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Good drag queens go to heaven
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 8/21/12 | Jon Carroll

Posted on 08/21/2012 10:52:00 AM PDT by SmithL

Recently, the Archdiocese of San Francisco, perhaps at the instigation of its incoming archbishop, Salvatore Cordileone, denied permission for drag queens to emcee at charity events in the community hall of Most Holy Redeemer, a Roman Catholic church in the Castro district.

That prompted this letter to me from the Rev. Robert Warren Cromey, who will identify himself in the letter:

"When I was rector of Trinity Episcopal in the late nineteen nineties, I conducted at least five funerals of drag queens in the church. They were usually held on Saturday afternoons. Neighbors' heads would lean out the windows in amazement as limos and motorized Cable Cars would pull up to the church and exquisitely dressed drag queens and their entourages would emerge and proceed quietly and respectfully into the cavernous Trinity Church.

"Usually about four hundred people showed up to participate in the memorial service for one of the departed queens. The music was tasteful and traditional, 'Amazing Grace' and 'Till We Meet Again' were popular. Eulogies giving thanks for the lives of the departed, hilarious stories of some escapades and tender tales of ministering to dying AIDS patients. I always preached a sermon on death and new life. There were prayers for the departed and his family. The procession out of the church was sung to 'God Save Our Nellie Queen' with Empress Jose Saria bringing up the rear.

"The church received a generous gift of money by the families and friends of the departed. I saw that welcoming these queens was just part of the ministry of the church."

Would that the Catholic Church had the same view. It seems that Cordileone, known to be extremely conservative, believes he has come to San Francisco to clean up the gay rot.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Catholic; Mainline Protestant; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: dragqueens; episcopal; homosexualagenda; sanfranciscovalues

1 posted on 08/21/2012 10:52:02 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

“The procession out of the church was sung to ‘God Save Our Nellie Queen’ with Empress Jose Saria bringing up the rear.”

What?? never mind


2 posted on 08/21/2012 10:56:39 AM PDT by Augustinian monk
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To: SmithL

Those nice big contributions, eh ...


3 posted on 08/21/2012 11:09:09 AM PDT by faithhopecharity
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To: SmithL
When I was rector of Trinity Episcopal

That's all you need to know

4 posted on 08/21/2012 11:12:04 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: SmithL

By definition, drag queens are gay. Why is this clown demanding the church honor gays?

Frankly, he sounds like a repressed tranny-chaser.


5 posted on 08/21/2012 11:27:04 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (OWS = The Great American Snivel War)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

Drag queen my rear end. If you ever saw these men dressed in drag they would shock the S out of you. First you think they are just a homely woman. Then you think they are a woman who dressed while loaded on drugs. Then when they get close you realize it is a double ugly dude wearing his grandmothers clothes.


6 posted on 08/21/2012 11:36:59 AM PDT by spawn44 (MOO)
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To: spawn44

Lol. I’ve seen it all - I’m trans.


7 posted on 08/21/2012 11:40:55 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (OWS = The Great American Snivel War)
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To: faithhopecharity

“Those nice big contributions, eh ...” - I suspect that when it is all said and done - Cardinal Dolan’s inviting 0bamba to the Al Smith memorial dinner had the same motivation - ‘social justice’ pays pretty well but only if the government doesn’t shut off the tap! It’s a shame.


8 posted on 08/21/2012 11:45:57 AM PDT by NHResident
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To: SmithL

I wouldn’t bet my eternal soul on that.


9 posted on 08/21/2012 12:42:53 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Psycho_Bunny
By definition, drag queens are gay. Why is this clown demanding the church honor gays? Frankly, he sounds like a repressed tranny-chaser.

Maybe he's coming out of the


10 posted on 08/21/2012 2:04:33 PM PDT by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: SmithL
This is why the Catholic Church IS the Abomination of Desolation. Any "church" that would let this despicable display occur in front of the Altar of God is of the Anti-Christ.

There is virtually no church discipline exercised. There is no discernment, no repudiation; only complicity with evil.

11 posted on 08/21/2012 2:46:16 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: fwdude
"This is why the Catholic Church IS the Abomination of Desolation."

I ask you to re-read the story. The author is Episcopalian (Protestant) and former rector of Trinity Episcopal (not Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church) who had permitted the drag queens funerals. He wrote in protest of Archbishop Cordeleone refusal to permit drag queens to use the church hall at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church for social and fund raising functions. It seems that in your haste to criticize the Catholic Church you inadvertently shot yourself in the foot.

Peace be with you

12 posted on 08/21/2012 3:55:40 PM PDT by Natural Law (Jesus did not leave us a Bible, He left us a Church.)
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To: SmithL

Good drag queens go to heaven

may that final parachute safely open, amen


13 posted on 08/21/2012 5:05:07 PM PDT by BlueDragon (going to change my name to "Nobody" then run for elective office)
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To: Natural Law
You are correct, I misread - a piece that was easily misleading. Why the author would weave stories about a profligate Episcopal church in with the coming of a conservative Rector to "clean it up" is purposeful obfuscation. But then, this is the Sodomcisco Chronicle.

But my condemnation of the Catholic Church stands. It allows and enables this level of behavior in other areas, with little or no effective repudiation. Catholic universities are a prime example. The recent incident of a priest being censured and suspended for refusing to give communion to an open, unrepentant lesbian is another.

14 posted on 08/21/2012 9:45:51 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: fwdude
Do you wear a back brace carrying this thing around?


15 posted on 08/21/2012 10:03:53 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Tell you what, Cunningham, wake me up the next time the Catholic hierarchy excommunicates, or even censures, a heretical politician or other high profile professor to Catholicism. I’m sure I’ll sleep solidly.


16 posted on 08/21/2012 11:06:08 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: fwdude

Read the history of the church and you will find that from the beginning she has been plagued by heretics and evil doers. Judas was only the first of many. But that’s no reason to dismiss the Church that Jesus founded. Unless yoou think that he founded a different one,which He didn’t.


17 posted on 08/22/2012 3:53:34 PM PDT by RichardMoore (There is only one issue- Life: dump TV and follow a plant based diet)
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To: fwdude
"But my condemnation of the Catholic Church stands."

Since you have thrown the first stone, tell us how without sin and error you and the members and clergy of your church are.

Peace be with you.

18 posted on 08/22/2012 4:12:55 PM PDT by Natural Law (Jesus did not leave us a Bible, He left us a Church.)
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