Detroit archbishop bans LGBTQ Catholic groups, offers conversion therapy instead
Detroit Free Press reports.The Archdiocese has also banned any priests from performing Mass for the groups, writing in a letter that any Mass which “rejects Church teaching on human sexuality” would not be possible “in any parish church, chapel, or diocesan facility, and is indeed forbidden everywhere in the Archdiocese of Detroit.”Battersby said the ban on LGBTQ groups was to prevent confusing “the faithful by seeming to endorse an alternative and contradictory path to sanctity.”Instead, the Archdiocese is recommending that LGBTQ Catholics in the Archdiocese participate in church-sanctioned conversion therapy program Courage, and that their friends and families attend EnCourage to support them with their “same-sex attraction.”The Southern.
