Priest boycotts funeral

I’m going to make a few remarks about this:

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/02/26/priest-walks-out-of-womans-funeral-because-of-her-gay-daughter/

i) Given the writer’s slant, this may well be a very misleading or incomplete version of events.

ii) I’m not going to comment on the writer’s ignorant, atrocious theology.

iii) It’s always amusing when leftwing extremists accuse the other side of political extremism. Amusing that they are blind as bats to their own extremism.

iv) Assuming, for the sake of argument, that this account is reasonably accurate, the priest might be faulted for tactlessness. He was right on the merits, but this was the wrong occasion to be confrontational. (Cue: Job’s comforters.)

v) But even assuming the accuracy of the account (and I doubt how reliable it is), the daughter put the priest in a very awkward situation. Having provoked the incident, she didn’t leave the priest with any ideal options. Whatever he did was going to have downsides. He’s not responsible for the predicament she put him in.

vi) I also don’t know the content of her eulogy. If she exploited the captive audience to plug her LGBT agenda, then it’s understandable if he registered his protest by absenting himself from the propaganda. I don’t know that that’s what happened, but then, I doubt this account tells the whole story.

vii) The separation of church/state objection is preposterous. Apparently, this was a Catholic funeral, performed by a Catholic priest, in a Catholic church (or possibly the chapel of a funeral home). Even if we grant separation of church and state, a priest, performing a religious funeral, is hardly trespassing the (mythical) wall of separation when he conducts the service according to the policies of his denomination. For this event is taking place within a religious arena, within a religious context.