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Title: Catholic Leader: Men, Rule Roost - And Your Gals
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news.bostonherald.com
URL Source: http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=129057
Published: Mar 5, 2006
Author: By Marie Szaniszlo
Post Date: 2006-03-05 12:46:11 by Mind_Virus
Keywords: Catholic, Leader:, Roost
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Catholic Leader: Men, Rule Roost - And Your Gals By Marie Szaniszlo Sunday, March 5, 2006 - Updated: 09:33 AM EST Men are the ‘‘natural” heads of their families and should persuade their wives to give up birth control, quit their jobs and home-school their children, a keynote speaker at the annual Boston Catholic Men’s Conference said yesterday. ‘‘The first thing we have to do is get you off the birth control,” Sean Forrest instructed his audience of 5,000 men to tell their wives. Next, the youth minister and contemporary Catholic musician told his audience at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center that it should ‘‘devise a plan to get them to stay home with the kids.” ‘‘They want that strength and security from you,” he said, drawing a standing ovation at the close of his speech. ‘‘They might resent it at first . . . (but) that is the natural position for a man: to lead your family to Christ.” Forrest accused ‘‘feminist women in the church” of ‘‘watering down” its teachings on such issues, noting that 10 percent of women who hear him speak ‘‘get up in a huff and call me a sexist pig.” ‘‘I say, ‘You’ll be back,’ ” he said, sending ripples of laughter through the all-male audience. Forrest also told the men to ‘‘learn the truth about homosexuality,” suggesting that they read a book called ‘‘A Parent’s Guide to Preventing Homosexuality.” The conference concluded with a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Sean P. O’Malley. The cardinal-designate joined the state’s three other Roman Catholic bishops last week in suggesting that the state exempt Catholic social service agencies from a law barring them from discriminating against same-sex couples when placing children in adoptive homes. The bishops’ statement prompted eight of 42 Massachusetts Catholic Charities board members to resign in protest. On Friday, O’Malley addressed 3,300 women at the Boston Catholic Women’s Conference, which organizers added after holding the first men’s conference last year. ‘‘After that, the women raised a fuss,” said Marion Rudolph of Peabody. ‘‘As much as people don’t want to admit it, there are women’s issues and men’s issues in the church,” she said.
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#1. To: Mind_Virus (#0)
The first solid thinking I've heard from the church in decades. Good job, Padre.
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