Posted on 04/05/2007 12:47:47 PM PDT by SmithL
Gillette, Wyo. (AP) -- Leah Vader and Lynne Huskinson, a lesbian couple who got married in Canada last August, sent a letter recently to their state legislator decrying a Wyoming bill that would deny recognition of same-sex marriages. The lawmaker read the letter on the floor of the Legislature.
Soon after, the local paper interviewed the couple on Ash Wednesday and ran a story and pictures of them with ash on their foreheads, a mark of their Roman Catholic faith.
It wasn't long after that that the couple received a notice from their parish church telling them they have been barred from receiving Communion.
"If all this stuff hadn't hit the newspaper, it wouldn't have been any different than before — nobody would have known about it," said the couple's parish priest at St. Matthew's, the Rev. Cliff Jacobson. "The sin is one thing. It's a very different thing to go public with that sin."
Catholics deemed sinners in the eyes of the church are sometimes taken aside and privately advised not to take Communion. But Cheyenne Bishop David Ricken, gay Catholic organizations and a national church spokeswoman said they could not recall any previous instance of a U.S. bishop denying the sacrament to a gay couple in writing.
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Is Leah related to Darth?...
God bless Bishop David Ricken
Daughter
Daughter of Darth and the Princess Lia
So this priest didn't care that they were sinning and receiving the Eucharist until it was made public, and made his church look bad?
I think that’s supposed to be Lynn Muskratson...?
Good - thank God for some sanity left in this twisted country.
Didn't you catch the story about how the RCs are having to advertise "go to confession" since so many RCs are simply avoiding it?
With a shortage of priests (due to the no marriage clause), a growing body of congregants (due to a vast influx of Hispanics), and a variety of other demographic changes, they're probably ready to take up the Protestant "group confession" in this country.
Then no one will know anything about anybody!
EEEWWWW. That would be father/daughter stuff.
Yuppers...Leah 8 her and Lynne just took it all in... gotta go wash my hands after typin that...
Good.
“So this priest didn’t care that they were sinning and receiving the Eucharist until it was made public, and made his church look bad?”
There is a distinction made with those that create public scandal with their unrepentant sin.
There is also a great tendency for priests to avoid confrontation unless they are bonked over the head.
Usually when a priest learns of a state of grave sin, he may take the person/persons aside in private to discuss the matter. Private reconciliation is always best.
These lesbians very publically thumbed their nose at Church teaching in an idiotic manner (with ashes on their heads!).
This forced the Church into action - no way to avoid it.
Thank you for the wonderful post. Blessed Holy Week to you.
OMG that so funny I thinking of Star Wars reset this what happen when off spring of Princess Leia and Chewy get marry
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