The ever gay hating, hypocritical Roman Catholic Church has demonstrated its true colors yet again. This time the bigotry was exposed in connection with a function involving an anniversary luncheon for El Centro Humanitario, a Denver, Colorado, group that advocates for Hispanics and day laborers. One would think the Church would happily accept supporters for such a worthy cause, but not so if - God forbid - those supporters are gay and lesbian. I truly cannot comprehend the obsession the Church has with gays - and gay sex- when there are so many much more pressing and important issues facing humanity. Here ate some highlights from the Denver Post:*
Jesus hung out with a crowd of day laborers. That's why the Catholic Church long has fed them, helped find them jobs and homes, and fought for their rights. But solidarity met its limits last week when the Archdiocese of Denver broke trust with a group of day labor advocates for accepting funding from gays and lesbians. The church can't bring itself to contain its homophobia, even for an hour, to lease a banquet room to El Centro Humanitario.
*Jesus hung out with a crowd of day laborers. That's why the Catholic Church long has fed them, helped find them jobs and homes, and fought for their rights. But solidarity met its limits last week when the Archdiocese of Denver broke trust with a group of day labor advocates for accepting funding from gays and lesbians. The church can't bring itself to contain its homophobia, even for an hour, to lease a banquet room to El Centro Humanitario.
El Centro is the pre-eminent group fighting for the rights of thousands of poor and vulnerable migrant workers in Denver whom the church claims to care about — and who happen overwhelmingly to be Catholic. The nonprofit group left a deposit and signed a contract with the archdiocese to rent space in its Hispanic ministry building for El Centro's hour-long anniversary luncheon this Friday. But the Church wigged out when realizing that benefactors include the Gay and Lesbian Fund for Colorado.
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The archdiocese singled out the Gay and Lesbian Fund among the luncheon's 10 sponsors, forbidding El Centro even from uttering the fund's name on church property. El Centro wouldn't be allowed to thank the fund for its $3,000 donation or hang a banner or pass out a program acknowledging its sponsorship, the church insisted.
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The more subtle implication seems to be that perfectly straight Catholics might become queer merely by eating burritos funded partially by lesbians, sitting in chairs gay men helped rent or wiping their mouths with napkins that God-knows-which-perverts pitched in for.
The fund's money is apparently too dirty, even if "the Catholic Church understands the need to reach out to and love homosexual persons," archdiocese spokeswoman Jeanette DeMelo argues. Whatever that means.
The fund's money is apparently too dirty, even if "the Catholic Church understands the need to reach out to and love homosexual persons," archdiocese spokeswoman Jeanette DeMelo argues. Whatever that means.
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The reality is that today's Church hierarchy is full of modern day Pharisees - and that includes the Nazi Pope, Benedict XVI - who obviously need to re-read the parable of the Good Samaritan. Once again, I feel so much morally clean now that I am no longer a Roman Catholic. The institutional Church becomes more reprehensible by the day.
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Ultimately, the Catholic Church would rather we not exist. It is a sort of social final solution: don't speak of them, acknowledge them, include them, or do anything but try to render them invisible. Only then will they reach out to individuals. St. Mychal Judge, pray for us.
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