The Religion News Service website reports today (April 6, 2011) that Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley said the pastor who turned a boy away from a Catholic school because he has two lesbian mothers has "my full confidence and support."
In his first public comments on the controversy, O'Malley said Catholic schools exist for the "good of the children," and confirmed his support for the Rev. James Rafferty, who denied admission to the 8-year-old boy at St. Paul School in Hingham, Massachusetts.
"I can attest personally that Father Rafferty would never exclude a child to sanction the child's parents," O'Malley wrote on his personal blog.
But gay rights groups chided O'Malley for his defense of the pastor's decision.
"If this blog was intended to be pastoral, it has failed on a number of accounts and further muddies the waters," said Harry Knox, the director of the religion and faith program at the country's largest gay rights group, the Human Rights Campaign.
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