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You can FReep Mail Matt C. Abbott here last time posted was in 2005; you'd be better off e mailing him.

Sharon Bourassa's e-mail address is WinandSharon@aol.com.

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Matt C. Abbott is a Catholic columnist. He can be reached at mattcabbott@gmail.com

Personally, I am disinclined to make contact with Ms. Bourassa.

Her assertions, lacking any supporting evidence, seem difficult to believe. She is an attorney of long experience, I doubt that I would have any advice to give on gathering evidence that she would not already know.

Apparently Mr. Brady met with an interested group of individuals and, among other matters, gave them his advice in March, 2006 about gathering evidence.

As I was blundering around on the web, I did not find a great deal of variety in the hits related to her. I did see that Mr. Abbott posted her statement when the Dowgiert case was dismissed. (The Co-Counsel for The Plaintiff reference) The case was filed in May, 2005 and dismissed in August, 2005. She was disappointed that the lower court took that action but it was not entirely unexpected. She said they were considering an appeal. I'm sure if a request for review by the appelate court had been filed there would be multiple hits on it by now.

On a completely different note, I meant to comment earlier that I found the phrasing and logic of this sentence to be very odd: "One priest told us if the non-celibate gays were removed, we would have only ten Catholic churches in union with Rome."

I would expect a Catholic to use the word parishes, not churches. And then there's the thought that's expressed: remove all the gay guys in one swell foop and the laity tells the Church to take a leap? That doesn't sound right. Or perhaps the person speaking considers the priests to be the churches? That doesn't seem very Catholic.

It's an odd sentence.