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Rainbow Sash movement plans Pentecost challenge to US bishops May 23, 2006
Gay-rights activists from the Rainbow Sash movement have announced plans to provoke a showdown with Catholic bishops in major American cities on Pentecost Sunday once again this year, by attending Mass and presenting themselves for Communion while wearing their distinctive sashes.
The activists will be wearing rainbow sashes, the group says, to protest "homophobia" within the Catholic Church. The protests have become annual events at cathedrals in several US cities. "Some bishops have welcomed us in the past, and we are thankful for their welcome."
Last year on Pentecost Sunday, Rainbow Sash demonstrators were refused Communion by Cardinal Francis George of Chicago and Archbishop Harry Flynn of St. Paul, but welcomed by Cardinal Roger Mahony in Los Angeles. In 2004 Archbishop Flynn had allowed the Rainbow Sash protestors to receive Communion, but he reversed his policy after receiving direct orders from the Congregation for Divine Worship, indicating that the demonstrators are "showing their opposition to Church teaching on a major issue of natural law and so disqualify themselves from being given Holy Communion."
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