John McCusker
Risky, because I only know what I have read about this on a Yahoo news site, but I'll take a run at it anyway. It seems the Roman Catholic Church has refused to bury John McCusker, a 1996 graduate of The University of San Diego (a Roman Catholic University), nor will they agree to his funeral being conducted in any other church in the San Diego Diocese. He died of a heart attack while skiing.
The Church says the issue is the nature of the business he ran. He owned gay bars. They said his business clashed with the church's moral teachings. How many mobsters have been buried from the Catholic Church? His friends say the issue is not his business but his being gay.
If this turns out to be true it strains belief. Has the Roman Catholic Church become so nuttily caught up in the sex hysteria in this nation that it would actually refuse burial to a gay Catholic?
The article said the funeral would be held at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral. The Episcopal Church has been pretty timid on the issue itself. But St. Paul's has been welcoming of gay men and women for some years. Nice to be happy about something the Epsicopal Church is doing.
As I write I am hearing a report on NPR confirming this story.
Shame.
The Church says the issue is the nature of the business he ran. He owned gay bars. They said his business clashed with the church's moral teachings. How many mobsters have been buried from the Catholic Church? His friends say the issue is not his business but his being gay.
If this turns out to be true it strains belief. Has the Roman Catholic Church become so nuttily caught up in the sex hysteria in this nation that it would actually refuse burial to a gay Catholic?
The article said the funeral would be held at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral. The Episcopal Church has been pretty timid on the issue itself. But St. Paul's has been welcoming of gay men and women for some years. Nice to be happy about something the Epsicopal Church is doing.
As I write I am hearing a report on NPR confirming this story.
Shame.
posted by Blayney at 3:26 PM
1 Comments:
I hold two graduate degrees from USD. I can say that my three years there reinforced my sense of double standards applicable to the Roman church.
I am very glad that Dean Richardson stepped in and made St. Paul's an open and welcoming place to help this family. I liked his statements.
The Catholic church has much to be ashamed of on this one. Bishop Brom wanted to avoid a PR scandal - but he got one instead.
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