UNITED STATES
The American Conservative
By ROD DREHER • October 9, 2013
Two stories, sent by readers from the Catholic frontlines. The first from St.Paul/Minneapolis:
Thank you for covering this story in my Archdiocese. It’s like finding if Bill Clinton had been found sexting Monica in 2008, on stage, while stumping for his wife. People never learn.
Archbishop Nienstadt and his priests spent the last two years warning us the sky was going to fall on the issue of gay marriage. And while I am a cultural conservative and supported the marriage amendment, I thought a lot of the arguments for it were poor and the pro-SSM side had a better marketing strategy, and a better Constitutional argument. And I’m counting the days until we are subjected to the merited impossibility.
Anyways, my point is the Archbishop made this his big mission, passing the marriage amendment, and it failed. But, while this was going on, he dithered on, “Gee, is that handsome naked boy younger than 14? Let’s debate this some more and keep that priest in ministry. But secular society affirming a monogamous relationship between two men? This means war!”
I’m embarrassed. I don’t dare let my children serve at altar, for their own protection.
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