San Francisco parish cancels talk by ‘gay’ priest following outcry against blasphemous statements
The rainbow flag waving in the wind at San Francisco's Castro District San Francisco, California (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Following an outcry from concerned Catholics, a San Francisco Catholic parish located in the city’s predominantly homosexual Castro district has canceled a scheduled talk by a self-identified “gay” priest who has spoken of “Jesus as gay.” However, the cancellation leaves many more questions unanswered about the ongoing scandals occurring at the “LGBT-affirming” Most Holy Redeemer parish. Donal Godfrey, a Jesuit who, according to the National Catholic Reporter , personally identifies as “gay,” asks in his book, Gays and Grays, “Is it less appropriate for gays to imagine Jesus as gay than for African Christians to picture him as black, Asian Christians as Asian?” “If God must become Asian or African, then God is also in some sense queer and at work in the queer community,” writes Godfrey, who also states, “The gospel must always be inculturated into ev...