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Online Dump for Antigay Catholic DVDs


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Archbishop John Nienstedt

Catholic organizers in Minnesota have created a website to collect and protest the DVDs being distributed by their church to call for a ban on same-sex marriage in the state.

According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, “About six like-minded Catholics from various metro parishes launched the site ReturnTheDVD.org on Monday. Contending that the DVD deals with ‘misguided priorities,’ they said Tuesday that they are urging people to use the website to donate to causes that aid the poor.”

DVDs featuring Archbishop John Nienstedt are scheduled to start arriving Wednesday at the homes of 400,000 Catholics. The website creators say that the 18-minute DVD produced by the Minnesota Catholic Conference and funded by a $1 million private donation is a waste of resources.

According to the Star-Tribune, “They’re asking people to send them the DVDs in the next six to eight weeks. They said that they will deliver them to Nienstedt with a letter encouraging the bishops to focus on homelessness over other ‘misguided priorities.’”

ReturnTheDVD.org
also plans to partner with local artist Lucinda Naylor, who is using the DVDs to create an art project. Naylor was suspended from her part-time job at a Catholic church because of the protest sculpture she has planned.

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Reader Comments
  • Name: Jeffrey
    Date posted: 9/30/2010 6:36:53 AM
    Hometown: Albany

    Comment:

    Yes Davide...and you need to work on your english. A little therapy may help with your love of second class status.

  • Name: SteveMD2
    Date posted: 9/30/2010 2:00:26 AM
    Hometown: Baltimore

    Comment:

    DAVIDEs comment exactly follow the lines I hear from an ultra catholic I know here. He is a parrot for the church. And the love comment, don't hate us, we dont hate you is just another example of the old story from the church and from its friends in Nazi Germany................................. If you tell a lie often enough and outrageous enough, it will be seen as the truth. From the catholic who got hitler elected, Paul Joseph Goebbels. And its true about so many aspects of a church circling the wagons. While almost every country in Western euorpe has gay marriage or CUs, the asame thing is happening in Latin America etc. The only good thing that will eventually come out of the catholic church is their buildings used a museums to teach future generations about hattred in the name of God.

  • Name: SteveMD2
    Date posted: 9/30/2010 1:59:02 AM
    Hometown: Baltimore

    Comment:

    DAVIDEs comment exactly follow the lines I hear from an ultra catholic I know here. He is a parrot for the church. And the love comment, don't hate us, we dont hate you is just another example of the old story from the church and from its friends in Nazi Germany................................. If you tell a lie often enough and outrageous enough, it will be seen as the truth. From the catholic who got hitler elected, Paul Joseph Goebbels. And its true about so many aspects of a church circling the wagons. While almost every country in Western euorpe has gay marriage or CUs, the asame thing is happening in Latin America etc. The only good thing that will eventually come out of the catholic church is their buildings used a museums to teach future generations about hattred in the name of God.

  • Name: Sean
    Date posted: 9/30/2010 1:04:52 AM
    Hometown: Minneapolis

    Comment:

    1. It's shallow and ignorant to call heterosex marriage a natural marriage. It's same as calling a heterosexual person a natural person. So, if I am gay, am I not natural? 2. Many priests are homosexual themselves. It's a self-hate thing. Stop living lies.

  • Name: Sean
    Date posted: 9/30/2010 1:04:23 AM
    Hometown: Minneapolis

    Comment:

    1. It's shallow and ignorant to call heterosex marriage a natural marriage. It's same as calling a heterosexual person a natural person. So, if I am gay, am I not natural? 2. Many priests are homosexual themselves. It's a self-hate thing. Stop living lies.

  • Name: Rej
    Date posted: 9/30/2010 12:39:37 AM
    Hometown: Denver

    Comment:

    Davide, you say "40% of all gay men do not support same-sex marriage" (parphrasing here). Please give a SOURCE for this statistic.

  • Name: Richard
    Date posted: 9/29/2010 11:59:47 PM
    Hometown: Phoenix

    Comment:

    Davide you might want to tell your wife your gay, I think she should know. No REAL GAY person would quote the HIV facts and use the team HOMOSEXUAL. Your facts are missing a lot of information. Like it was the Gay community who work and help to slow down Hiv and Aids by hard work from our community. Not straights but Gay were the first to start caring for those who were infected, straights said just let them die. Just like the Church and all the fact it abuses childred your fact are misleading. Nice try.

  • Name: Davide
    Date posted: 9/29/2010 11:41:15 PM
    Hometown: Milano, Italia

    Comment:

    Someone better tell my boyfriend I am straight. I think you and other gays should stop worrying about this man and Italy and focus in HIV/AIDS prevention in the US. The new CDC report came out and HIV is increasing among active homosexual men at an alarming rate. Active homosexual men according to CDC are 44 time more likely to get HIV. 53 percent of new HIV cases in the US is by gay men even though they make up only 2 percent of the American male population. BTW not all gays support same-sex marriages in fact 40 percent do not. Get over it. I do not have to support gay marriage to prove to you or anyone else I am gay. Grazie

  • Name: Richard
    Date posted: 9/29/2010 11:33:42 PM
    Hometown: Phoenix

    Comment:

    Davide just because someone does not agree with you does not make it hate speach. By your comments you are someone who post comments on Gay sites to stir the pot because it show by your comments your straight. If you were Gay you would understand the true meaning of the Gay Marrage fight. It's about more then getting married, it's about our FREEDOM, SAFETY, COMFORT and the RIGHT TO FULL HAPPIENESS AS AN AMERICAN. Protection is for everyone not just for you who go to Church. And talk about hate speach, what were your words---SILLY AMERICANS and this because we did not watch a dvd from your Church. The Catholic Church has been anti-gay for years and has done everything in their power to hurt all Gays and to stop ALL Rights given to us (rights to protect us). So please understand if some of us don't believe your Gay and we do understand you are working hand in hand with the Church. I am sure the Church has a web-site you can post your comments where someone might listen to you.

  • Name: Dave
    Date posted: 9/29/2010 10:38:47 PM
    Hometown: Austin

    Comment:

    So Davide has decided to mindlessly support the mailing of this dvd without even viewing it? Hmmm. I'd like to also point out sir that while you may not want to be married or have sex with another man despite your sexual interest due to your religious beliefs which you choose to adhere to so to do those of us who do not follow your views of how the world should work to follow our beliefs.

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