NY gay Catholics march in Pride Parade; Bishop forbids display of Church’s banner [video]
”Perhaps some people come to St. Francis because they don’t feel judged… For me, the blank banner stands for, ‘We’ve been silenced.’ For me, that’s also very powerful and we can — I can — live with that this year.”
Stephanie Samoy, a parishoner at St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church in New York. She says that her particular church is extremely welcoming of lesbian and gay people. And while members have marched in the New York Pride Parade for several years under a banner bearing the name of the church, that they were forbidden to do so by the area’s new Archbishop, Timothy Dolan, this year. So, instead, they marched under a blank banner. (CNN)
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