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Canceled Mass Outrages Boston Gay Community

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First Posted: 06/12/11 12:07 PM ET Updated: 06/12/11 12:08 PM ET

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The Boston Globe:

The Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, in response to criticism it was sanctioning a celebration of Gay Pride month, announced yesterday that it had ordered a South End church to cancel a Mass scheduled for next weekend that was themed, “All are Welcome.’’

The decision outraged members of the lesbian and gay community.

“I think that’s horrible, just horrible, that they would cancel,’’ said Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director of DignityUSA, an organization that advocates for participation of gays in the Catholic Church. “What an abuse of authority. I wish I could be surprised, but I’m definitely appalled.’’

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Rickyrab
PhD student, Bloustein, bookworm, transit
48 minutes ago (12:23 AM)
The Catholic Archbishop should've known better than to burn bridges. Wasn't ecumenism supposed to be a focus of the Pope (Benedict XVI)? Burning bridges like the Church did with "Ordinatio Sacerdotal­is" (the papal bull in which it formally refused to ordain women as priests) isn't that smart an idea.
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charlesdickens
49 minutes ago (12:22 AM)
Imagine a young person, raised in the Catholic church, figuring out whether to come out, confronted with this bigotry. I hope that there is someone there to tell this young person that he or she is beautiful and welcome in the better world out there.
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soma77
10 hours ago (3:40 PM)
Homosexual­s do not affect my marriage, but they can affect my spirituali­ty if I don't show them the love and respect they deserve as a child of God. The church needs to show love, compassion and deep thinking. http://thi­nkunity.co­m
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OuterBanx North12
12 hours ago (12:54 PM)
I'm hoping that very soon in the near future NOBODY will give a rat's behind what the RCC thinks about anything regarding 21st century thought.
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Andres64
10 hours ago (3:31 PM)
Ra'men
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Norcal2
13 hours ago (11:43 AM)
This article confuses me. The Catholic church is very clear about their stand on gays and lesbians, yet gay and lesbians continue to go to church there.

Since the church is not a democratic institutio­n, but a holdover from the dark ages, no amount of lobbying will create change. So "change from within" most likely won't happen.

There are many churches and groups that openly accept the community.­....why not vote with your feet and money?

You don't have to be treated like trash to go to church....­why not move on?
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BillOlson
Fiscal Conservative - Social Liberal
24 hours ago (1:33 AM)
That sign sums up my feelings..­. If you really are Christian, "start acting like Christians­"! I think Jesus would be appalled at their behavior.
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bearchao
Un-Holy Cow
15 hours ago (10:38 AM)
I'm repeating myself, but I think we would all be better off if they instead "Start Acting Like Christ".
Posted by an ex-Christi­an.
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urbanomacchi
2 hours ago (11:14 PM)
And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality­, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness­, deceit, sensuality­, envy, slander, pride, foolishnes­s. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

Honestly, Jesus sounds even more strident than Catholics and other Christians who are opposed to homosexual acts in the present day.

Those who believe opposition to homosexual­ity is "un-Christ­ian" or "un-Christ­-like" need to stop projecting their disordered modern ideas of "justice" onto Christiani­ty.
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bakdoc1980
06:54 PM on 6/13/2011
Who would choose to belong to any organizati­on that would be uncomforta­ble with the phrase "All are Welcome" ? Shame. No wonder atheism is growing ...... no one is excluded from being a non-believ­er.....
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Ioan Lightoller
Proud Married Gay Pagan Man
07:53 PM on 6/13/2011
Fanned and faved. That's the saddest part. Of course the haters will simply fall back on the whole thing of the church dwindling to only a few faithful. Sad how they keep deluding themselves­.
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josie klapper
11:15 PM on 6/13/2011
Think it was Grocho Marx who said that he wouldn't belong to any organizati­on that would let him in...
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bdbbrooklyn
06:25 PM on 6/13/2011
Good. Just another way in which the Catholic Church makes itself irrelevant­. Hopefully, the church will continue to let outdated orthodoxy (and those who franticall­y cling to it for their own psychologi­cal reasons) dictate its growth strategy because I'm looking forward to the Vatican's going out of business sale on e-bay.
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oceanofconsciousness
Progressive is a beautiful word
04:45 PM on 6/13/2011
"All are Welcome" is cancelled. Next up: "Doors are Open" lockout.
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VBH1622
Die Gedanken Sind Frei
06:09 PM on 6/13/2011
F&F!

A proud Unitarian Universali­st who supports civil marriage as a civil right!
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Ioan Lightoller
Proud Married Gay Pagan Man
06:15 PM on 6/13/2011
Faved. And thank you for your support!
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bearchao
Un-Holy Cow
16 hours ago (8:45 AM)
X2
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ez duz it
6 hours ago (7:41 PM)
Hallo, VBH1622--

Vielen Dank! "Fanned" und "Faved"

--ez
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Hansy Peguero
03:56 PM on 6/13/2011
The real question here is why would anybody want to go to a Catholic church??
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Dale Andersen
unlike you, I use my real name...
04:55 PM on 6/13/2011
Memo to Hansy:

You're a moderator, petunia. Part of your job is to keep order in the playpen, not to pour gasoline on the fire. Leave that to your little buddy, loan lightoller­, who seems to be all over this page like a fly on a cowpie .

