Support for fired St. Agnes music director

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Support for fired music director

And so St. Agnes Catholic Church passed judgment and fired choir leader Joe Nadeau because he is homosexual and director of the Heartland Men’s Chorus (5/29, A-1, “Ties to gay choir cost music director his job”). What are they going to say when they see him leading the heavenly choirs?

In Matthew 25, it was written that Jesus himself said, “Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me. ... And inasmuch as you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me.”

Sounds to me they just kicked out of their church the manifestation of Christianity. It’s sad that in the 21st century some people are still holding on to ancient prejudices under the guise of religion.

Keep making beautiful music, Joe and Heartland Men’s Chorus. God loves you, and so do I.

J.M. Sturgess
Independence

So the new pastor of St. Agnes Catholic Church has fired a skilled music director because the man also leads a secular gay choir.

I’m old myself, but the story brings to mind someone even older, a 90-year-old retired music teacher who recently passed along this adage:

As I grow old, and totter toward my tomb,

I find that I care less and less,

who goes to bed with whom.

Best wishes to the poor folks at St. Agnes who lose so much sleep worrying about that question.

Charles Hammer
Shawnee

I was saddened to read that some parishioners of St. Agnes Catholic Church demanded the termination of their music director because he directed the Heartland Men’s Chorus. Surely choral singing should not be considered a “disordered act.”

As a practicing Catholic for more that a half of century, I don’t know how I missed the Gospel in which Christ directly addressed homosexuality. However, I did not miss Christ’s commandment to “love thy neighbor.” These parishioners must be very holy indeed to “throw the first stone.”

Sally A. Radmacher
Kansas City


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