Priest says bishop spurns gays [View All]

[davidinalameda]

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/mesa/articles/0503mr-priest0503Z11.html

A Catholic priest who took a leave of absence in January, citing health-related and "other" reasons, says in a letter to newspapers that Bishop Thomas Olmsted has turned his back on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered Catholics.

"I refuse to serve as a priest in a church environment that is increasingly sending a false and destructive message that my LGBT brothers and sisters and I are little more than immature, defective sex addicts," said the Rev. Chris Carpenter, former pastor of Christ the King parish in Mesa.

Carpenter was one of nine priests who signed an ecumenical statement of support for gay people in January 2003. Seventeen months later, Olmsted required the signers to revoke their support.

go figure-the Catholic Church turning it's back on GLBTs