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“At least five members of the audience walked out”
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Bishop Soto stuns national homosexual ministries conference
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When two Catholics from Southern California learned that Sacramento Coadjutor Bishop Jaime Soto was to be the keynote speaker at the National Association of Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries conference in Long Beach on Sept. 18, they decided to attend themselves to see and hear the talk in person. They say what they witnessed was a bishop who “courageously but gently” gave a clear presentation of Church teaching on sexuality.
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After California Catholic Daily reported on Bishop Soto’s plans to attend and speak at the conference (“Birds of a feather?” Sept. 15, 2008), many readers expressed disapproval or worry over how to interpret the soon-to-be Bishop of Sacramento’s decision. Bishop Soto will take over the diocese from retiring Bishop William Weigand on Nov. 30. The National Association of Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries, based in Berkeley, is a network of local ministries that has the reputation of taking, at best, an ambiguous stance on the moral character of homosexuality and homosexual acts.
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But there was noting ambiguous about Bishop Soto’s remarks to the group. “Sexual relations between people of the same sex can be alluring for homosexuals, but it deviates from the true meaning of the act and distracts them from the true nature of love to which God has called us all,” Bishop Soto said. “For this reason, it is sinful. Married love is a beautiful, heroic expression of faithful, life-giving, life-creating love. It should not be accommodated and manipulated for those who would believe that they can and have a right to mimic its unique expression."
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At least five members of the audience walked out during the bishop’s address. When he finished speaking, there was general silence – with only a very small number applauding.
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While the audience members were responding to the bishop’s remarks, a board member of the National Association of Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries came up to one of the tables in the room and said, “On behalf of the board, I apologize. We had no idea Bishop Soto was going to say what he said.”
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Well, one can hardly blame them for being surprised I suppose.
 
At least five members of the audience walked out during the bishop’s address.
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Obviously, it was to call all their friends and let them know what a really a really great bishop +Soto is :cool:
 
Wheeee!
They got one with a spine!!!

I love this bit of news.
 
Some of the posters here on various threads on homosexulity insist that such groups do not promote the gay agenda. One such ongong thread for example is about homosexual clubs at Catholic universities. This news item shows the true face of such groups. To these people, the bishop as he provided Catholic teaching was alien to their views.
 
Cardinal George of Chicago did the same thing at such a conference of Catholic homosexual organizations in Chicago three or four years ago. He asked to speak to the convention, and when he did he reiterated Catholic teaching on homosexual acts. The crowd was dead silent then too when he was done speaking. No one knew what was going to happen, so there were few reporters from the Catholic media there to report on this event.
 
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Cardinal George of Chicago did the same thing at such a conference of Catholic homosexual organizations in Chicago three or four years ago. He asked to speak to the convention, and when he did he reiterated Catholic teaching on homosexual acts. The crowd was dead silent then too when he was done speaking. No one knew what was going to happen, so there were few reporters from the Catholic media there to report on this event.
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Bet there weren’t many, if any, secular newspeople there either. If they were, I am sure mention of what the Cardinal said was ignored.
 
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