Tuesday November 14, 2000
HOMOSEXUAL AND FEMINIST ACTIVISTS DISRUPT US CATHOLIC BISHOPS CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (LSN.ca) - The annual US Bishops conference was disrupted yesterday by homosexual activists who attempted to receive communion sacrilegiously. The group "Rainbow Sash" has organized activists to wear rainbow sashes and make a public spectacle over being denied Communion by priests. Prior to the Mass, attended by some 300 bishops, an announcement was made noting that the activists would not be allowed to receive communion. Another group of homosexual activists led by Dignity USA and Soulforce staged a quiet demonstration claiming that "the official teachings of the Roman Catholic church about sexual minorities lead to suffering and death," and accusing the Church of claiming to be "against violence but us(ing) the very hate language that causes it."
A feminist promoter of women's ordination was allowed into the bishop's conference posing as a reporter. At one point in the bishops' deliberations, Janice Sevre-Duszynska, accredited to the conference as a journalist, grabbed the microphone and demanded the bishops address the wrong done to "women called by God to ordination." The Washington Post reports that Sevre-Duszynska's action marked the first time a protester has interrupted a session of the bishops since the 1970s.
For more see the Post at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11952-2000Nov13.html
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