McGreevey embraces Episcopal church (gay gov ousted for appointing lover as homeland czar)

Star-Ledger ^ | Tuesday, December 06, 2005 | JEFF DIAMANT AND MARK MUELLER

[Liz]

Lifelong Catholic lends support to group that promotes gay, lesbian issues

Former Gov. James E. McGreevey, who struggled to square his Catholic faith with his political positions even before he declared himself a "gay American" last year, has been regularly attending services in the Episcopal church.

A former altar boy educated in Catholic schools, McGreevey, 48, said at a Hackensack fundraiser last night that for the past several months, he's been splitting time between the Church of the Holy Comforter in Rahway and St. Batholemew's Church in Manhattan.

McGreevey, a Rahway resident, would not say whether his attendance at the two Episcopal churches signaled a break from the Roman Catholic Church, and he declined to answer additional questions posed by a reporter.

"I'm just here to support a good cause tonight," he said.

McGreevey was a "guest of honor" along with actor Matthew Broderick at the Bergen County event, held to raise cash for "Claiming the Blessing," a national group that promotes a greater acceptance of gays and lesbians in the Episcopal church.

About 20 people paid $500 apiece to attend the event, a wine and hors d'oeuvre affair held at a 28-room mansion owned by Matthew Piermatti, a lawyer active in the Episcopal Diocese of Newark. Broderick's sister, the Rev. Janet Broderick, is rector of Grace Church Van Vorst in Jersey City.

McGreevey was invited to the fundraiser by Louie Crew, a prominent figure in the Episcopal church and the founder of Integrity, an Episcopal gay and lesbian group.

[wideawake]

Wasn't a knee-capping - he broke his thighbone (?!?).

Certainly not the usual mob calling card - whacking someone close to him like Cipel would be much more up their alley.

[Cicero]

I grew up in the Episcopal Church before I became a Catholic many years ago. Actually, what has happened is very sad. I got a great deal from my experiences as an Episcopalian, from the services and from neighbors in the pew when I was a boy, before things really went sour at the top.

[wideawake]

No one claimed it was during a routine act of sodomy. It occurred during the course of an illicit sexual encounter and there are various theories.

Pretty much every theory agrees that a rentboy was involved.

[Oratam]

It was one of McGreevey’s dozens of other roughboys.

Does that make McGreevey a "power bottom"?

[A.A. Cunningham]

latae sententiae

[stocksthatgoup]

There is a place of Gay and Lesbian Catholics.

[Solamente]

[jmaroneps37]

What a perfect fit! They deserve each other.

[SmoothTalker]

As someone who grew up Episcopal, it hurts me to see the church become a haven for those who don't live Christian lifestyles.

[OrangeBlossomSpecial]

So you say that McGreevey met his boylover 2 weeks after he proposed marriage to his wife? He truly is a disgusting sodomite.

He used his wife & child as cover to hide his gay life with hookers and get his miserable leftist self elected Govenor.

[ex-snook]

"with his political positions "

also his other 'positions' did not meet with Catholic approval. Well our gain, their loss.

[gridlock]

I am not going to read a single reply to this thread, because I would just have to lose my temper.

Jim McGreevey has been attending my church and has been welcomed.

If anybody here has a problem with that, perhaps they should re-examine their own hearts.

[AnAmericanMother]

Don't have a problem with it.

You want him, you're welcome to him.

Actually, it's better for all concerned, especially McGreevey, because he was living a lie pretending to be a Catholic while violating numerous tenets of the Church (and thus receiving the Eucharist while in a state of mortal sin, something that St. Paul had a few words to say about.)

[frogjerk]

I learned about all this from Father Corapi. If you publicly take a position against what the Church teaches or believes as a body, or even if you take it privately, it's called apostasy, and you are an apostate. If you are an apostate, it is not necessary for the church to excommunicate you. You have ipso facto done it to yourself. Therefore it is called ipso facto excommunication, meaning "by that very fact" excommunicated.

Fr. Corapi is excellent! And you are correct.

[Clemenza]

McGreevey, a Rahway resident, would not say whether his attendance at the two Episcopal churches signaled a break from the Roman Catholic Church, and he declined to answer additional questions posed by a reporter.

Why Rahway? I figured ManGravey would prefer certain parts of Asbury Park or would move across the Hudson to Chelsea or Fire Island Pines.

[Clemenza]

Par for the course in Sopranostan.

That being said, MacGreevey's hot Portuguese ex-wife needs some comforting from a certain Freeper. Anyone know of her whereabouts?

[wideawake]

She is indeed a very attractive woman and she is apparently living in a nice house in Union county and commuting to a cushy political consulting job in the Ironbound.

She is supposed to be very much back on the dating scene.

[Unam Sanctam]

At least he is being honest that he doesn't believe Catholic teching and embraces the gay activist ECUSA. Would that more dissenters would be so honest rather than trying to undermine the Catholic faith from within.

[PAR35]

Well, I see that St. Barts has an active lesbian and gay fellowship, but I couldn't find a website for the Church of the Holy Comforter in Rahway. One directory listing did show it as having a priestess.

[hilaryrhymeswithrich]

There is a reason that I refer to them as Catholic Lite...or Catholics who can't follow the rules