Church Bars Trans Politician From Relative’s Wedding
Church Bars Trans Politician From Relative’s Wedding
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff Posted: November 8, 2007 - 5:00 pm ET
(Rome) An Italian couple has been told the bride’s cousin cannot attend the wedding because she is transsexual, supports gay rights and is a critic of the Catholic Church. Vladimir Luxuria was to have been a bridesmaid at the wedding, to take place this weekend at an ancient chapel in Foggia, in southern Italy.
Italian media report that the chapel’s priest told the couple that it has a choice to make: either they disinvite Luxuria or they do not marry.
The priest, identified as a Fr Francesco, said Luxuria does not represent “family values”.
November 11, 2007 at 9:03 am
Wonderful! Loving one’s transgender sibling and including her in your wedding and your life doesn’t represent family values, but treating her badly, throwing her out of the family and making her feel horrible is? God will surely be wondering where she went wrong in letting the Catholic Chruch take such an unchristian turn toward ignorance, fear and hatefulness.
Or is it that Jesus knows that eventually waking up some day and seeing the pain it causes to His children, and the error of its ways, is maybe the only way the church will ever learn. God and Jesus know that the church has once again lost its way, as it did in the Nazi era in Europe.
Keep forgetting that God has all the time and patience in the world to wait for Catholic clergy to wake up and see they missed the boat that Christ saled on. So sad what they do to others while they are ‘getting it,’ though. Didn’t Christ say, “Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn and you will not be condemned?’ - Vivian
November 11, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Yeah, it’s pretty awful. The priest is making a political statement there.
The fact that a notorious transphobe is advising the Vatican on trans matters just makes it that much worse - there won’t be any acceptance as long as people like him have a voice and the people who hire him prefer to hear what he has to say.
December 2, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Don’t expect the Catholic Church to change soon, but change it will. The truth is always more powerful than bigotry and lies. I am a member of a liberal Catholic parish. I share my musical gifts generously and am well respected and loved in my parish. I also serve in a prison ministry which can be quite a challenge due to the amount of fundamentalist influence in the prison system. The church has a history of persecuting people during their lifetime, only to realize later that the Holy Spirit was working through them. There is a long line of people who’s ideas were adopted and who are held in esteem even though they were ostracized during their lifetimes. Didn’t the same thing happen to the Lord? I think the Pharisees will always be with us. The Devil works through the egos of those who practice the law without the heart.