In an emotionally charged meeting Wednesday, parishioners of Holy Family Catholic Church in northwest suburban Inverness voiced opinions over the firing of their longtime music director, who lost his job after announcing his engagement to his male partner on social media.
Many of the roughly 700 people who attended appeared to support Colin Collette, who received a standing ovation when he entered the sanctuary. ....
The church pastor, the Rev. Terry Keehan, organized Wednesday’s meeting “in light of the many and varied emotions that so many of you have expressed,” he wrote in Sunday’s church bulletin.
He called it a “Town Hall Meeting for Listening and Respect” and described it as an opportunity to voice emotions about Collette’s departure. ....
In the bulletin, Keehan also wrote that he was concerned how the various emotions affect “our larger community.”
“It is truly a very complicated and complex situation,” his message read.
Not complicated in the least. The church doesn't want to employ gay people who marry. And, the law says they don't have to--this man was a music director, and that's a ministry. End of story. So this is a pointless exercise. I'm not sure what the priest hoped to accomplish.
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Nice to see some pushback by the congregation.
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