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Berkeley, Calif., Sep 29, 2009 / 03:36 am (CNA).- Scrutiny of a group of protesters at Bishop Salvatore Cordileone’s visit to the Jesuit School of Theology at the Graduate Theological Union last week has put the spotlight on a variant of the Rosary designed by homosexual activists to contemplate what they call the “Relational Mysteries.”

The Bishop of Oakland's visit was intended to commemorate the merging of the Jesuit school with Santa Clara University.

The California Catholic Daily reports that the visit’s protesters, about twenty in number, included Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker, president of the Starr King (Unitarian Universalist) School of Ministry; Rev. Roland Stringfellow, the organizer of the GTU’s Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies; Rev. Sanna Reinholtzen, a Lutheran minister; and doctoral student Eugene McMullan, apparently a Catholic.

McMullan is the founder of a group called Catholics for Marriage Equality. In August, the group held a “Pray for Equality” event outside St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco, at which they were to recite the “Relational Mysteries."

According to the California Catholic Daily, McMullan and a Rev. Jim Mitulski taught a two-part class on “Praying the Queer Rosary” at an event for the New Spirit/MCC Church of Berkeley. The announcement for the class said it is “based on stories from the bible [sic] which depict Queer Families or Relationships.”

Another event was hosted at Berkeley’s Newman Hall – Holy Spirit Parish, which announced a Rosary “in solidarity with LGBT Catholics” facilitated by McMullan and Mike Campos, another doctoral student at the Graduate Theological Union.
The “Relational Mysteries” are listed as Fidelity - Ruth’s pledge to Naomi; Grief – The Parting of David and Jonathan; Intercession – Esther intercedes for her people; Restoration – the raising of Lazarus; and Discipleship – the two encounter Christ on the road to Emmaus.

The California Catholic Daily also reports a habit among religious homosexual activists of interpreting the relationship between Ruth and Naomi as a homosexual one.

Episcopal priest John Kirkeley, a nominee for Bishop of Los Angeles, has characterized the relationship between Saul, David and Jonathon as a “Biblical Love Triangle,” while Fr. Donal Godfrey, executive director of University Ministry at the University of San Francisco, in a homily likened the story of Lazarus to “the call to come out.”

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Published by: furious
hanford/california/usa 12/21/2009 07:50 PM EST

Blasphemous. Everyone knows that Ruth and Naomi weren't girlfriends, they were just best friends!!!

Published by: Mark T
San Antonio/TX/USA 10/30/2009 07:56 AM EST

When I first read this, I literally wept. I wept for Our Blessed Mother. How can we not remember her continued efforts on our behalf? She is our greatest Advocate and Intercessor, "fallen humanity's single, solitary boast"; her rosary our greatest weapon over evil. Then, it occured to me. What these deviants are engaged in is "self-referentially" destructive and will literally lead to their own demise. We cannot forget the image of the prostitute in the Book of Revelation that drank the cup of the blood of Christ and DIED -- it acts as poison to sin and sinners. This act of perversion will have the same effect. Poor souls. They are committing a spiritual suicide and cannot even recognize it.

Published by: Kevin
Burbank, Ca 10/11/2009 11:01 AM EST

Rate: Excellent

Being a gay man myself and Catholic, please folks don't assume ALL people who are gay are like this. I am not. They are angry and deeply wounded. Pray for them! I can assure you, Jesus and Mary look upon these people not with hatred or anger, but with deep sadness because of the deep love they have for all of us! As Jesus said so well on the cross: father forgive them, they no not what they do! And that really is the key to remember in times like this.

Published by: Kurt
Illinois 10/10/2009 04:32 AM EST

So we are not to condemn those who misinterpret the commands of our Lord, we are to educate those of our Lord’s Word in its entirety! This is the meaning of evangelism! We are to love ALL of the Lord’s children as He does because we are created in His image. It’s just too bad He gave us freedom of choice to allow us to be sinful! We are born into sin and as Christ followers we are to teach others of our Lord’s commands! On top of that, we are to constantly learn of what He has put in His educational books (The one Bible) that we are supposed to read daily!

