Chicago's Catholic Cardinal Francis George Compares Gay Rights To The KKK
Posted on Dec 24, 2011 @ 12:00PM
The head of the Catholic Church in Chicago is being slammed for comparing gay rights groups to the KKK.
Cardinal Francis George made his shocking comments during a local Fox TV interview.
The Archbishop was asked to respond to the concerns voiced by a local pastor who'd suggested he might have to cancel Mass at his church one Sunday next June when a gay pride parade goes right past his doors.
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"He's telling us that they won't be able to have church services on Sunday if that's the case. You know, you don't want the gay liberation movement to morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan, demonstrating in the streets against Catholicism." George said. "So I think if that's what's happening, and I don't know that it is, but I would respect the local pastor's, you know, position on that."
Pressed by Fox Chicago's Mike Flannery and Dane Placko, George acknowledged that it was a strong comparison, but didn't back away from it.
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"The rhetoric of the Ku Klux Klan; the rhetoric of some of the gay liberation people — who is the enemy? Who is the enemy? The Catholic Church," the religious leader said.
The route and time for the parade were set by the Chicago City Council last October, and it has since adjusted the start time after the local pastor expressed his concerns about his church being inaccessible because of the event.
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Anthony Martinez, executive director of The Civil Rights Agenda, a Chicago-based LGBT advocacy group, told The Chicago Tribune he was so shocked when he watched a clip of the interview online that he had to stop and replay it.
"I literally had no words," Martinez said. "To equate a movement that is about acceptance, diversity and joy to a group of men in white hoods standing on a lawn and burning a cross is very hurtful and it's just not truthful."
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The Daily Juice
I wonder how many pedophile priests this Cardinal is protecting by moving them from church to church?
Posted Sun, 12/25/2011 - 3:37pm
My outrage is over protecting paedophile priests.
Posted Sun, 12/25/2011 - 12:57pm
The writer uses "COMPARES", yet the Cardinals comments has NO comparison. He says "you don't want the gay liberation movement to MORPH into something like the KKK.... nothing ill, just concern. If comprehension challenges, try remedial English.
Posted Sun, 12/25/2011 - 12:37pm
Yet he'll jack it to child porn, download it, maybe make it, because...hey...apparently the church thinks thats A-OKAY! Hypocrite: #1 profession for homosexual men is...U GUESS IT!
Posted Sun, 12/25/2011 - 3:20am
The guy's entitled to his opinion. But, God does NOT hate gay people, he hates the hurt and brokenness of the lifestyle. He loves the people as should all believers.
Posted Sun, 12/25/2011 - 1:29am
Stories like this remind me of why I left the Catholic church in the first place...and do NOT regret that move at all.
Posted Sat, 12/24/2011 - 8:54pm
Hope you do all know that this cardinal views are considered 'moderate' by Mell Gibson and his father.
Posted Sat, 12/24/2011 - 6:59pm
This old dude is way off base. I thought we were all God's children.
Posted Sat, 12/24/2011 - 6:48pm
Yes we are all God's children in the Catholic Church's eyes unless you are gay, lesbian, bi-sexual or transgender. After the child sex abuse from the Catholic Church we should all ban them from this country.
Posted Sat, 12/24/2011 - 7:33pm
This clown should be spending his time rooting out pedophilia in the Catholic church rather than attacking others, hypocritical phony Christian.
Posted Sat, 12/24/2011 - 6:06pm