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Francis George Unchastity Ku klux Klan. Anger after Cardinal George compares some gay activists’ rhetoric to Ku Klux Klan December 23, 2011 From Our Store: Witness of Suffering (eBook) Cardinal Francis …More
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Anger after Cardinal George compares some gay activists’ rhetoric to Ku Klux Klan
December 23, 2011
From Our Store: Witness of Suffering (eBook)
Cardinal Francis George, backing one of his parish priests, called upon organizers of Chicago’s 2012 Gay Pride Parade to postpone the start of the parade so as to permit parishioners to attend morning Mass at a parish along the parade route.
Over 750,000 people watched the parade in June 2011.
“Well, I go with the pastor,” Cardinal George said. “I mean, 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. 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. Then I think that’s a matter of concern for all of us.”
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Cardinal George explains comparison between Gay Pride parade, KKK rallies
December 28, 2011
Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George has defended a public statement in which he compared organizers of a Gay Pride parade to the Ku Klux Klan.
In response to a reporter’s questions about an effort to shift the route of the Gay Pride march, Cardinal George had allowed that he was concerned about the parade …More
Cardinal George explains comparison between Gay Pride parade, KKK rallies

December 28, 2011
Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George has defended a public statement in which he compared organizers of a Gay Pride parade to the Ku Klux Klan.
In response to a reporter’s questions about an effort to shift the route of the Gay Pride march, Cardinal George had allowed that he was concerned about the parade organizers’ anger over a pastor’s request to shift the parade route so that the march would not block. the front door of a Catholic church at the time of a scheduled Sunday Mass. “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,” he said. The cardinal had come under heavy fire from gay-rights activists for making the comparison.
In a statement released by the Chicago archdiocese of December 27, Cardinal George explained that the parade organizers’ unwillingness to consider the pastor’s plea “invited an obvious comparison to other groups who have historically attempted to stifle the religious freedom of the Catholic Church.” He continued:
One such organization is the Ku Klux Klan which, well into the 1940's, paraded through American cities not only to interfere with Catholic worship but also to demonstrate that Catholics stand outside of the American consensus. It is not a precedent anyone should want to emulate.
Cardinal George expressed relief that the conflict had been resolved, and the parade will not pass the church at a scheduled Mass time. He said that it is “terribly wrong and sinful that gays and lesbians have been harassed and subjected to psychological and even physical harm,” but said that public efforts to redress that problem need not conflict with religious services.

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