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It's traditional during a wedding for the officiating party to ask if anyone objects to the marriage, but the Roman Catholic Church is apparently less welcoming of opposition to its own stand on marriage. When freelance journalist Chuck Colbert interrupted a March 28 Mass at St. John the Evangelist Church in Canton, Mass., to show his outrage at the church's display of an eight-minute video against same-sex marriage, he was accused of trying to "destroy marriage and the family.""It was scandalous," Colbert said of the video, which claimed that civil unions "discriminate against the poor" and encouraged parishioners to campaign against gay marriage. "I got up and said, 'Excuse this interruption, but I'm a gay Catholic man who is going to be married on May 20.'"
An in-service argument ensued. Church officials called the police, but no arrests were made.
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| Title Annotation: | Catholicism; journalist protests Catholic Church video against same-sex marriage |
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| Author: | Barrett, Jon |
| Publication: | The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) |
| Article Type: | Brief Article |
| Geographic Code: | 1U1MA |
| Date: | May 11, 2004 |
| Words: | 141 |
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