Church Hit with Nasty Calls for Stand on Marriage; Church Had Sign Backing Traditional Weddings

The New American website reports today (May 28, 2012) that a Catholic parish in Acushnet, Massachusetts has been targeted by homosexual activists for a sign it posted taking a stand for traditional marriage.

The sign -- displayed on the outside message board at St. Francis Xavier Church in Acushnet -- read, "Two men are friends not spouses," confirming that, in the eyes of the Church, only a man and a woman can be married.

The sign -- which the church displayed for only a 24-hour period  -- prompted a major backlash from homosexual activists.

Steve Guillotte -- director of pastoral services at St. Francis Xavier -- said the church has received a number of menacing, obscenity-laced phone calls, including one threatening to burn the church down.