Posted on 05/19/2016 6:04:20 PM PDT by massmike
The homosexual plaintiffs behind the Supreme Court case legalizing gay “marriage” across the U.S. are claiming discrimination after a Catholic cemetery declined their headstone design because it conflicted with Church teaching.
"It's pretty clear when you read the letter that this is a clear case of LGBT discrimination," said Greg Bourke, one-half of the same-sex Louisville, KY, couple named as plaintiffs in Obergefell v. Hodges.
Bourke and Michael De Leon held a press conference Wednesday outside St. Michael Cemetery to claim the Archdiocese of Louisville was discriminating against them for its rejection of the tombstone, local NBC affiliate WAVE-3 reports. Bourke says the archdiocese was getting a pass on showing prejudice against the men because of religious protection in anti-discrimination law.
Bourke and De Leon’s proposed headstone design blatantly revels in the Obergefell decision redefining marriage, sporting an image of the Supreme Court building beneath a pair of intertwined wedding rings between their two last names. Below the image of the high court building, their first names and middle initials, along with space for their respective dates of death are divided by a cross.
Bourke and De Leon, longtime attendees of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Louisville, were named the 2015 “persons of the year” by the dissenting National Catholic Reporter publication for the men’s role in undercutting marriage, which lauded “their faithful public witness as gay Catholics.”
The Catholic League defended the Louisville archdiocese for upholding Catholic morals in its cemetery policy.
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The Catholic Church is clearly violating the first amendment right to have everyone accept homosexual sex as normative behavior.
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There is no such thing as a gay Catholic.
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Virginians (and other Americans) should have listened to Patrick Henry's warnings that the Constitution would create a consolidated government and that the federal courts would interfere at the state level.
Clearly the solution is to excommunicate these two, case closed they are no longer Catholic, find a new cemetery. But I won’t hold my breath waiting for that to happen.
Probably discriminate against polygamous headstones too!
from the article :
The First Amendment ensures the free exercise of religion, and if that means anything, it means the right of religious institutions to determine their own strictures,” the group’s President Bill Donohue said in a statement. “That would include the right to deny those who seek to politicize Catholic graveyards.”
Bill Donohue has been fighting the good fight for years - link to his site below -
http://www.catholicleague.org/
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The cemetery is private property.
discrimination is hardly a bad thing.
they dont let muslims be buried in catholic cemeteries.
they dont let a whole bunch of people who dot believe what catholics believe, in cathlic cemeteries.
nothing wrong with discrimination, at all. discrimination keeps me out of a number of areas and places where i live. keeps me from interacting with certain people that are fr more likely to cause me problems.
Just make it in the shape of a cake and they can’t turn you down.
private property
I read another article where the two homosexuals were complaining that other tombstones had outrageous things like the words Harley-Davidson. How in heck can they claim to follow the Church, when they are obviblious to Church teaching?
This is their stealthy end-run attack on the Catholic Church’s refusal to enact a parody of the Sacrament of Matrimony for two men. Nobody’s tried to run that through the courts, yet. They’re calculating the angles, and this is a probe.
Zinger.
OMG! That sounds like what they’re doing. I guess faggots figure they can rewrite the Constitution, since they’re having so much luck rewriting laws and society.
So these Lefties scream discrimination based on sexual preference despite their screaming about some Constitutionally mandated separation of Church and State? Ok. Got it.
I think it is. In the immediate aftermath of the Obersomethingnazi ruling, there were brief flusters about same-sex couples being denied full Catholic Church marriage rites. Rumors of lawsuits swirled ... but nothing came of it. They’re afraid to try that yet.
This is an effort to creep in through the cemetery. If this is allowed, it will be cited as precedent when they decide to push on the “right” to a Catholic Church wedding.
Are any Jews buried there? Case closed. End of argument. Go start a gay cemetery.
Here lies Ed, still Gay at 88, he didn’t repent of his sins and now it’s too late!
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