Posted on 05/17/2014 7:26:26 PM PDT by marshmallow
Colleen Simon insisted on performing her job this week out of devotion.
On Wednesday, she managed a delivery of 2,000 pounds of food for the pantry at St. Francis Xavier Church. It’s work she sees as fulfilling God’s will, his call to serve.
She couldn’t let the food spoil.
But apparently, that is not the way the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph sees her role. Not anymore. Not after it was publicized that Simon is gay and married to another woman.
Simon’s job unraveled in a horrible confluence of unintended consequences that ran into the Catholic faith’s hypocritical stand on homosexuality.
Simon’s work as coordinator of social ministries was profiled April 30 in The Star’s 816 newsmagazine. The article highlighted Troost Avenue — its history and the many interesting people dedicated to its vibrancy today.
Colleen Simon and her wife, the Rev. Donna Simon of St. Mark Hope and Peace Lutheran Church, were mentioned deep in the story, along with the fact that they are a married couple.
The freelance writer didn’t intend to out the couple. They bear no grudge to her, nor to the priest currently serving St. Francis. The Simons have never hidden their marriage (in Iowa on May 19, 2012).
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
Tough noogies for her.
No bias there - just the facts, yessiree!
“Simon’s job unraveled in a horrible confluence of unintended consequences that ran into the Catholic faith’s hypocritical stand on homosexuality.”
Sad.
“Simon’s job unraveled in a horrible confluence of unintended consequences that ran into the Catholic faith’s hypocritical stand on homosexuality.”
Sad.
**Catholic Church Forces Woman to Leave Job After Gay Marriage is Revealed **
Good!
Full disclosure: It’s an ELCA Lutheran church, meaning Situation Ethics/social justice heterodoxy. LCMS and WELS Lutherans don’t have women pastors, much less lesbian pastors.
If I understand the article, they kept her on even though she left the Church and became a Lutheran.
What the article doesn’t make clear is whether this is a fully salaried job. Where does the parish get the money to pay for such a position? Usually, the ladies of the parish run food pantries as a matter of charity.
The whole thing is bizarre.
Bye
“St. Mark Hope and Peace Lutheran Church”
ELCA, of course, lest someone confuses it with a member of a Christian denomination.
I’m presuming Mary Sanchez is still Catholic, at least I think I remember her stating that she was in the past!
The secular left’s argument is with God and God alone. The Church is following God. The Church is not making up doctrine as they go along, as some imply.
Dear Mary: People can be hypocrites. A faith is not a person, and therefore can’t be.
And once more, I’m shocked, shocked, at the notion that a church organization expects its clergy and lay ministers to live under its discipline.
What an awful article, written not to garner sympathy for this woman, she is nothing more than a means to an end for the author. The writer had an agenda and she was a useful pawn in furthering that agenda.
The author says that God created homosexuality, which is false, but that is the narrative they are using now as a way to cow Christians into accepting what the Bible clearly condemns.
If the world hates you, know that it has hated me first. John 15:18
Viva Cristo Rey!
So mean and hurtful and, of course, judgmental.
Woman forces Catholic Church to remove her from a job for her sexual queer immoral life choice.
Isa_5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
You mean a Roman Catholic church demands their employees adhere to Roman Catholic doctrine?
Wow.
At ours it is men and women and none of them gets any pay.
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