Hundreds shut out of sole session on gays at World Meeting of Families

[Warren Stupidity]

PHILADELPHIA — Homosexuality was such a combustible topic at the World Meeting of Families, a four-day Catholic gathering under way here, that it was doused twice.

First, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput earlier this month barred LGBT Catholics from holding a workshop at a Catholic parish near the event.

It moved to a local United Methodist Church instead and is operating simultaneously, but with vastly smaller numbers than the 17,000 people on hand for the main event at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.

http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2015/09/25/hundreds-shut-out-of-sole-session-on-gays-at-world-meeting-of-families/

I can just feel the love.

[skepticscott]

1. So is this "bullying"

or just brazen bigotry? And will our resident crusaders on these issues be by to voice their condemnation?

[Cartoonist]

2. I am reminded of something similar

The republican congress formed a committee on women's reproductive rights that was made up with only men. No women allowed.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. The entire event was devoid of LGBT Catholic voices, none were allowed and they very openly said

so. No one would be allowed to say anything the Church did not approve of. Some on DU are trying to claim Francis speech at an aggressively exclusionary event was an inclusive speech.

The only session allowed was a discussion by a celibate man who identifies as gay and his mother, talking about how to cope with being a celibate. Just horrific. Yet people who claim to be our allies defend and excuse this crap. Legitimize it.

I've never been so totally turned off of electoral politics in my life. My favorite candidates sent me orders to pay heed to an anti gay activist and I am ready to puke.

[Leontius]

4. They got to have their meeting at a Methodist church

I would think all the separate but equal, reasonable accommodation supporters here would support this.