Posted on 04/07/2014 4:12:10 AM PDT by markomalley
Having worked in Catholic church music ministry for nearly 40 years — basically his entire adult life — Mike McMahon thought he knew the landscape and his place in it. As a gay person, all was fine as long as he was “discreet.”
And that worked for him even in the conservative Roman Catholic Diocese of Arlington, Va., where he was employed for about 30 of those years as music director at several parishes. In that time, McMahon, who has three graduate degrees in theology, also served as president of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians, the national body for liturgical music leaders in the Catholic Church.
Then came same-sex marriage, the topic that has roiled traditional religion and rocked the “don’t ask, don’t tell” status quo so common in houses of worship and religious schools.
Last summer, McMahon, 62, was fired as music director at St. Agnes Catholic Church in Arlington after news of his marriage reached the pastor, the Rev. Lee Roos…
Read on to learn why.
Secular humanists live and let live..
1 Corinthians 5:11
But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.
Can’t do anything to help them if they do it in secret.. but if folks are open with it (and marriage is public nowadays) , scripture tells a different story.. and more than once...
Sin is not a live and let live proposition with God or God’s people if they are truly a part of His Body...
Church should be a place for people to get help and support, not enabling.
Agreed....they should shut up and if they must just don't be proud of it in public. It is a disgrace but it is their disgrace.
Go back into the closet and stay away from our kids.
Though if people break down their doors and drag them out because of whatever they do in private, I back their right to their privacy.
I guarantee you that Catholic gay marriage will never, ever happen.
...come now, you are in no position to guarantee any such thing...many things that people in the past had thought were non negotiable have fallen by the wayside...
I agree with you.
Probably not before the Nov. 2014 elections...but they must have thought of that as a weapon.
Why not? The embracing of liberalism has worked out so well for the Episcopal and Anglican churches./Sarc with a capital S.
Homosexuals have yet to change the definition of “abomination”.
well, that explains the “we’re wonderful so let’s praise ourselves” music at mass.
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