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BARNESVILLE, Minn. If you want to be a Catholic, you have to be 100 percent Catholic.
Thats the lesson one family here learned after their 17-year-old son was denied confirmation after the priest at the Assumption Church here found a pro same-sex marriage post on the teens Facebook.
The decision by the Rev. Gary LaMoine to deny the religious rite of passage for Lennon Cihak in mid-October shocked his mother, who said her son has gone to church every week and volunteered around the community in preparation for his confirmation this year.
You kind of know the Catholic beliefs, but I never thought they would deny somebody confirmation because you werent 100 percent. I guess thats what shocks me, Shana Cihak said.
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Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)Religions are the invention of man, solely to suppress others.
Aristus
(66,388 posts)IDoMath
(404 posts)I hope someday he looks back on this as the day a priest opened the door for him and said "Fly! Be Free!"
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)And the church has been saying "no thanks" for so long, relevance will soon stop knocking.