Comments on: Twin Cities Bishop to Priests: Toe the Line on Marriage or Keep Your Mouth Shut

By: Truth Wins Out - Dozens of Current & Former Catholic Priests Defy Archbishop, Oppose Marriage Discrimination Amendment

Fri, 18 May 2012 18:20:30 +0000

[...] into the Mass, subjecting students at Catholic high schools to mandatory anti-gay lectures, and silencing any of his priests who would dare to dissent from the official Church position on marriage [...]

By: Truth Wins Out - Minnesota Catholics Sing Out for Marriage Equality

Truth Wins Out - Minnesota Catholics Sing Out for Marriage Equality — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:23:26 +0000

[...] spiritual bullying a priority (especially in Minnesota, where the Catholic Church is throwing its weight behind a proposed marriage discrimination amendment to that state’s constitution) it’s [...]

By: Truth Wins Out - Minnesota Catholic High Schoolers Not Happy With Mandatory Marriage Discrimination Lecture

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:10:49 +0000

[...] the Catholic Mass, turned that church’s holiest sacrament into a weapon against LGBT people, ordered his priests to organize grassroots political committees in their parishes — at parish expense [...]

By: John Becker: Pope Blesses U.S. Bishops’ Persecution Of LGBT People | Screw Cable

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:31:49 +0000

[...] The visiting delegation included bishops from Minnesota, South Dakota, and North Dakota. It was led by Twin Cities Archbishop John Nienstedt, who has inserted himself more deeply into the battle over civil marriage than perhaps any other Catholic bishop across the country. Nienstedt is the same prelate who injected a prayer for marriage discrimination into the Catholic Mass, turned the Eucharist — which is sacred to Catholics — into a weapon with which to marginalize and exclude LGBT people, and told the priests of his diocese that if any of them dared to oppose the Church’s efforts to write its discriminatory teachings on marriage into the state constitution, they had better keep their mouths shut. [...]

By: Truth Wins Out - BREAKING: Pope Blesses U.S. Bishops’ Persecution of LGBT People

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:50:26 +0000

[...] The visiting delegation included bishops from Minnesota, South Dakota, and North Dakota. It was led by Twin Cities Archbishop John Nienstedt, who has inserted himself more deeply into the battle over civil marriage in Minnesota than perhaps any other Catholic bishop across the country. Nienstedt is the same prelate who injected a prayer for marriage discrimination into the Catholic Mass, turned the Eucharist — which is sacred to Catholics — into a weapon with which to marginalize and exclude LGBT people, and told the priests of his diocese that if any of them dared to oppose the Church’s efforts to write its discriminatory teachings on marriage into the state constitution, they had better shut up about it. [...]

By: Paul Douglas

Paul Douglas — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:34:26 +0000

This isn’t just about LGBT people. How ANY woman can stay in this citadel of misogyny is totally beyond my comprehension. The only way for the roman church to wake up is for people to LEAVE. Period. And tell them why on your way out the front door.

By: Gene

Gene — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:30:18 +0000

I have some good friends who are Roman Catholic priests and nuns John. They love your denomination, but, one of them was very honest with me and just said “in truth, anyone who is gay and remains Catholic must have some issues of denial and seeing what they want to see. I understand why X (a friend we had in common) became an Episcopalian.”

X (named Paul) is gay.
The parish may be welcoming, but, the denomination is not, and probably never will be.
To each their own, but if you wish to remain a Christian, why be one in denomination that is so vehemently bigoted and anti gay? It is not the only choice in town, and is no closer to God than the others.
Food for thought

By: John Watkins

John Watkins — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:35:34 +0000

This is stomach-turning. I can remember the days that as a gay teenager the Vatican II Church gave me the courage to come out! My partner and I have been together now for 25 years. Our son is also Catholic and is now doing his confirmation classes at a welcoming parish. I hasten to add, talking with him and other Catholic teens gives me real hope for the future. They see the full value of our tradition, and they also recognize bigotry and gobblety-gook when they hear it.

There’s a real level of stupidity in the Church’s arguments these days that really embarrasses me. One thing has become patently clear: it was a lot harder to become a bishop in the days when they could pick from hundreds of talented priests. Now that vocations have been down for a good fifty years, they’ll consecrate just about anyone regardless of his intelligence or lack thereof.

By: MD

MD — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:50:29 +0000

I left the Catholic Church because of its rigid, hateful social policies.

However, here in the Twin Cities, Catholic Charities is a separate nonprofit. While the Archbishop is technically the president, donations to Catholic Charities are used to serve the poor and homeless, not for any anti-gay work of the Archbishop.

By: Stephen D.

Stephen D. — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:56:38 +0000

Seems to me that SOMEbody is looking for a promotion………..or maybe a red hat, most likely.