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Union-Tribune Editorial Intolerant bishop Denial of funeral contradicts human dignity UNION-TRIBUNE March 19, 2005 Whatever happened to the age-old Christian precept, "Hate the sin and love the sinner."? San Diego Bishop Robert Brom apparently rejects this maxim of charity and tolerance. His highly rare decision to deny a Catholic burial to a gay businessman who owned a gay-oriented nightclub sends a message that is the sheer antithesis of charity and tolerance. To the bishop, a Catholic funeral for John McCusker, who died Sunday of congestive heart failure, would be a "public scandal" because the business he owned, Club Montage, was...

Intolerant bishop Denial of funeral contradicts human dignity March 19, 2005 Whatever happened to the age-old Christian precept, "Hate the sin and love the sinner."? San Diego Bishop Robert Brom apparently rejects this maxim of charity and tolerance. His highly rare decision to deny a Catholic burial to a gay businessman who owned a gay-oriented nightclub sends a message that is the sheer antithesis of charity and tolerance. To the bishop, a Catholic funeral for John McCusker, who died Sunday of congestive heart failure, would be a "public scandal" because the business he owned, Club Montage, was "inconsistent with Catholic...