Published by: Kurt
Illinois 10/10/2009 04:29 AM EST

The Bible is God breathed! His Word is set in stone! We are not to change it to fit our needs! We are to use it as is for our laws to follow! I don’t know if this church still exists, but there was a church that interpreted the verse; God created all plants and animals for man, and that was their excuse to smoke marijuana in church! They fail to read more of the scriptures to see that we are the body of Christ and we are not to damage our/His body with impurities! This is the same thing that the gays are doing! They are taking certain scriptural verses to interpret to their needs as Satan has done to Eve with the apple and also what he tried to do to Jesus in the dessert! Unfortunately for Satan, Jesus is of God, The Angel of The Lord, so He didn’t fall for his temptations as we do! So as for the rosary, I don’t know how important it is in our faith as a Christ follower, but I do know that homosexuality is against our Lord! It is written in both the old and new testament that we are not to have sex with the same sex! So to alter the Lord’s Word to allow what he has breathed to us in His word as an entirety is to fall to Satan’s path and not our Lord God’s path that He has made very plane to us throughout His Word!

Published by: Benet
Wembley 10/08/2009 01:03 PM EST

Part of Father Donal Godfrey's Homily given at Most Holy Redeemer Parish, San Francisco, on the 5th Sunday of Lent, March 9, 2008. "Bill Huebsch sees the process by which LGBTQ Christians journey to greater and deeper union with God as similar to Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead: Lesbians and gay men will tell you that the truth is this: sexuality is a gift from God and homosexuality is one expression of that gift. That’s the truth that has set so many lesbians and gay men free at last. And in this coming out gay men and lesbians often say that, for the first time, it is now clear how God touches us with eternal truth. There are those who would prefer that the stone not be removed from the tomb for fear of the stench. And coming out is a process, a painful one often, and as with Lazarus it involves the support of all those who help unbind us." This is a gross misinterpretation of the words of Our Lord for the purpose of "normalising" homosexuals "coming out" as gays. It suggests that Our Lord himself was Gay. Why do the Jesuit authorities discipline this priest? Does he have no shame to see these words published on the Internet? Am I missing something here? Have Gay men now taken over the Society of Jesus in the US?

Published by: tammy
Raleigh NC 10/08/2009 11:54 AM EST

For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

Published by: Jason
Ohio 10/04/2009 02:11 PM EST

Rate: Regular

I don't see why everyone keeps pointing to Paul. He is not Jesus and didn't even know Jesus. His teachings belay his own homophobia and misogyny. I wish that people would read the words of Jesus with the same reverence they give to Paul. God never condemned homosexuality. Jesus said that LOVE is the whole of the Law. If two people Love each other and are honest about what they feel and what they do I believe God blesses and smiles upon them. Stop judging others and start judging yourselves.

Published by: Marlene
Toronto Canada 10/03/2009 09:48 PM EST

Why on earth does CNA thrive on such sickening stories? This kind of thing should be ignored! PlEASE! Concentrate on our true Catholic faith information!

Published by: Rinda
UK 10/02/2009 04:56 PM EST

The Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is THE weapon against evil! Our Blessed Lady 'is as terrible as an army in battle aray' who will crush the head of the serpent! It seems to me that satan must be getting pretty desperate to set about manipulating and perverting minds to attack the rosary in this way. It's the equivalent of playing baseball with an atomic bomb when Mass and The Rosary is blasphemed. The people who are doing this think they are being big and clever when actually the devil has them like puppets on strings and he's making them dance to his warped and distasteful tune. We, ourselves, need to do - and keep doing - what Our Blessed Lady says and PRAY FOR SINNERS AND DO PENANCE.

Published by: Canisius
NY NY 10/02/2009 01:49 PM EST

It is way pass the time to turn words into action, action into anger, and anger into violence. May it happen soon.

