Gay rights: a protest resignation in New York over Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s anti-gay stance
New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan joins fellow volunteers distributing food at a breadline at St. Francis Assisi on Ash Wednesday on Feb 22.
NEW YORK – And the day before Easter, too.
An official in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York — the largest in the US — has quit in protest over the anti-gay views of Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York and president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, according to The Associated Press.
Joseph Amodeo said today he had resigned because he had “had enough” of a disagreement with Cardinal Dolan over charitable work with homeless youths who are not heterosexual, the news agency said. Amodeo had been a member of the junior board of Catholic Charities.
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According to the AP, Carl Siciliano of the Ali Forney Center for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth wrote in a letter to Cardinal Dolan that his "loud and strident voice against the acceptance of LGBT people” fostered “a climate where parents turn on their own children.”
The AP said that, according to Amodeo, when Dolan replied that he was applying Church doctrine, Amodeo quit.
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CBS said today that in an interview that is to air tomorrow Dolan says politics in the US benefits from the presence of religion.
“Politics…only benefits when religion, when morals, when faith has a place there. I think the American [people], the public square in the United States is always enriched whenever people approach it, when they're inspired by their deepest held convictions,” Dolan reportedly says.