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Catholic parish hosts gay dance party for Lady Gaga’s LGBT charity. Seriously

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Blessed Sacrament Church in the Archdiocese of New York has announced that its “Gay Fellowship” group will be partnering with Lady Gaga ’s “ Born This Way Foundation ” to hold a fundraising dance in the parish hall. John Gasdaska with 'husband' Wright Moore According to promotional  materials  displayed on the parish website, the event, which is styled a “dance party,” is called “Moving With the Spirit,” and will feature “cocktails, cabaret, silent auction, and dancing.” It is scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday, June 17. The parish’s “Gay Fellowship” is headed by John Gasdaska, a man who “married” his homosexual partner in 2016 in an Episcopal church . Blessed Sacrament’s administration organized a celebration of Gasdaska’s “marriage” soon after the “wedding,” openly  publicizing  the event in the parish bulletin. The money raised by the dance will be used to fund the activities of two homosexualist organizations: the Born this Way Foundation and the Ali Forney Center

‘We were deceived’ on New York gay ‘marriage’ vote: Archbishop Dolan

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NEW YORK, NY, November 25, 2011 - In the aftermath of the legalization of gay “ marriage ” in New York state , some commentators had wondered why, despite their leadership role in the fight against the law, the state’s Catholic bishops ’ efforts had ultimately seemed so strangely half-hearted, given the high stakes. One of these was gay activist Terence Weldon. Writing after the vote at the blog “Queering the Church ,” he said: “the really interesting thing about the Catholic bishops and NY gay marriage is not how vigorously they fought against it (as the headlines would have it), but how lukewarm this opposition was overall, and how calm they have been in response.” Weldon pointed out that of 21 bishops in the state, he could only think of two who had taken any public steps to fight the gay “marriage” law - Archbishop Timothy Dolan and Bishop Nicholas DiMazio. Overall he described the response of the bishops to the passage of the law as “muted and moderate.” It is a puzzling ques