{"id":727,"date":"2004-05-31T15:01:15","date_gmt":"2004-05-31T20:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=727"},"modified":"2004-05-31T15:01:15","modified_gmt":"2004-05-31T20:01:15","slug":"protest-goes-over-the-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=727","title":{"rendered":"Protest Goes Over the Boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/Midwest\/05\/31\/gays.communion.ap\/index.html\">CNN.Com: Gay supporters denied communion at Chicago Mass; Minnesota Catholics blocked at altar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice that people are standing up for the rights of others but I really think the Rainbow Sash movement stepped over the bounds.  The Mass is for worship, not airing one&#8217;s political views.  The Chicago cardinal had a right to order that they should be denied communion as it *IS* Church teaching that homosexuality is a sin.  If you disagree so fundamentally with the teachings of the RCC, why are you trying to participate in the Eucharist?  The priest did the right thing in blessing them but denying them the sacrament as he affirmed their presence there but stood up for his convictions and the convictions of the Church.<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side, the laypeople in Minnesota went too far as it the priest&#8217;s decision and not theirs as to who receives the Body and Blood.  Kneeling in front of people and preventing them from participating diminishes the authority of the priest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN.Com: Gay supporters denied communion at Chicago Mass; Minnesota Catholics blocked at altar It&#8217;s nice that people are standing up for the rights of others but I really think the Rainbow Sash movement stepped over the bounds. The Mass is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=727\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-media","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-bJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}