BANGOR, Maine - A pro-life university professor has been banned by a bishop from a Catholic church for delivering before the parish congregation an unannounced pro-life notice. University of Maine Professor Terrance Hughes said the matter arose after he learned of fund-raising spaghetti dinner to be hosted May 24 by pro-abortion U.S. Rep. John Baldacci at St. John’s Church in Bangor.
Baldacci, who calls himself a Catholic, has a consistent voting record in favor of abortion. He has voted three times in favor of partial birth abortion. Moreover, Hughes said that 10 years ago he picketed a spaghetti dinner at a local public high school where Baldacci was raising funds for a local abortion clinic.
Hughes attempted to bring the matter of the May 24 event to the attention of the parish priest and the local bishop, but received no responses to his communications. Taking matters into his own hands, before a Mass on May 11 Hughes addressed parishioners letting them know Baldacci’s record on abortion and displaying a sign depicting an aborted baby. Hughes was ordered out of the church by the parish priest, Fr. Jerry Gosselin, and left peacefully. After leaving the church following his presentation of only a few minutes, Hughes said, Fr. Gosselin addressed him saying: “Wait till the university hears about this; you’re finished.”
Hughes addressed his concerns over the incident in a letter to Bishop Joseph Gerry of Portland, Maine. He was later informed that he was issued an order barring him from the church for a year.
Twelve pro-lifers demonstrated outside the church as Baldacci hosted the parish dinner on May 24. Hughes said he informed the bishop that he and other pro-lifers have been showing the graphic abortion signs in various cities and towns, but not until now “in front of churches; maybe that’s where we should have been from the beginning.”
There is no trust anymore. Not in anyone. Elected officials, Churches, Priests,Pastors.......in their little back rooms, none of them are any better then the rest of us. Some are even a lot worse. This sickens me.
We are supposed to hold them in high esteem. But when they go in their rooms and shut the door, they are no better then anyone else. "Do As I Say Not As I Do!" And they smoke their big cigars and laugh at us all the way to the banks.