In the first, and smaller, case, the bishop of the Springfield diocese last week called in police and vowed to bar the cathedral door to anyone who showed up with a gay rainbow sash for a threatened rosary protest, in which participants would say their Hail Marys and Our Fathers in a prayer for legal gay marriage in Illinois. Such activity would constitute “blasphemy,” disputing God's word in his own house, Bishop Thomas John Paprocki declared.
To the extent anyone was going to disrupt services—I know of no evidence of that—the bishop was perfectly correct. But calling the prayer itself “blasphemy” doesn't make sense. ….
ultimatum Cardinal George issued last summer to the Illinois Coalition on Immigrant and Refugee Rights. The group mostly is known for its views on U.S. immigration reform. But, for its own reasons, its board decided to endorse the gay-marriage bill. The archdiocese reacted by threatening to cut off hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to 11 smallish community groups that are part of the coalition unless they quit the group
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