{"id":12902,"date":"2012-08-15T12:59:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T16:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=12902"},"modified":"2012-08-15T13:00:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T17:00:11","slug":"father-brian-wasnt-educated-about-the-importance-of-drag-queens-in-the-gay-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2012\/08\/father-brian-wasnt-educated-about-the-importance-of-drag-queens-in-the-gay-community\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Father Brian wasn\u2019t educated about the importance of drag queens in the gay community&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2012\/08\/sentences-that-only-make-sense-in-context\/\" target=\"_blank\">No Drag Queens<\/a>&#8221; story couldn&#8217;t get more ridiculous:<\/p>\n<p>But apparent dissension about the policy has arisen. Not only that, it seems to be an open question as to who is in charge at the renegade parish. On August 13 the\u00a0<em>S. F.<\/em>\u00a0<em>Examiner<\/em>published an article called \u201cFaux Pas Puts S.F. Holy Site in Fix\u201d by Carolyn Copeland.<\/p>\n<p>Copeland spoke to Michael Poma, the business manager at Most Holy Redeemer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c\u2026 although church Business Manager Michael Poma acknowledged that Pastor Brian Costello did tell members of the Castro Country Club that they could not hold their event if drag queens were scheduled to attend, Poma said he quickly reversed his decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Father Brian wasn\u2019t educated about the importance of drag queens in the gay community,\u2019 Poma said. \u2018Once it was explained to him, he said they were welcome to attend as long as their behavior was church-appropriate.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChurch officials now say the new policy is not a prohibition against drag queens, but rather an end to all one-time events that do not originate at the church. Poma said the ban applies to all outside events \u2014 gay or straight \u2014 including weddings, parties or fundraisers. The church is still planning to hold its own events, including 12-step programs, suppers for the homeless and AIDS support groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018This is not a ban on drag queens or an insult to the gay community whatsoever,\u2019 Poma said. \u2018In the church hall there have been issues with weddings and other groups, so we decided to put an end to them altogether. We are part of the community here and to think that we\u2019re banning drag queens is obnoxious and ridiculous.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cal-catholic.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/14\/to-think-that-were-banning-drag-queens-is-obnoxious-and-ridiculous\/\" target=\"_blank\">California Catholic Daily<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanctepater.com\/2012\/08\/to-think-that-were-banning-drag-queens.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sancte Pater<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if the &#8220;No Drag Queens&#8221; story couldn&#8217;t get more ridiculous: But apparent dissension about the policy has arisen. Not only that, it seems to be an open question as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12905,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12902\/revisions\/12905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}