San Francisco Archbishop Outrages Community With Plans To Join Anti-Gay Rally

SAN FRANCISCO (CA)
Huffington Post

By Lydia O’Connor

The archbishop of America’s most liberal city is scheduled to speak at a massive anti-gay rally later this month, prompting more than 80 political and religious leaders to demand in a letter that he cancel his participation.

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, a leading supporter of California’s Prop. 8 to ban same-sex marriage in 2008, will speak June 19 at Washington D.C.’s March for Marriage, an event organized by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) and the Family Research Council — two groups that have taken some of the most hostile stances against same-sex marriage.

His involvement in their rally, the letter’s authors argue, is out of line with Pope Francis’ recent progressive words on treatment of the gay community.

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