Meanwhile, I wanted to make sure that in the big Obama DOMA news last week you didn't miss the latest installment of our Breaking News videos. This one is on a new tactic launched by the Gay Liberation Network in Chicago: organized protests during religious services.
“It's time to stop being nice to anti-gay bigots” is the Gay Liberation Network's new message--by which they mean it's time to start discriminating against good people like you who are standing up for the idea that to make a marriage you need a husband and wife.
Disruptive protests--coming to a church near you?
We hope not, but if so, you can count on us to be the voice for your values.
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If they oppose the Westboro Baptist Church's actions, what they should not do is emulate them.
Protesting against a bishop's highly publicized, highly political statements outside of his church is not remotely comparable to the message of hate and intentional emotional harm promulgated by the Westboro Baptist Church.
While protesting at a church is not a tactic I would encourage, Bishop George chose to involve his church in the political process -- including demonstrations against his position-- when he spoke against a particular political position as a church official. Had the protest been organized in response to an individual parishoner's statements, or in response to the church position in general, I might be able to take George's statements calling the protest "An open display of prejudice against the Catholic Church" seriously.
As it is: he chose to enter the ring and, by speaking as a church official, to drag his parish into the ring with him; if he doesn't like the fight, he should -- to paraphrase the statement of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith concerning the response to legislative proposals on the non-discrimination of homosexual person -- avoid disclosing his condition. After all, the vast majority of priests and bishops, concerned with the spiritual well-being of their parishoners rather than with political activism, are not the target of such protests.