Published by: Margret
USA 10/02/2009 09:51 AM EST

It is time to excommunicate anyone that "claims" to be Catholic with this mindset. To use "Catholics for Marriage Equality" as a name is enough to sue in civil court. They have no business using "Catholic" in their name because that is fraud and total misrepresentation of what the Catholic Church teaches. Again it is now time to start excommunicating these deviants publicly. Advertising it everywhere so that the faithful will not be scandalized or drawn away from the "authentic teaching" of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

Published by: James
Memphis, TN 10/02/2009 08:59 AM EST

Such perversions exist in every age, but ours is the first age in which large numbers of Bishops REFUSE to act to protect the faithful from even the most egregiously filthy heresies. So how corrupt are the Bishops who tolerate such prancing without issuing excomunications and orders for public rebukes?

Published by: DLL
scituate mass 10/02/2009 02:57 AM EST

This probably won't get printed but I have to write it anyway. The GBLT people are deliberately trying to destroy the Holy Catholic Church and the legal system Of the entire USA. They are always wrong and only want it their way. Their way is Wrong!

Published by: Dan
Santa Fe 10/01/2009 09:59 PM EST

Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.

Published by: Ray Mac
Ny, NY 10/01/2009 07:45 PM EST

People living in such sin (homosexuality) no longer have the ability to see the beauty and truth in relationships built on pure love without stain, in union with the Holy Spirit. They see the world through the mire of their own muck!

Published by: lyndon acosta
minglanilla/cebu/philippines 10/01/2009 07:24 PM EST

And they will confess their sins when they think they are about to die!

Published by: lyndonaacosta
minglanilla/cebu/philippines 10/01/2009 07:19 PM EST

And they will do a kennedy thing stand on abortion and same sex then when about to die confess your sins.

Published by: Helene from Canada
Ontario Canada 10/01/2009 03:24 PM EST

Are we supposed to take these heretics seriously? Best thing is to ignore them as the false prophets they are.

Published by: Faith
Atlanta,GA, USA 10/01/2009 02:16 PM EST

HOW SICK CAN THIS BE TO HAVE A ROSARY BASED OFF MORTAL SIN!!!!! ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS READ THE BOOK OF ROMANS !!! GOD FORBIDS THIS TYPE OF RELATIONSHIP ARE STATES IN ROMANS THAT YOU WILL GO TO HELL FOR THIS... IT WAS NEVER INTENDED TO THE SAME SEX TO BE TOGETHER OR GOD WOULD HAD MADE ADAM A MALE NOT A WOMAN !! JUST BECAUSE PEOPLE IN THE BIBLE DID IT DOESNT MEAN GOD APPROVED OF IT.... SADAM AND GORMORAH ( NOT CORRECT SPELLING ) BUT WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPEN TO THAT TOWN FOR THESE FORBIDDEN BEHAVIORS... IT IS SATAN INSIDE THE MINDS OF THESE INDIVIDUALS... PLEASE PRAY FOR YOURSELF TO BE SAVED BY THE GRACE OF GOD AND REPENT FROM THIS TERRIBLE SIN....BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE

Published by: John Charles
Orofino/Idaho/U.S.A. 10/01/2009 01:33 PM EST

This is so perverted. Almost unspeakable, yet blasphemous.

Published by: REESAN
BC 10/01/2009 01:12 PM EST

AFTER READING THIS I CONTINUE TO ASK THE QUESTION, LORD, HOW IS THIS ALLOWED TO CONTINUE AND WHAT WILL YOUR ANSWER TO THIS TRAVESTY BE? OUR GOD IS SO VERY PATIENT WITH US WHO WILL NOT LISTEN OR SEE THE TRUTH BUT CREATE THEIR OWN ERRONEOUS VERSION OF IT. WITHOUT REPENTANCE I FEAR THEY WILL BE DOOMED.

Published by: Buzzy Gran
Van Buren, Arkansas, USA 10/01/2009 12:12 PM EST

I will wager that the majority of the gays who are saying this gay rosary are even Catholic. If they are I would suggest that they go back to the original rosary and start praying that. Regarding Godfrey's view of the story of Lazarus, I do not know if I should just laugh at how stupid it is and sounds or pray a real rosary for him. But I guess none of this should really surprise me as we are talking about the Bay Area.

