Cracking down? Gay sash-wearers denied Communion (Pioneer Press)

[katinmn]

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/11575244.htm
Gay sash-wearers denied Communion
Flynn reverses policy; activists 'disappointed'
Posted on Fri, May. 06, 2005
BY STEVE SCOTT
Pioneer Press

Archbishop Harry Flynn has told gay-rights supporters they will not be allowed to receive Holy Communion while wearing rainbow-colored sashes because the practice is increasingly seen as a protest against Catholic teaching and is unacceptable to the Vatican.

Flynn's decision, conveyed in a letter this week to the Rainbow Sash Alliance USA, reverses his four-year policy of not interfering with sash-wearers receiving Communion at the Cathedral of St. Paul.

Rainbow-sash supporters in St. Paul and a handful of dioceses elsewhere have organized their presence around the Christian celebration of Pentecost, which this year is May 15.

Brian McNeill, Minneapolis organizer of the Rainbow Sash Alliance, made the letter public Thursday and said it would not prevent people from wearing the sash a week from Sunday at the Cathedral.

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[Krupskaya]

1. The denial of communion is disgusting.

COMMUNION. Look it up, Flynn.

[katinmn]

2. I wonder if this is a directive from the new pope

Flynn had resisted withholding communion for four years, and now this.

[hermetic]

4. Yes, I heard on the news

this morning that it was a directive from the poop, er pope.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. Denying a person Communion is considered an extreme censure

:-(

[dpbrown]

5. What a crock

That's what you get when you elect the John Ashcroft of the Cardinals Pope.

[katinmn]

6. This "holier than thou" attitude sucks.

:thumbsdown:

[MnFishhead]

7. Hah! As if the Catholic church...

...has ANY ground to stand on when it comes to sexual morality!