Tag Archives: Catholic Church

The elderly pedophile-protector in fabulous drag really has nothing. We are not anti anybody; we are pro-marriage. The definition of marriage is a given: it is a lifelong union of love and fidelity leading, please God, to children, between one man and one woman. History, Natural Law, the Bible (if you’re so inclined), the religions of the world, human experience, …

“The Presbyterian Church now joins the United Church of Christ, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America and the Episcopal Church in allowing practicing homosexuals and lesbians to become members of the clergy. It also has something else in common with these mainline Protestant denominations: it is collapsing. In the case of the Presbyterian Church, it has lost more than half …

Over the last seven days… South Carolina: Pastor Charles Ledford arrested for embezzling over $250K from his church.Louisiana: Pastor Elijah Mealancon busted for stealing $100K from an elderly parishioner.New Brunswick: Father Charles Jean Picot found guilty of child molestation.Georgia: Pastor Kenneth Terrell pleads guilty to embezzling $200K from his church. Terrell has been arrested 27 times in the past.Missouri: Father …

Catholic Charities of Peoria, Illinois says that it will continue to deny its adoption services to gay people despite the recent failure of a bill that would have exempted them from anti-discrimination laws. Civil unions go into effect in Illinois on June 1st. “The Catholic Church is not going to be OK with Catholic Charities processing applications from anyone in …

In 2006 the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a resolution denouncing the Vatican as an “insulting and ignorant” foreign country “hatefully” meddling in the right of gay Americans to adopt children. That didn’t go over so well with the local Catholic Church, who sued the city for violating the separation of church and state. Oh, the irony. Last year …

Minnesota’s Catholic bishops have issued a joint statement in support of the pending constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, which may go on the ballot this November. An excerpt: “Our own State’s constant recognition of marriage is based on the evident fact that only the sexual union of a man and a woman has the natural capability to bring forth new …

Following the collapse of Rhode Island’s same-sex marriage bill, a civil unions bill is now being floated as a “compromise.” And of course, the Catholic Church is early out of the gate with their denouncement. We hope that those members of the Rhode Island General Assembly who have consistently supported traditional marriage will stay steadfast in their opposition to the …

Beyond creepy.

A British appeals tribunal has rejected the demand of the Catholic Church that they be exempted from laws banning discrimination against gay adoptive parents. As we’ve seen happen in several U.S. cities, church adoption officials say they’d rather close their doors and let children go without families than abide by the law. Leeds-based Catholic Care have said they will have …

Catholic League blowhard Bill Donahue takes a moment off from defending pedophiles to attack Lady Gaga over her new single, Judas, in the video for which she plays Mary Magdalene. The clip will be released (ta-DAH) on Easter Sunday.

Queer Rising will protest the Catholic Church at this weekend’s NYC Easter Parade, which as evidenced by the above photo typically draws a fair amount of gay men, drag queens, and fashionistas. Queer Rising cites a recent anti-gay marriage lobbying trip to Albany by Archbishop Timothy Dolan as prompting the protest. Via press release: “It is good to see members …

Illinois Republicans have quietly added an anti-gay adoption amendment into a bill to assist the blind. Windy City Times reports: An amendment to a proposed bill in the Illinois Senate states that “a child welfare agency that is religiously based or owned by, operated by, or affiliated with a bona fide religious organization may decline an adoption or foster family …

The Catholic League today published a full-page ad in the New York Times in which blowhard Bill Donohue blames the church’s pedophilia scandals on homosexuality. An excerpt: The refrain that child rape is a reality in the Church is twice wrong: let’s get it straight—they weren’t children and they weren’t raped. We know from the John Jay study that most …

Over the last seven days… Texas: Pastor Julio Perez charged with murder for hiring a hit man to shoot his wife.Mississippi: Pastor Eddie Prince charged with downloading child porn on a public library computer.Washington DC: Whistleblower lawsuit filed against Catholic Charities for charging the poor for flu shots meant to be free under a government-funded program.New York: Father Francis McCloskey …

“In the face of unfriendly media coverage and heavy political pressure, opponents of the legislation did the right thing. They challenged and tabled the bill, killing it for this session. That sounds like a small act, but it took courage, especially in an environment of bitter criticism. The committee members who opposed the bill deserve our gratitude and support. The …

Connecticut lawmakers says they are shocked by the Catholic Church’s opposition to a proposed lifting of the statute of limitations on lawsuits for the sexual abuse of minors. “I’m just so surprised they are opposing this. We certainly had the sense last year that they would not,” Sen. Beth Bye, D-West Hartford, said of the bill she proposed that eliminates …

The leader of NOM’s Rhode Island chapter appeared on CBN yesterday to praise Catholic and Hispanic churches for “standing up against gay marriage.” According to this NOM spokesbigot, marriage equality has a shot of passage in the state House, but petitions from anti-gay churches may have convinced the Senate not to move forward.

New Hampshire House GOP leader D.J. Bettencourt is under fire for calling Bishop John McCormack a “pedophile pimp” after the cleric demonstrated against proposed budget cuts for social services. Before being named bishop of Manchester in 1998, McCormack served as a top aide to Cardinal Bernard Law in Boston, where the Catholic sex abuse scandal began and where he was …

In January the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) proposed sweeping new rules adding LGBT people as a protected class in all of its programs. That doesn’t sit well with the Catholic Conference of Bigoted Bishops, who have sent HUD a letter strongly opposing the change. “By this, we do not mean that any person should be denied housing. …

Last night MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell ripped on Archbishop Timothy Dolan and Glenn Beck for their dumbassery in the face of the latest poll showing that the majority of America’s lay Catholics do support LGBT rights and same-sex marriage.