{"id":4374,"date":"2011-07-18T13:23:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T17:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2011-07-18T10:31:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T14:31:38","slug":"did-ny-legislator-forget-to-mention-something-about-the-priest-who-lauded-his-same-sex-marriage-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/07\/did-ny-legislator-forget-to-mention-something-about-the-priest-who-lauded-his-same-sex-marriage-vote","title":{"rendered":"What did NY legislator not tell about &#8220;priest&#8221; who aplauded same-sex marriage vote?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When New York state Senator James Alesi announced to gay \u201cmarriage\u201d supporters recently that his priest \u201cembraced\u201d him at mass after he cast his vote for gay \u201cmarriage,\u201d he failed to mention one important point \u2013 his priest and his religious community have been excommunicated from the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went to Mass Sunday in my church and I was so warmly received,\u201d Alesi told attendees at an event sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign earlier this month. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what religion you are, but I know in my religion, when I went up to receive Communion, my priest embraced me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>However, the <em>New York Times<\/em> reports that Alesi belongs to Spiritus Christi Church, which broke with Rome in the 1990s \u201cin order to support gay men and lesbians,\u201d as well as female clergy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/what-ny-sen-alesi-didnt-say-priest-who-embraced-him-is-excommunicated\">CLICK HERE to read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When New York state Senator James Alesi announced to gay \u201cmarriage\u201d supporters recently that his priest \u201cembraced\u201d him at mass after he cast his vote for gay \u201cmarriage,\u201d he failed to mention one important point \u2013 his priest and his religious community have been excommunicated from the Catholic Church. \u201cI went to Mass Sunday in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48,970],"tags":[2245,38],"class_list":["post-4374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic","category-homosexual-marriage","tag-homosexual-marriage","tag-new-york"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What did NY legislator not tell about &quot;priest&quot; 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