Rainbow Sash Alliance To Descend on Churches on Pentacost Sunday

by Susan Marie Kovalinsky | May 20, 2010 at 09:10 am

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The Rainbow Sash Alliance , a Global Catholic LGBT outreach program urging the Catholic Church to get progressive on matters of human sexuality, will descend on churches this Pentacost Sunday

Those who support the Rainbow Sash Movement are already concerned about the biased reporting which has preceded this Sunday's conflict:

RSM’s third example of “biased” reporting is to be found at Catholic Online [www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=36573].

RSM’s own words are used in the reporting, which its authors characterize as “defiant.”

Among the group’s efforts with the Catholic Church is to redefine marriage to include same sex unions, and to be able to take communion as openly gay , lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons.

The organization has also come under fire from Renew America.

At the core of the conflict, seems to lie the divide between progressive Catholics and Christians, and their more progressive brethren:

It's funny how the more you seek to avoid confrontations, the more they seem to find you. For back in Chicago, we find our beleaguered Francis Cardinal George, fresh off his refusal to publicly refute the heretical Easter homily of the archdiocese's personal plague, the Rev. Michael "Flim-Flam" Pfleger, is now faced with the daunting task of withstanding the full frontal assault of the city's most dangerous and destructive Gay Gang, otherwise known as the Rainbow Sash Movement.

The difference is that this time, with the possible confiscation and desecration of the Holy Eucharist at stake, the man this radical group calls "one of the generals in the war against gay families" knows that there is no turning back.

Journalist Tom O'Toole of the conservative Renew America blog, implies that gays ought to join their Episcopalian, Lutheran, and Methodist churches, and that it is only a "lust for publicity and for public power" which makes these Sashers - whom O'Toole calls "the most dangerous Gay Gang" - go after the Catholic Church.

Of course, many gays were raised in the Catholic , such as the renowned gay activist Andrew Sullivan.

But O'Toole sees danger and destruction of first principles in the movement, and recommends that the more unruly sashers be arrested and sent to jail.