GoFundMe douses pitch for funds for priest who burnt rainbow flag — but conservatives pick up banner

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Supporters of the Rev. Paul Kalchik took to GoFundMe last week to raise money for the Catholic priest who claims he’s been forced into hiding after burning a rainbow flag on the grounds of his Chicago Catholic parish.
After GoFundMe removed this fund-raising campaign from its site, another site, Funding Morality, took it up. This article says that so far $86,000 has been raised.
“Funding Morality was founded by the Jewish Institute for Global Awareness “as a result of the denial by other ‘crowd funding’ platforms to profile persons of faith who would not compromise their moral and biblical convictions.””
 
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Nice to have another source when the secular source refuses you. GoFundMe also refused the bakers who needed financial help with their cases.
 
Glad to hear the bishop did the right thing and removed him from his church.
 
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A GoFundMe spokesman said the original campaign was launched Oct. 1 and shut down Oct. 6.

“This campaign violated GoFundMe’s terms of service. It has been removed and donors have been refunded,” he said.

The site prohibits campaigns supporting “the legal defense of alleged crimes associated with hate, violence, harassment, bullying, discrimination, terrorism, or intolerance of any kind relating to race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, sex, gender or gender identity.”
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Um has the priest been accused of a crime? I didn’t think so. So how can this violate the rules? I’d never support this website since they are like almost everything these days unjust bigots.
 
QwertyGirl said:
Glad to hear the bishop did the right thing and removed him from his church.
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The priest did nothing wrong. He burnt a flag that represents one of the 4 sins that cry to heaven for vengeance as scripture says. He was protecting the dignity of the church.
 
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In fairness to the priest, he is serving a parish that obviously has a checkered, if not downright troubled, history with having the Dignity group associated with their church, including a serious scandal involving at least one of their past pastors (some say 2 past pastors).

I am wondering why Cupich would have assigned this priest, who clearly has a traditional bent and I can’t imagine his superior didn’t know that, to this parish for any other reason than to get it back on track, perhaps to assist those parishioners who may have felt like their parish was being taken over by a special interest group. I don’t think making a big deal out of publicly burning that flag was necessarily the way to go, but threatening to commit the priest isn’t the way to go either. Unless he has been doing other things we don’t know about.
 
The priest burned the flag, as he said, “in a quiet way.” It doesn’t seem that he did in fact make a “big deal out of publicly burning that flag.”
 
Because it is left for one to decide what he thought he was going to accomplish by engaging in flag burning. Personally, I believe it sends the wrong message. Also, poor judgement on his part.
 
Maybe this is too pragmatic of an answer to the issue, but I’m sure the flag was blessed. It’s normal to dispose of blessed objects by burning.

And I mean come on. Even if hate is what it’s all about, the supreme Court made it perfectly clear that burning flags is just freedom of speech.
 
QwertyGirl said:
Because it is left for one to decide what he thought he was going to accomplish by engaging in flag burning. Personally, I believe it sends the wrong message. Also, poor judgement on his part.
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I think his motive was clear since he performed an exorcism in conjunction with the burning. Why was it poor judgement?
 
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Glad to hear the bishop did the right thing and removed him from his church.
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What did he do?

(Some friends of his are the ones that actually burned the flag. He cancelled it as a public event [it remained a private event].)

What do you think this priest, who had been homosexually molested in the past (so some of this activism for sexual deviancy here by the rainbow flag presence perhaps bothered him personally), did wrong here that you would be “glad” about?

What did the priest do so wrong here, that he should lose his career over and have his financial compensation withdrawn?

God bless.

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Perhaps this is a very minor point, but for those who are calling it “flag burning,” it wasn’t even a flag per se. It was one of those quilt-type banners which were popular to hang in church a few decades ago and which many churches still have piles of in their storage rooms. Notably, the banner combined the cross and the gay-rights symbol and was therefore at least arguably blasphemous.

For the record, I think he was perfectly right to burn it either way, but “flag-burning” sounds a bit more incendiary (ha) than burning an old banner.
 
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This priest defied his Bishop- to whom he vowed obedience.

He did not burn the flag “privately”. He did it in the parking lot of the church accompanies by parishioners.
 
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This priest defied his Bishop- to whom he vowed obedience.
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So he destroyed a homosexual banner against the wishes of Cdl Cupich. What should his penalty be for that?
 
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Well to start with he should show penitence for disobeying his Bishop. Hopefully he had the chance to do that. I don’t know whether we know that.

If he refuses to show submission that’s very serious for a priest.
 
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Feanor2 . . .
This priest defied his Bishop- to whom he vowed obedience.

He did not burn the flag “privately”. He did it in the parking lot of the church accompanies by parishioners.
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Who are you to judge?
 
QwertyGirl said:
Because it is left for one to decide what he thought he was going to accomplish by engaging in flag burning. Personally, I believe it sends the wrong message. Also, poor judgement on his part.
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Given the circumstances of what the flag represented and where it was placed in the church, what message do you think it sends?
 
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