Homo stickers, churches, Laramie
• Homophobia
With almost ever newspaper covering the Anglican Communion's battle over gay clergy there's no reason for me to mention it. Here's a few things from today's newspapers
“In reference to your ‘homo sticker’ and schools needing money and Air Force having a bake sale to buy their bombs. I would like you to know that your unappreciation of the freedom that you can express your gayness is allowed due to the men and women who died for you in wars and conflicts. Less the money/funds go towards Air Force, less the freedom to be a gay ass liberal as yourself. You make America sick!”
English professor receives threatening note on car
The pastor of a Catholic church in the Bronx booted a gay couple from the choir after they went public with their wedding ceremony - leaving the two men heartbroken.
Msgr. Edmund Whalen of St. Benedict's blocked newlyweds Michael Sabatino and Robert Voorheis from rehearsal Sunday when they returned from their nuptials in Canada.
"I sort of feel like I'm in mourning," Sabatino told the Daily News. "I've been in the choir for 32 years and all of these people have been my family."
Sabatino, 53, and Voorheis, 48, who live in Yonkers, have been together 25 years, and they have been singing at Sunday Masses for just as long.
On Oct. 4, the couple - one's a businessman, the other a decorator - made their union official in a Church of Canada ceremony in Niagara Falls. The wedding made headlines, including a front-page story in Westchester County's The Journal News. The couple said they did not expect any repercussions because many parishioners knew they were gay.
But when they showed up at the Throgs Neck church last weekend, with Sabatino's 85-year-old mother, Rae, in tow, Whalen met them outside. He told them that parishioners had complained about having choir members who flouted the stricture against homosexuality - and he barred them from taking their places.
Tracy Connor, New York Daily News: Pastor boots gay couple from choir
ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- The Western North Carolina Association of the United Church of Christ has approved its first openly gay minister.
Members also reaffirmed a 1983 resolution that says "avowed practicing homosexuals shall not be ordained to the Christian ministry in this association."
The apparent contradictory decisions at the association's annual meeting led some people to think the members didn't understand what they were doing.
The Associated Press: N.C. church ordains first lesbian minister
Like many in Laramie, Mickelson found the media attention perplexing, especially since he knew of Henderson, McKinney and Shepard. He is annoyed by the idea of Shepard as the innocent victim, an icon of persecuted gay America.
Matthew Van Dusen, Casper Star-Tribune: Making sense of murder
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