A Matter of Common Sense - Gay Pride Parade Features Catholic Parish/Priest

San Francisco Faith ^ | September 2003 | Phil Sevilla

[I_Love_My_Husband]

A Matter of Common Sense

Gay Pride Parade Features Catholic Parish/Priest

By Phil Sevilla

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For the past 33 years, "gay" pride parades have distinguished San Francisco as the epicenter of the homosexual movement in America. On June 29, I was present to videotape and document with a small group of Catholic and pro-family journalists the parade and events at the Civic Center rotunda. I witnessed frontal nudity, lewd conduct, simulated acts of sodomy, and even profane slogans and caricatures mocking the pope and bishops. I filmed at least one Catholic priest, Father Edward Phelan, and members of his parish in the parade, advertising their affiliation with Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church (San Francisco.) A 15-year-old student at Mercy Catholic High School in Burlingame, Marina Gatto, daughter of a lesbian couple, trumpeted her pride in participating in the parade as a grand marshal.

The sisters of perpetual indulgence drove by on a float with the sign, " Weapons of Ass Destruction," with characters dressed as the pope and a cardinal. The character dressed up as the pope was enclosed in a cage. Beside them was a missile named "Cheney" (for Vice-President Cheney) made up as a phallic symbol with a character with a Bush mask riding the missile. One transvestite paraded a sign that said, "Sodomize me. It's legal." Another sign read, "I had sodomy for lunch!" It was curious to see representatives of the Church marching between leather-bound, bare-bottomed advocates of sodomy, sex toy shops (good vibes.com), and black-winged, bare-chested devils in leathers, dancing on a float decorated with hell fire.

I contacted the archdiocese of San Francisco to inquire about the participation of a Catholic parish and pastor in his clerics in a gay pride parade. Although no one returned my call, I corresponded by e-mail with the director of communications, Maurice Healy to ask if the Catholic Church in San Francisco was giving, at least, tacit approval to the San Francisco Gay pride parade by allowing Father Phelan to participate in it.

Mr. Healy responded on July 2 saying the archbishop was out of town but that my message would be forwarded to him when he returned. In part he wrote: "As a matter of common sense, I think it would be wrong for you to assume that all marchers agree with or approve of the raunchy examples you cite." In response, I wrote that the spectacle in San Francisco was not only raunchy but pornographic and the parade conveyed a serious, political message with hundreds of identical signs proclaiming, "Support AB205 Domestic Partner Rights" (a reference to the "gay" marriage bill winding its way through Sacramento) and "We All Deserve Freedom to Marry." These signs were placed all along the parade route.

I asked Healy, "can there be any justification for a Catholic priest and his parish to participate in a blatantly pornographic public display? Would German Catholic bishops and priests have marched with the National Socialists and saluted Hitler in 1939, or Lot and his family cavort with the perverted and decadent people of Sodom?" I received no response.

[GOPJ]

Double Standard Alert

How would the liberal press react if this had been done against a Jewish religious icon by a right wing group?

When a left wing group does wrong, it's just fun. If a right wing group does wrong, the press screams like a stuck pig.

The sisters of perpetual indulgence drove by on a float with the sign, " Weapons of Ass Destruction," with characters dressed as the pope and a cardinal. The character dressed up as the pope was enclosed in a cage.

[Coleus]

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[Jim Noble]

How do we write to the Vatican to tell them what is going on?

One of the most poignant (repeating) scenes in The GULAG Archipelago is the way, after some terrible abuse, a poor zek would sigh and say, "If only Stalin knew...."

How do you tell the Vatican?

They know.

[aspiring.hillbilly]

Sodam and Gammorahh west,,,pure homocrap filth and not surprising a priest wallows in it in pubic....

[Conservative til I die]

Do you call that an overreaction? I would not associate with any denomination that does not follow the Bible.

Sounds to me like you have bigger issues and you're just using this one diocese as an excuse to grind the ax.

Gee, how did I know.

You may now commence dumping megabytes of Jack Chick and Dave Hunt quotes on the forum.

[Conservative til I die]

Fr. Judge has been dead for two years.

[Clemenza]

Fr. Judge has been dead for two years.

Father Judge died in the WTC disaster. I was thinking of another priest who was friends with Rudy since High School and was recently accused of "improprieties."

[Clemenza]

I was thinking of this guy:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.priest02feb02,0,5422475.story?coll=chi-news-hed

[txzman]

"I asked Healy, "can there be any justification for a Catholic priest and his parish to participate in a blatantly pornographic public display? "

Sure, if the Bible means nothing to you.

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[RightOnline]

That "thing" isn't even human.......and it wants "rights"???

[SuziQ]

I would say it is clearly time to get out of the Catholic church.

Why should WE leave? We're not the ones doing wrong?! Believe me, most of those supporting this kind of behavior are getting old and gray and are dying out. We just have to work on putting folks in their place who can teach the new generation the RIGHT things. The Pope is working on that right now with the new crop of Bishops that are being appointed. It will take a while to clear out the Chanceries of the 60's leftovers, but I have Faith that it will get done.

[Cicero]

Good. I didn't catch the irony, since the rest of the statement was straightforward, and I'm glad to learn it was there.

[fatima]

Bump,when you get this freepmail me-

[Salvation]

Thank you, I just didn't want to go that deep this morning!

[Delphinium]

I have never heard of Jack Chick and Dave Hunt? What quotes are you talking about?

Yes, I might have a bigger issue. Its not just the Catholic church, but many others. I have never been associated with the Catholic church. For years I have known of homosexual, and child molesting nuns, and priests.It bugs me that they get to remain priests, and nuns while practicing what the Bible clearly calls sin. I would not be associated with any Bible professing church that allows this sinful behavior in the leadership.

I love Catholics and especially appreciate the pro-life stand in the church.

you're just using this one diocese as an excuse to grind the ax.

What are you talking about? Isn't this happening all over the country? I do watch the news, and read articles regularly on FR.

[Antoninus]

You will never, not in your lifetime or my lifetime get a governor in Californica that refuses to bless homosexuality. Fact.

All it would take is one serious candidate to have the cojones to take a strong public stand against the homos and he or she would be in like flint. And further more, that candidate would get a majority of the Hispanic and Black vote. Fact.

[Happy2BMe]

Nope. The society has degraded too far - it won't bear an antihomosexual government.

Fact.

[Antoninus]

They know.

So you're equating the Pope to Stalin, eh? Your statement is scurrilous, ill-informed, and beneath contempt.

[Delphinium]

Why should WE leave?

By staying aren't you tolerating behavior that is wrong? This has gone on for years. And why didn't the Pope take a clear stand against this behavior, and the men doing it?

I am not a Catholic, and I don't mean to be hurtful to you that are. I wasn't aware that you had any power to work towards getting these perverts thrown out, or new men in. What has the Pope done so far to rid the church of this scourge? Maybe as a non-Catholic I only see the news, and miss something that only Catholics know? Please set me straight.

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