- Earlier this year, a fifth-grade teacher at St. Joseph’s Catholic School in Moorhead, Minn., was fired because she questioned the Catholic Church’s stance on gay marriage, Minnesota Public Radio reports.
- Churchgoers, save yourselves
- All Families, All Saints
Meredith Bennett-Smith, Huffington Post
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Lennon Cihak holds up the sign that he photographed and posted on his Facebook page and was ultimately denied taking part in his Catholic Church confirmation about three weeks ago in Barnesville, Minn. (AP Photo/The Forum, Dave Wallis)
One Catholic teen's Facebook post reportedly cost him his confirmation last month after a picture of him holding a sign urging people to vote for "equal marriage rights" was spotted by his priest at a Minnesota church.
Rev. Gary LaMoine of the Assumption Church in Barnesville, Minn., allegedly denied Lennon Cihak the religious rite of passage after seeing him online holding a sign altered to criticize the Minnesota Marriage Amendment, the Forum of Fargo-Moorhead reports. The amendment would have changed the state’s constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman.
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O Minnesota, Is that what you would have us do? To have each of us pull down the shades before we pick up our children and twirl them around, giggling in delight? To make promises and build lives outside the view of everyone else? To sneak into hospital rooms, pretending we’re a good friend? To interpret our commitments, our promises, our our families as sin?
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November 1, 2012 | I’m humbled by the invitation to be here tonight. It’s a joy to be with you at this important time. My partner, Darin, and I have only lived in Minnesota since this summer. We moved here from Georgia, a state that already has a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as between a man and a woman.
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November 1, 2012 | I know the church well. My father is a minister; my grandparents were gospel singers until they were too old to sing. I was a poster child for our denomination at a young age, preaching by the time I was 16. It is this past and my love for my family that makes me worry about the future freedoms of the Christian church.
October 24, 2012 | When the federal government lets a church group impose religious doctrine on a publicly funded program, taxpayers have the right to take the matter to court.