A Fresno priest
decided to fight California's proposed gay marriage ban
by coming out as gay himself to parishioners during Sunday
mass. Father Geoffrey Farrow, a Catholic priest for 23
years, made the announcement at 11 a.m. mass at the
St. Paul Newman Center in his homily about acceptance,
love, and rejection, according to KFSN-TV.
"What most
Catholics hear about being gay or lesbian at their parish
is silence," he said on Sunday. Farrow said that
parishioners asked him what direction they should take
on Proposition 8. He said that he would go against
California's bishops -- including John Steinbock, the
head of the diocese of Fresno -- by rejecting the
proposition.
"In directing the
faithful to vote yes on Proposition 8, the California
bishops are not only entering the political arena, they are
ignoring the advances and insights of neurology, psychology,
and the very statements by the church itself that
homosexual is innate," he said. (Michelle Garcia,
The Advocate)