[SamuraiScot]

at least three local Catholic churches deciding they don't want the fight over gay marriage to have a place there during Sunday services

Great opportunity to save money. Cut them off, put the pastors in monasteries under a vow of silence, and close the churches.

[texanred]

This is neither the dark ages nor a gulag church. We don’t cloistrate people against their will. We don’t force people to take unwilling vows of silence to shut them up if we dont like them. We especially don’t close down parishes with families in need of absolution and the most blessed sacrament because the pastor elects not to participate in a voluntary political petition. These are immortal souls starving for sacraments - not a civic matter.

[texanred]

This is neither the dark ages nor a gulag church. We don’t cloistrate people against their will. We don’t force people to take unwilling vows of silence to shut them up if we dont like them. We especially don’t close down parishes with families in need of absolution and the most blessed sacrament because the pastor elects not to participate in a voluntary political petition. These are immortal souls starving for sacraments - not a civic matter.