ONE BRAVE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST

From MYMMedia:

On February 10th , 2011, The interfaith council lead by the "Standing on the Side of Love" campaign, gathered together religious leaders of many faiths and denominations; from episcopal, to Catholics, to Jewish, to Southern Baptist and many others.

All spoke from a perspective as to why they feel their faith should support marriage equality for same-sex couples.

this is father joe Palacios comments from the Catholic perspective.


MYM-Media was asked on behalf of the "Standing on the Side of Love" campaign to document the groups ongoing efforts to end marriage discrimination in Maryland and broaden the public discussion regarding the roll of faith in this civil rights issue.

Thanks to Wade.

"...A WARM CHRISTIAN WELCOME TO THE EVIL DOERS...."

The following quote is from a satire at the The Daily Mash, which is almost too close to the "Love the sinner; hate the sin" mindset of certain Christians to be funny, but the piece hits the target.

CHURCH of England vicars will bless gay couples as long as they are allowed to quote Bible passages about them being abominations who must be put to death.

As the House of Lords voted to allow same-sex church ceremonies, vicars said they would extend a 'warm Christian welcome to the evil doers and their perverted bedtime acrobatics'.

Rev Denys Hatton, vicar of St Gary's in Folkham, said: "I am more than happy to perform a gay blessing as long as I am allowed to pick the reading. And since you ask, I would kick things off with a spot of Corinthians, where St Paul makes it abundantly clear that homosexuals are 'unrighteous'.

"Then I'd crank it up with a quote from Romans where St Paul describes them as 'degrading', 'depraved' and 'indecent'."

Read the rest at the Mash.

Thanks to Lapin for the link.