Filipino Cardinal upset by gay men’s festival participation
“I am not angry at gay men. But, I am against what they’re actually doing.”
— Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales, head of Manila’s Roman Catholic Church, on his criticism of participation by gay men in the “Santacruzan” flower festival held across the Philippines every May in honor of the Virgin Mary. (Read more at Reuters)
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