Quote: Pariah said: I need to know the full context here before making a full judgement myself. Communion is something you cannot recieve in mortal sin, if those parishners were fixin' to recieve Christ whilst supporting a homosexual allowance for marriage and having sex, then I can appreciate the priest's feelings.
If you don't mind, could you clear a couple things up for me?
Is a mortal sin different from a regular sin? How do you know which sins are mortal sins and which ones are not?
Also, you said that if parishoners were supporting the idea of gay marriage, you could understand the priest's view. Does this mean that supporting the idea of gay marriage without actually engaging in it would be considered a mortal sin, or make one worthy of being denied Communion?
Quote: If, however, these were to signify acceptance of people rather than their typical practices, then the priest was definitely wrong.
I found the following quotes in the article I posted:
Quote: Sister Gabriel Herbers said she wore a sash to show sympathy for the gay and lesbian community. Their sexual orientation "is a gift from God just as much as my gift of being a female is," she said.
Ann McComas-Bussa did not wear a sash, but she and her husband and three children all wore rainbow-colored ribbons and were denied communion. "As a Catholic, I just need to stand in solidarity with those that are being oppressed," she said.
Quote: The Rainbow Sash Alliance says that by wearing the sash, members "publicly claim our place at Christ's table, sacramentally expressing the truth in our lives, and calling the church to embrace a new day of integrity and freedom."
Organizer Brian McNeill wrote to Flynn last month, explaining that the sashes are a symbol "to celebrate the gift of our lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender sexuality."
Flynn wrote back to say the sashes are "more and more perceived as a protest against church teaching," declaring that it has never been acceptable "to use the reception of communion as an act of protest."
So that's an idea of where some of these people are coming from. It sounds like it's about fair treatment of gays as people, rather than an advocation of gay marriage.
Last edited by Darknight613; 2005-05-168:05 PM.
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