By CatholicVote | Created at 2025-01-15 19:21:16 | Updated at 2025-01-15 22:04:01
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CV NEWS FEED // A Catholic church in eastern Minnesota recently removed and apologized for a message that read “Drag Queen-free since 1953!” on the church’s electronic sign, according to the Pioneer Press.
Father Nate Meyers, pastor of Transfiguration Catholic Church, said the sign was up for a brief period of time on Jan. 10 without his knowledge, the Pioneer Press reports. Fr. Meyers became aware of the message the same day following a complaint about it, and he immediately saw to it that it was removed.
On Jan. 13 Transfiguration Catholic Church posted the apology statement on Facebook, stating that the message “made reference to a specific demographic of people in a way that fails to adequately account for the Catholic Church’s teachings on the dignity of the human person.”
The statement further read that the leadership of Transfiguration “regrets the controversy that this has caused as it distracts from the parish’s mission to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
Moving forward, the church stated that it will work to ensure that similar incidents do not take place.
“We firmly hold that all people are made in the image of God and this innate dignity is to be respected at all times, even when serious disagreements emerge,” the church’s leadership stated. “Transfiguration is resolved to ensure such an incident does not occur in the future so that nobody ever feels again that our parish and school are unavailable for their spiritual and pastoral care.”
