Posts Tagged ‘Lesbian’

Church must pay $216,000 to pregnant lesbian teacher

Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

Although the archdiocese of Cincinnati has been ordered to pay $NZ216,000 to a lesbian teacher fired after she became pregnant through artificial insemination, a spokesman says it has no intention to end morality requirements. “For the archdiocese, this case has always been about an employee violating a legally enforceable contract that she signed,” said communications Read more

Pacific Conference of Churches unmoved by NZ marriage law change

Friday, April 19th, 2013

The Pacific Conference of Churches, which represents 38 Protestant and Catholic Churches in the Pacific region, says it’s unmoved by the passage, in New Zealand, of the same gender marriage bill General secretary Francois Pihaartae has told Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat in his view, same sex marriage remains against God’s will. “Pacific churches are very much conservative. And Read more

Suspended priest: “It was the only thing a faithful priest could do”

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

The Washington priest who denied a Lesbian the opportunity of Holy Communion at her mother’s funeral, says it was the only thing he as a faithful priest could do. As reported in CathNews, Fr Marcel Guarnizo denied Holy Communion to Barbara Johnson, a known lesbian in a relationship at her mother’s funeral, in a statement the Read more

Priest hits back over suspension for denying lesbian Communion

Friday, March 16th, 2012

A Washington priest who denied a Lesbian the opportunity of  Holy Communion at her mother’s funeral, says his suspension has “everything to do” with his decision to deny Barbara Johnson Communion. According to the Washington Post, when Johnson approached Fr Marcel Guarnizo for Communion, Guarnizo put his hand over the Host and said, “I can’t give you Read more

Pride and Prejudice: The uneasy relationship between gays and lesbians and their church

Friday, February 24th, 2012

On a clear, windy Sunday in March 2010, Father William Breslin told his parishioners at Sacred Heart of Jesus in Boulder, Colorado why the parish school would not re-enroll a child of same-sex parents for the coming school year. “I hate the fact that I had to make a choice between being loving and protecting Read more

Australian sperm donor no longer a father

Friday, August 5th, 2011

A Sydney man could be the first Australian sperm donor to have his name forcibly removed from his child’s birth certificate. The man, who has not missed one day of contact with his 9 year old daughter, pleaded before a NSW judge not to agree the request by the birth mother’s lesbian ex-partner. “She knows Read more

Donor dad vs. lesbian parents

Friday, May 27th, 2011

When Australian, Neil Richards answered  a lesbian couple’s advertisement in a magazine to use his sperm to conceive, he said they agreed he should be involved in his daughter’s life but exactly how was never decided. Richards, the “donor dad”, provided sperm to Jesse Star, paid $5000 for her fertility treatments, paid for the midwife, Read more