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Catholic Cardinal Francis George Compares Gay Pride Parade to Ku Klux Klan
Appearing on Fox’s Chicago station, Cardinal Francis George compared next year’s Gay Pride Parade to the Ku Klux Klan (video below).
Cardinal George said that the Gay Pride Parade route in late June of 2012 might cause Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church to cancel Sunday mass for the first time in almost 100 years.
“You don’t want the gay liberation movement to morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan, demonstrating in the streets against Catholicism,” Cardinal George said.
“That’s a little strong analogy, Ku Klux Klan,” Fox Chicago’s Dane Placko noted.
“It is,” Cardinal George agreed. “But you take a look at the rhetoric, the rhetoric of the Ku Klux Klan, the rhetoric of some of the gay liberation people. Who is the enemy? The Catholic Church.”
Upon hearing the church’s concerns, parade organizers agreed to move the event start time from 10 a.m. to noon.
State Rep. Sara Feigenholtz (D) on Wednesday called on Cardinal George to apologize.
“The Cardinal’s unfortunate choice of words in comparing the LGBT community to the Klu Klux Klan is offensive,” she told ChicagoPride.com.
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I can't blame him for closing
I can't blame him for closing the church during the parade. Some drunk parade participants that have to go real bad may confuse the church bathroom with a park or airport bathroom.
I don't follow anyone, because those that appear to be on the same path usually end up just getting in my way.
@shawninMo ....Not everyone
@shawninMo ....Not everyone has your seemingly inability to control alcohol consumption.
Chuck
When you have video of me
When you have video of me getting drunk and acting stupid in public, then you may have your first stitch of evidence that your statement is even close to being true.
I don't follow anyone, because those that appear to be on the same path usually end up just getting in my way.
@ Michael Allen.....The
@ Michael Allen.....The Catholic Church is the enemy of the gay and lesbian community..................................The Gay and Lesbian community is not the enemy of the catholic church.
Chuck
The Catholic Church, a
The Catholic Church, a foreign government by the way, wants gays in the U.S. and other nations to be 2nd class citizens. They want gay couples to be denied the right to marriage. But, when gays protest against it, they are like the KKK? The KKK oppressed people. They murdered Catholics. When has a gay man or gay woman ever murdered a Catholic leader? If it has happened once, I would be shock. It would be easy for me to state that in this example the Catholic church is like the KKK, but that would be wrong. The KKK is not trying to commit violence against gays. But, they want gays to be 2nd class citizens. For a Catholic leader to gay protestors, to KKK membeers is disgusting. The right to protest does not make you analgous to the KKK. But, being a theocracy where dissent is not tolerated, I am sure the Catholic church has a hard time making the distinction.
Jerome McCollom
How ironic. The Roman church
How ironic. The Roman church denigrates a whole population--gays and lesbians--by decreeing that they are "intrinsicially disordered". How is that different that racists' saying other races are inferior? And it is only because modern secular governments prevent them that the Roman church no longer engages in its traditional responses to difference--torture and mass murder-- no less vicious that the Klan's, exccept, of course, that the church butchered people on a much larger scale. Like the Klan, they demand that their beliefs--little more than vanity, malice, and wilful ignorance--be imposed by the law on everyone.