Michael’s Media, reported to the IRS total revenue of more than $1.35 million. It has nearly 19,000 Twitter followers, over 68,000 YouTube subscribers, and more than 196,000 Facebook likes. While Engel is hardly alone in her thinking, even more dangerous are the outfits with a much greater reach like Voris’ Church Militant, the experts said.īased in suburban Detroit but not affiliated with the archdiocese, Church Militant produces podcasts, YouTube Videos, online articles and a daily talk show that Voris says gets about 1.5 million views a month. “These homophobic stereotypes are as false as they are salacious, revealing Engels’ and others’ desperation in a society that is quickly moving toward LGBTQ affirmation and a church that is in the earliest stages of considering and acting on the pastoral and spiritual needs of LGBTQ Catholics.” “If anything, her work suffers from a lack of imagination,” he said. “They would find out I was supposed to speak at a parish or at a university and they would launch a telephone campaign to get the lecture canceled.” “I would find myself confronted after some talks by people yelling: ‘You’re a heretic! You’re a false priest,’” Martin said. His book, which calls on Catholics to show gay people more respect and compassion - but does not explicitly challenge the Church’s teachings on homosexuality - was treated like heresy when it was published last year. Martin said he knows what it’s like to be on the receiving end of abuse from the Catholic alt-right. Catholic participation in the public square should be marked by both fidelity to the Gospel and to charity toward all our fellow citizens." "I urge my brothers and sisters to exercise extreme caution before giving credence to anyone who instigates shameful, digital stoning as a way to defend the Church. "The promotion and defense of the faith should invite an encounter with the merciful love of Christ and contribute to a more civil and peaceful dialogue in our church and society," he said. Conference of Catholic Bishops released the following response from their spokesman Bishop Christopher Coyne of Burlington, Vermont:
In response to repeated requests for comment from NBC News, the U.S. "They broke into the office/rectory and spray painted" an anti-gay slur on the conference wall, he wrote in an email to friends. McElroy speaks during a news conference in which he was introduced as the Bishop of the Diocese of San Diego on March 3, 2015, in San Diego. He said he received death threats, had his tires slashed, got hundreds of harassing letters, phone calls and emails, and was physically attacked after a Mass. Perhaps one of the most extreme examples of harassment was endured by Aaron Bianco, a gay man married to another man who told the New Ways ministry that he resigned from his job at a San Diego parish as a pastoral minister after more than a year of abuse. On the group’s website, there is a man who they say was fired by the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland after he “liked” a Facebook posting about a gay couple’s wedding and a Florida teacher who was pressured to resign after administrators at her Catholic high school learned she and her partner were engaged. In some cases they lost their jobs after Catholic alt-right activists scoured their social media postings for “evidence” and told their employers. Since 2007, New Ways Ministry has tracked 80 Catholic church workers who they say lost their jobs after they were outed as gay, or supportive of gays.