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Contact: Wayne Besen, Executive Director
Phone: 917-691-5118
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TWO Calls Cardinal Francis George?s Apology to the LGBT Community a Positive Development
We Called for His Resignation But Remorse Is a Good Start, Says TWO
CHICAGO ? Truth Wins Out commended Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Francis George today for apologizing to the LGBT community after he made intemperate remarks comparing the LGBT movement to the Ku Klux Klan.
?I am truly sorry for the hurt my remarks have caused,? George said in an interview with the Chicago Tribune. ?Particularly because we all have friends or family members who are gay and lesbian. This has evidently wounded a good number of people.? I have family members myself who are gay and lesbian, so it?s part of our lives. So I?m sorry for the hurt. When I was talking I was speaking out of fear that I have for the church?s liberty and I was reaching for an analogy which was very inappropriate for which I?m sorry. I didn?t realize the impact of what I was saying. ? Sometimes fear is a bad motivation.?
Truth Wins Out placed a full-page ad in last Sunday?s Chicago Tribune headlined ?Hey, Cardinal Francis George, Gay is not like the KKK.? TWO also started an online Change.org petition calling on George to step down that reached more than 5,400 signatures. Pressure continued to build with the Gay Liberation Network and the Rainbow Sash Movement planning to protest the Cardinal this weekend.
?We called for Cardinal George?s resignation but we think remorse is a positive step in the right direction,? said TWO?s Executive Director Wayne Besen. ?It is gratifying to see the Cardinal take personal responsibility for the hurt he has caused and we hope this incident leads to improving relations with the LGBT community.?
George?s offensive remarks first came during a dispute over the scheduled starting time of the annual gay pride parade in June. The event was originally set to begin at 10am, but a priest bitterly complained that the starting time would interfere with morning services. In an interview with Fox News in Chicago, Cardinal George said: ?You know, you don?t want the Gay Liberation Movement to morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan, demonstrating in the streets against Catholicism.?
Truth Wins Out (TWO) is a nonprofit that fights anti-LGBT religious extremism. TWO specializes in turning information into action by organizing, advocating and fighting for LGBT equality.
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