Same-sex marriage is new test for Catholic institutions used to ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

[theHandpuppet]

Same-sex marriage is new test for Catholic institutions used to ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’
The Washington Post
By Michelle Boorstein
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/same-sex-marriage-is-new-test-for-catholic-institutions-used-to-dont-ask-dont-tell/2014/04/06/1e1c8702-bdb7-11e3-b195-dd0c1174052c_story.html

Having worked in Catholic church music ministry for nearly 40 years — basically his entire adult life — Mike McMahon thought he knew the landscape and his place in it. As a gay person, all was fine as long as he was “discreet.”

And that worked for him even in the conservative Roman Catholic Diocese of Arlington, Va., where he was employed for about 30 of those years as music director at several parishes. In that time, McMahon, who has three graduate degrees in theology, also served as president of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians, the national body for liturgical music leaders in the Catholic Church.

Then came same-sex marriage, the topic that has roiled traditional religion and rocked the “don’t ask, don’t tell” status quo so common in houses of worship and religious schools.

Last summer, McMahon, 62, was fired as music director at St. Agnes Catholic Church in Arlington after news of his marriage reached the pastor, the Rev. Lee Roos…MORE

[Warpy]

1. Well, at least he can collect Social Security

while he looks for a more reasonable religion. I'd suggest the Anglicans, it's the same church but without Rome's jackboot on its neck.

Well, if only he can manage to live outside the Irish Catholic "club."

[MNBrewer]

2. Anglicans have their own issues regarding gay marriage.

http://americablog.com/2014/04/anglican-church-archbishop-must-discriminate-against-gays-lest-someone-think-were-gay-and-bash-us.html

[Warpy]

3. Yes, it can vary from congregation to congregation

but it's still a breath of freedom for anyone subjected to the rigidity of the Imperial Roman Church.