Article on homosexuals costs staffer his job (Jesuit national newsletter)

[The Straight Story]

Article on homosexuals costs staffer his job

By DENNIS CODAY

Erik Meder was asked to resign his post with the U.S. Jesuit Conference because of an article he wrote for a Jesuit national newsletter that advocated the church have an open dialogue with homosexuals about homosexuality.

Meder told NCR that as soon as the article, “Strangers No Longer: Who is the Other among us?” appeared in the in the April/May 2005 issue of National Jesuit News (see story), he was called into the offices of Jesuit Fr. Jim Stormes, his immediate supervisor, and Jesuit Fr. Tom Gaunt, the executive secretary, or socius, of the U.S. Jesuit Conference.

“I was asked to resign or be terminated for submitting the article,” Meder said. “Because the article was already printed, it had caused, it was explained to me, ‘irreparable harm to the Society of Jesus in the United States.’ ”

Gaunt told NCR, “Once the error was realized, we stopped from being mailed out.” He said a couple hundred copies were not mailed, most of them to overseas readers of the newspaper, which serves the 3,200 Jesuits who belong to U.S. provinces.

http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2005b/052005/052005i.htm

[Maraya1969]

1. No wonder the MSM won't address anything that does not support

the Christina agenda.

It wasn't too long ago that journalists would be fired for reporting the same about blacks in America.