Catholic Priest Receives Standing Ovation For Shunning Anti-Gay Marriage Drive

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Catholic Priest Receives Standing Ovation For Shunning Anti-Marriage Equality Petition Drive
Catholic pastor applauded for shunning anti-gay marriage drive


The congregation at Seattle’s Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church gave the Rev. Tim Clark a standing ovation Sunday when he announced that the parish would not gather signatures for a referendum to repeal same-sex marriage.

The parish became the sixth in Seattle to opt out of the petition drive for Referendum 74 that has been endorsed and foisted on parishes by Archbishop J. Peter Sartain.

“I am happy to report that Our Lady of the Lake parish-oners have been overwhelmingly and, thus far, unanimously supportive of the decision I made NOT to gather signatures in support of this Referendum,” Clark wrote in response to an e-mail.

“The standing ovation experienced during one of the Masses says less about me and much more about the health of this parish. I only wished the archbishop could have experienced the sustained applause — the ‘sensus fidelium’ — of the people. He needs to listen to this ‘voice.’ That is my prayer.”

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http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2012/04/17/catholic-pastor-appluaded-for-shunning-anti-gay-marriage-drive/

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1. Du rec. Nt

[dbackjon]

2. K&R

[LibertyLover]

3. Way to go Father Tim!!

Good on you.

[MineralMan]

4. Excellent. I hope more Priests follow his example.

This stand may cause this priest some trouble, but it is the right thing for him to do.

[Angry Dragon]

5. kick for the priest

[geardaddy]

6. Excellent.

[bemildred]

7. Bravo.

A profile in courage indeed.

[secondwind]

8. Awesome! K&R

[Old and In the Way]

9. It's pretty obvious that the Bishop-class of the RCC has thrown their lot in with the Republicans.

They've become way more politically/socially conservative than the flock and parish priests. Wouldn't surprise me if Rev. Clark gets transferred to some isolated outpost in retaliation.

[nolabear]

10. We're proud of him up here.

[patrice]

11. A morally courageous parish recognizes the universal human condition:

The Christian model, the UNIVERSAL model according to Catholics, i.e. the cross, is to live one's life at the nexus between ____________________ and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and to fully accept all of the phenomenal consequences, "positive" and "negative", of that dialectic.

You can't do that if you always and forever keep some intermediary between you and that dynamo, if, unlike Lord Jesus, you delegate that role to a bishop, or to a priest, or to the pope, or a minister, or to a spouse, or to ANY other means by which to displace your responsibility for being truly and fully alive to life.

Whether you manage to live authentically at that nexus or not, it is only there that it is possible to be authentic and, thus, to really live by John 13:34-35.

“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

[lsewpershad]

12. The C=church

is dieing slowly with such short sighted actions of discrimination.