When Christians protest on public streets during pro-homosexual events, tehy face harrassment and arrest. If they attempted to actually interfere with the event, there would be oputrage.

When will we hear the condemnation of this disruption of Pentecost Sunday Mass in Minnesota?

More than 50 gay rights activists wearing rainbow-colored sashes were denied Holy Communion at a Pentecost service yesterday at the Roman Catholic Cathedral in St. Paul, Minn., parishioners and church officials said.

In an act that some witnesses called a "sacrilege" and others called a sign of "solidarity," a man who was not wearing a sash received a Communion wafer from a priest, broke it into pieces and handed it to some of the sash wearers, who consumed it on the spot.

Ushers threatened to call the police, and a church employee burst into tears when the unidentified man re-distributed the consecrated wafer, which Catholics consider the body of Christ. But the Mass was not interrupted, and the incident ended peacefully, said Dennis McGrath, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

"It was confrontational, but we decided not to try to arrest the guy," he said.

Disrupting the service and profaning the Eucharist -- they need to be arrested next year.

More importantly, participants should be excommunicated next year.

And as far as condemnations -- who wants to bet that the only ones we hear are of the Church, not those who violated the sanctity of the cathedral.

Oh, and here's a suggestion -- why don't you try something like that at a Muslim house of worship? Oh, yeah, they will stone you or decapitate you, not just deny you communion.

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