{"id":7605,"date":"2010-02-28T20:09:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T01:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7605"},"modified":"2010-02-28T20:09:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T01:09:44","slug":"homosexuals-protest-that-the-roman-catholic-church-is-too-roman-catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/homosexuals-protest-that-the-roman-catholic-church-is-too-roman-catholic\/","title":{"rendered":"Homosexuals protest that the Roman Catholic Church is too Roman Catholic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/8542285.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hundreds of Dutch activists have walked out of a Mass in protest at a Roman Catholic policy of denying communion to practising homosexuals.<\/p>\n<p>On this occasion, the church, in &#8216;s-Hertogenbosch, had already decided not to serve communion, so the protesters left, shouting and singing.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute began earlier this month when a priest in a nearby town refused communion to an openly gay man.<\/p>\n<p>This dispute began during Dutch carnival celebrations earlier in February, when the man chosen to be carnival prince in nearby Reusel was refused communion because of his open homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>The refusal offended many in the local community.<\/p>\n<p>Several hundred demonstrators, dressed in pink wigs and clothes, left the church in protest.<\/p>\n<p>The man at the centre of the row has said he just wants equal treatment &#8211; if he is regarded as a sinner, he wants the priest to refuse communion to all other sinners too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <em>man at the centre of the row,<\/em> rather than come to the Lord\u2019s table as a penitent sinner, wants to argue with God about his particular sinfulness which, presumably, he thinks is so special that it deserves to be affirmed rather than forgiven. That is equal treatment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: Hundreds of Dutch activists have walked out of a Mass in protest at a Roman Catholic policy of denying communion to practising homosexuals. On this occasion, the church, in &#8216;s-Hertogenbosch, had already decided not to serve communion, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/homosexuals-protest-that-the-roman-catholic-church-is-too-roman-catholic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,177],"tags":[2080,2167],"class_list":["post-7605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-homosexuality","tag-christianity","tag-homosexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}