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Media campaigners have condemned the BBC for its broadcast of a “gay Mass” from San Francisco on Sunday.
The service of Bible readings and prayers on BBC Radio 4 will explore what it means to be gay in the context of Christianity. Father Donal Godfrey is to lead the services from the Roman Catholic Church of Most Holy Redeemer in the Castro district of San Francisco. John Beyer, a broadcasting standards campaigner from Mediawatch UK, said that the BBC should focus on more mainstream religious programming. He said: “Having this particular service will cause offence to people who feel that such practices are wrong and are taught as such in Scripture.”
A Radio 4 spokeswoman said: “The strength of Sunday Worship is its diversity. . . As far as we know, this is the first time the subject of being gay and Christian has been explored by the programme.”
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Catholics come in all varieties and God loves them all Jesus came to bring all people into the embrace of the Father. Never once did Jesus say anything about homosexuals in the gospels, but quite often he did chastise those self-proclaimed religious experts who attempted to keep others outside the kingdom of God according to their own criteria of worthiness. I'll cast my bet with Jesus over any of his purported followers anytime.
Anthony Christiansen, Oxford, UK,
Fr. Dolan has been reprimanded many times for his gay position by the Church. We Catholics believe in Diversity like Spanish, American, English, Irish, Dutch, German, French, etc. We Catholics don't condone Perversity. Homosexuals are welcomed with open arms in a Catholic Church(Love the sinner, but hate the Sin.), but they must not be active Homosexuals for that is a Mortal Sin and partaking of the Holy Eucharist in a state of Mortal sin will bring them condemnation from Christ himself.
All sex outside of marriage is a mortal sin. Homosexual activity is disordered. You must live a chaste life if you have same sex attraction.
There is only one Truth, and His Name is Jesus and His Holy Catholic Church has the power to bind and lose concerning all it's members in faith and morals.
AMDG, Seattle, USA
Mass should be God centred.
Father Bryan Storey , Tintagel, UK