Philly archdiocese denies it blocked petitions backing fired gay teacher
PHILADELPHIA, PA, August 5, 2015 ( LifeSiteNews ) -- Media reports stating that the woman fired from a Philadelphia -area Catholic school eight years after entering into a homosexual “marriage” was barred Monday from delivering a box of petitions to Philadelphia’s archbishop are “entirely false,” the Archdiocese of Philadelphia tells LifeSiteNews. A security guard reportedly refused Margie Winters entry to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia offices, according to a Philly.com report , because the building was supposedly on lock-down. "Because I'm so threatening," Winters is reported to have kidded with the guard, handing him the box with a request to deliver it to Archbishop Charles Chaput , O.F.M. Cap . The story was also published by the Huffington Post , with the headline Fired Lesbian Catholic School Teacher Locked Out Of Archdiocese While Trying To Deliver Petitions, and picked up by numerous other outlets as well. Archdiocesan spokesman Ken