Published by: Joe
Massachusetts 10/01/2009 11:29 AM EST

The Gospel is being twisted and perverted to promote more and more deviant behavior. These "priests" with their modified Rosary are leading people down the path to perdition. It's no wonder St. Paul calls the Catholic Church "the pillar of truth".

Published by: Nadia Poqui
La Mesa, CA 10/01/2009 11:08 AM EST

This is utter stupidity, and the homosexual agenda knows it. The mere fact they are creating this mockery demonstrates their cunning maliciousness.

Published by: Sharon Malchow
Fond du Lac, WI USA 10/01/2009 10:28 AM EST

Our Holy Mother Mary will not tolerate insults to her rosary, so this so-called "rosary" of sorts will not be used except by more of those confused in the truth offered by God.

Published by: Jeffrey Winslow
N.H. 10/01/2009 09:13 AM EST

Gay extremists are constantly on the lookout for ways to manipulate the bible to a gay end. It is perverse. Their recreated stories fool nobody. It just shows the level they will sink to in order to change uneducated minds.

Published by: gjkeeper
Woodbury, MN 55125 10/01/2009 09:00 AM EST

What I fail to comprehend is that if these people do not go along with Catholic teachings, why don’t they just form a religion of their own instead of trying to bring down the Catholic Church? If they want to be sinful, why do they insist on justifying it by claiming to be Catholic? Absurd!

Published by: Tanya Wersinger
Greenville 10/01/2009 08:55 AM EST

blasphamy, poor souls

Published by: Linda
MO 10/01/2009 08:32 AM EST

for the love of mike ... leave the Holy Rosary alone. Anyone can pray it just like it is ... the way Our Blessed Mother taught us. There's no discrimination w/ Our Blessed Mother.

Published by: Anita
Florida,USA 09/30/2009 09:33 PM EST

This is a deliberate distortion of Biblical truth. At the end of the Bible, in the Book of Revelation, it says that anyone who changes the words of this book or the meaning, would be in serious danger.(Paraphrased)

Published by: Mary Anne
Faribault, MN. 55021 09/30/2009 05:17 PM EST

Blasphemy!

Published by: Phil
Nashville, TN 09/30/2009 04:13 PM EST

"...Eugene McMullan, apparently a Catholic..." No. Just saying you're a Catholic does not make it so. It must be lived. And, supporting homosexual marriage...something the Bible AND the Church are crystal clear in condemning...is NOT in keeping with Catholic teaching. Period. Saul, David, and Jonathon in a "love triangle"?? Lazarus?? Ruth and Naomi?? The men on the road to Emmaus? Oh, please. That is so pathetic. Apparently, to "progressive" minded people, any time two or more persons of the same sex walk or talk together, that means they have sex with each other. Very sad and very, very deceived.

Published by: ja
t'v,ga,usa 09/30/2009 03:45 PM EST

I think that some of these folks might look at the story of Lot in Sodom and what happened there to all the people who were living in the sinful city. Sodom and Gomorrah were wiped off the face of the earth due to homosexualty running over! Prayer is what is needed not "coming out". Thank God that He is merciful.

Published by: connie o'neill
Canada 09/30/2009 03:12 PM EST

This is absolutely obscene!!! Disgusting!

Published by: Chris Faulds
France 09/30/2009 02:57 PM EST

Well this is stupid.

Published by: Anne
NY USA 09/30/2009 02:25 PM EST

This story soooo brings to mind the last lines of the Book of Apocalypse (Chapter 22)- 18 For I testify to every one that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book: If any man shall add to these things, God shall add unto him the plagues written in this book. 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from these things that are written in this book. 20 He that giveth testimony of these things, saith, Surely I come quickly: Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. 21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Published by: Rose
Pittsburgh, PA 09/30/2009 02:23 PM EST

And in what way will this distortion of the Holy Rosary please the heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, to whom it is dedicated? She lived a chaste, holy, sanctified life according to her calling. Were these same people to pray the Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious and Luminous mysteries of the rosary, they might actually experience a conversion of heart. The rosary is a beautiful, powerful prayer given to us by the Blessed Mother herself. Please find another way to justify your sinful beliefs.

