http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/19759/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/biasalerts/priest-denying-communion-active-lesbian-somehow-front-page-news-wapo <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/matthew-balan">Matthew Balan</a> </div> </div> </div> <p> Just days after Maryland's state legislature passed same-sex "marriage," the Washington Post <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Epaper/2012-02-29/Ax1.pdf" target="_blank">trumpeted on its front page</a> how a "<b>deep in grief</b>" woman in a long-term lesbian relationship had been denied Communion by a Catholic priest during her mother's funeral in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The woman accused the cleric of playing "<b>politics</b>...<b>and you will pay dearly on the day of judgment for judging me</b>."<br /> </p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/biasalerts/priest-denying-communion-active-lesbian-somehow-front-page-news-wapo" target="_blank">read more</a></p> BiasAlerts News Analysis Division Barbara Johnson Marcel Guarnizo Michael S. Rosenwald Michelle Boorstein Washington Post Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:17:12 +0000 matthew.balan 39294 at http://archive2.mrc.org