Man in same-sex marriage wants to keep parish posts

Tuesday, April 16th, 2013

An openly homosexual man who was removed from his positions of reader and religious-education instructor in his New York parish after he entered into a same-sex marriage is petitioning to be reinstated.

Nicholas Coppola has presented a petition signed by 18,000 people to Bishop William Murphy of Rockville Center diocese.

The diocese released a statement saying it “respects those who may have signed a petition” but that it cannot change Church teaching and expects others to respect that position.

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