Published by: Maryellyn Maher
West Chester, PA, USA 09/30/2009 02:19 PM EST

"For, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. 23 And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of a corruptible man and of birds, and of fourfooted beasts and of creeping things." " Wherefore, God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness: to dishonour their own bodies among themselves." Romans 1, 22- 24 It is obvious these people are interpreting the Bible according to the confusion and disorders of their minds.

Published by: Greg Cwik
Buffalo NY 09/30/2009 12:58 PM EST

I assume that when you know you are living an immoral lifestyle you try to rationalize that it is ok in your minds and by doing so you try and attack and belittle the people behind the truth such as the catholic church and the things that they hold sacred. Your homosexual lifestyle is wrong and you must realize that no matter what you do or say the Catholic Church will not accept your lifestyle. You need to repent, abstain from your impure and immoral sexual behavior and accept our savior and Lord, Jesus Christ into your life. I will continue to recite the holy and scared mysteries of the rosary and ask our Blessed Mother to intercede for you and ask our Lord to show you the true path to happiness. God bless you.

Published by: Tess
PA 09/30/2009 10:37 AM EST

When sinners take a holy tradition and mold it with human vice to justify their sinfulness, I mourn. May the Blessed Virgin Mary intercede on behalf of all humans enslaved by the demons of pride, disobedience, homosexuality, pedophilia, zoophilia and bisexuality. May she put her mantle of protection around all homosexuals, pedophiles, zoophiles, and bisexuals that their conscience can be awakened by the Holy Spirit who can guide them to a sexual ecstasy more holy and spiritual then what they are now partaking of through masturbation, sodomy, vibrators, pornography, multiple sex partners, sex with children, sex with animals, and other deviant sexual activities. This also includes heterosexuals who struggle with their own lusts for unfruitful sexual activity.

Published by: William
Cleveland OH USA 09/30/2009 10:08 AM EST

Homosexuality, a biological reality, exists now, so it had to exist then as well. Love one another doesn't specify the opposite sex. Religion would do well to encourage positive emotion, not the negative.

Published by: Kay Jaworski
Baltimore, MD USA 09/30/2009 09:59 AM EST

How sad! Yet another mocking of the Catholic Faith from those unwilling to live the Christian Faith. It's not rocket science! What was sinful in the time of Jesus has not changed. What was considered sinful in the times of Moses has not changed. God doesn't change! He asks that we be good and live up to the laws he has set down. PLain and simple. But why the blatant mocking of one religion? I'll tell you why...because the Catholic Church hasn't waivered on its stand regarding sins of the flesh in over 2000 years. You want respect, give respect.

Published by: helen
australia 09/30/2009 09:48 AM EST

It is a good thing to be mindfull of all minority groups in an open and free society, however, the above article has stirred an anger against the Gay community that I have never had before. To desercrate the word of God, so as to make it fit into a devient life style, and perverting the holy rosery, that is a meditation on the life of Jesus the Christ, is an outrage that deserves the strongest condemnation In any democratic society, decisions and laws are based on the mindset of the majority, the reason we live in such democratic countries is compliment of christianity, the very society that has afforded the opportunity for minority groups such as the gay and lesbian groups to live as they please, is now absolutly under attack, because they want to try to force those who follow Christ to cast aside their beliefs, and in its place pick up gay pride. I do not have a need to force my beliefs on to others nor do I appreciate others trying to force their belief onto me, and that is what they r doing, sorry but the bible and church is what it is, the only way it can accept such a devient behavour is to change the word of God, and for 2,000 years it has remained the same, grow up, stop acing like spoiled brats that cant get their own way, and enjoy the freedom that u have and stop trying to take that same freedom from others.

Published by: John Rafferty
Pt Pleasant, N.J./USA 09/30/2009 08:44 AM EST

It sickens me and what's more very blasphemous to intone the Hail Mary and other prayers of the rosary of our Lady to these "relational mysteries". These people have a right to do as they please,BUT PLEASE LEAVE ALMIGHTY GOD AND OUR BLESSED MOTHER OUT OF THIS!

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