel Dykosky. I think they should let them know where the money is coming from. The church needs to know who is supporting them.
Others think the protest is too political, and doesnt belong in church. Its incomprehensible to me that they would do that. I dont see any logic in it, says Florence Pope.
Degree thinks the search for marked money will be similar to the churchs search for gay members in seminaries.
This is gay money, degree says. If you dont feel comfortable taking it, throw it away.
I was being sarcastic - what they are asking for are essentially indulgences for homoseuxal behavior, linked to the dollars they give. Is this not a correct historical reference?
They are going to have to do alot better than a buck. Cheapo homosexuals.
They have found out that the support of business is for sale. The Dallas Morning News just came out opposed to the state constitutional amendment for normal marriage. I guessed what it would happen from the tenor of their coverage, and because a month ago a whole magazine of "gay" advertisements came out.
That's because so many Gay Catholics are up there at the pulpit.
I suppose its easier than printing up three-dollar bills.
From sodomy to simony in one easy step.
Its the same attitude with rainbow sashers and Dignity USA. Remember the Rainbow sashers in the Archdioceses of St. Paul-Minneapolis? Victoria Welle received Communion although she was wearing a rainbow-colored ribbon. She began breaking up the host and distributed the pieces to sash wearers around her. "I'm a eucharistic minister, and I felt it was appropriate to offer the body of Christ" to others, she said.
In Chicago, Dominican "Sister" Donna Quinn, director of the National Coalition of American Nuns, and Rick Garcia, director of an Illinois gay rights organization, said that they and Joseph and Barbara Parot of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays shared their Communion hosts with sash wearers. What on earth is the point of these activities??? The communion isn't valid, in fact the recepients of the stolen hosts are only digging themselves deeper into condemnation.
What are you referring to?
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