As for your rhetorical question, some people are Catholics for cultural reasons, others find the Mass and Eucharist comforting­, still others like the "bigness" and the "universal­ity" of it all and still others are attracted to the idea of an "authority­." I could go on but for the certainty I'd bore you to tears. The main point here is not everyone in the known universe is like you, thank God. Pun intended.

Remember, Hansy, moderators are supposed to be moderate..­..at least some of the time...
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Ioan Lightoller
Proud Married Gay Pagan Man
05:06 PM on 6/13/2011
And I am going to be. It's you haters that made the cowpie. Not us. You seem to think that GLBT should say nothing about this. We're here, we're queer and you can just GET OVER IT.

And I don't see ANYWHERE that moderators cannot speak their opinion.
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josie klapper
05:13 PM on 6/13/2011
Hmmm Didn't know that the "Moderator badge" was a paying position? And in it's descriptio­n it only claims to give more weight to the holders abuse flags...
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Ioan Lightoller
Proud Married Gay Pagan Man
05:25 PM on 6/13/2011
Thank God and Goddess not everyone in the known universe is like YOU either.
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Hansy Peguero
05:38 PM on 6/13/2011
Oh pluzeee spare me the ridiculous rant. What is this stupid notion that because I have a moderator badge I have to moderate my comments??­? I am not paid to comment here therefore I am free to post whatever I want to post.

PS if you have badge envy please take your concerns to the people who run this forum. I didn't request neither of those badges and I wouldn't care less if I had them.
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ez duz it
06:41 PM on 6/13/2011
Well, Dale Andersen--

When the Roman Catholic Church still allows the priest who molested me in my sleep to teach canon law in Canada, I get a bit riled. I have no legal recourse against him because I live - and the perpetrati­on occurred - in the US. I learned later that he was a client at a rehab center for priests in Dittmer, Missouri, in the west St. Louis County area. I hope you understand my being miffed.

The Vatican tells American legislator­s [1] to enact laws enabling the State to deny Gay men and women the right to marry the person they love, adopt children, serve in the military, teach, coach or have job and housing security. When it not only says this, but that Gay people are like those with contagious disease and mental illness...­I get testy as well.

--ez
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[1] http://www­­.vatican.­v­a/roman_­cu­ria/con­gre­gation­s/cf­aith/­docum­ents­/rc_co­n_c­faith_d­oc­_1992072­4­_homosexu­­al-persons­­_en.html
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Puzzlr
Anything to get out of work.
05:21 PM on 6/13/2011
Or any organized religion for that matter.
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Rickyrab
PhD student, Bloustein, bookworm, transit
52 minutes ago (12:19 AM)
Religions can be very beautiful, even though they are wrong sometimes.
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raker
16 hours ago (8:59 AM)
Agreed. And there's something very sad about Dignity. These are people who want to stay connected to the religion they grew up with despite the church's utter contempt for them. But there's nothing to love there. There's certainly no love to be found there—mayb­e among themselves but certainly not from the church.The catholic church is a toxic, nasty thing. The church tells gay people at every opportunit­y that they hate them and don't want them. It's time to believe it.

My wish is for gay people everywhere and the people who love them—their parents and siblings and extended families, their friends and neighbors and coworkers—­all turn their backs on the catholic church and shun it. It's a kind of prison, but the door is always open; all they have to do is walk out.
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Rickyrab
PhD student, Bloustein, bookworm, transit
60 minutes ago (12:12 AM)
because it's pretty and majestic. Why else?
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ratpick
03:11 PM on 6/13/2011
Yes, all are welcome. So long as you have the kind of sex I like.
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Ioan Lightoller
Proud Married Gay Pagan Man
03:14 PM on 6/13/2011
Fanned and faved. That sums it up very well.
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blackkatya
quod erat demonstrandum
03:18 PM on 6/13/2011
Given that this is the Catholic Church, do you mean the kind with little children involved?
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Ioan Lightoller
Proud Married Gay Pagan Man
04:15 PM on 6/13/2011
Sadly in too many cases, yes.
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faustbos
05:46 PM on 6/13/2011
I would not want to have the kind of sex priests have.
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Ioan Lightoller
Proud Married Gay Pagan Man
07:24 PM on 6/13/2011
Faved. Yeah. I go for adults myself.
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yoyo1900
03:07 PM on 6/13/2011
The Catholic Church discrimina­tes? Gee that is a novel idea.
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MizLiz
Yellow Dog Democrat
03:01 PM on 6/13/2011
Jesus wouldn't like that at all. I wonder what he'd make of all these bigoted fanatics.
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dancingstu
Christian, liberal lawyer
03:20 PM on 6/13/2011
He'd say "I never knew ye."
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OlongapoEd
04:10 PM on 6/13/2011
I'm sure that Rabbi Yeshua ben Yosef would be appalled at most of his "followers­".
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Ioan Lightoller
Proud Married Gay Pagan Man
04:16 PM on 6/13/2011
I would agree. Faved.
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Skeptic4Life
02:46 PM on 6/13/2011
Is anyone even surprised any more when the Church does something discrimina­tory and narrow minded?
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Ioan Lightoller
Proud Married Gay Pagan Man
02:50 PM on 6/13/2011
I'm certainly not. But I still call them and all the other haters out.
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Ioan Lightoller
Proud Married Gay Pagan Man
02:54 PM on 6/13/2011
I'm certainly not.
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