Montana gay couple denied Communion after marriage

[theHandpuppet]

SRN News
Montana gay couple denied Communion after marriage
Fri, Sep 19, 2014

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A gay couple has been told they can no longer receive Communion or participate in church ministry after a new priest at a Roman Catholic church in central Montana learned they had been married in a civil ceremony more than a year ago.

The decision set off a split that has cut attendance at St. Leo the Great Catholic Church in Lewistown. Bishop Michael Warfel of the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings plans to visit on Saturday to discuss how church teachings apply to the situation.

Paul Huff, 66, and Tom Wojtowick, 73 — who have been in a committed relationship for more than 30 years and have lived together in Lewistown for 11 years — said they were stunned by the decision of the Rev. Samuel Spiering, who also said the men could not sing in the church choir.

Wojtowick said the men married in Seattle in May 2013 so they could make medical and financial decisions for each other....

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2. "The decision set off a split that has cut attendance at St. Leo the Great Catholic Church"

This is happening all over. Who's destroying church attendance in the USA? True Christians™ and their hatred.

[theHandpuppet]

3. I've read the same kind of split is happening within the Presbyterian Church in Scotland

Not to mention the Anglican church elsewhere. People are sick and tired of the institutionalized hating of LGBTs.