ROTTEN FRUITS
OF BERGOGLIO:
Fordham
University Theology Department Chairman Marries Another Man!
Catholic school defends his
"constitutional right to get married"
The
chairman of the theology department at Fordham University has gotten married—to
another man.
The New York Times, which up until a few years ago,
declined running wedding announcements involving same-sex couples, reported
that J. Patrick Hornbeck II “married” Patrick Anthony Bergquist Saturday at St.
Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Manhattan. The ceremony took place June 27,
just a day after the US Supreme Court legalized same-sex “marriage” nationwide.
That would not have been necessary legally, since New York State has allowed
gay “marriage” since 2011. But the ceremony was conducted before the Episcopal
Church in America voted this week to allow same-sex “marriage” rites in its
churches.
When asked whether Fordham was concerned about
having a professor of theology whose lifestyle choice is in opposition to the
teaching of the Catholic Church about marriage, a spokesman for the university
said Hornbeck has the right to get married.
“While Catholic teachings do not support same-sex
marriage, we wish Professor Hornbeck and his spouse a rich life filled with
many blessings on the occasion of their wedding in the Episcopal Church,” said
Bob Howe, Fordham’s senior director of communications. “Professor Hornbeck is a
member of the Fordham community, and like all University employees, students
and alumni, is entitled to human dignity without regard to race, creed, gender,
and sexual orientation.”
Howe emphasized that same-sex unions are “now the
law of the land, and Professor Hornbeck has the same constitutional right to
marriage as all Americans.”
Hornbeck, 33, teaches medieval and reformation
history at Fordham. He graduated from Georgetown. His mother is an
administrative assistant at Brophy College Preparatory, a Jesuit high school
for boys in Phoenix. Bergquist, 35, is director of children, youth and family
ministries at St. Bartholomew’s, where the couple “married.”
An automated email response from Hornbeck indicated
that he would “be away from my email altogether from June 27 until July 5.”
In 2014, Hornbeck participated in a symposium at
Fordham titled “Who Am I to Judge? How Pope Francis Is Changing the Church.”
“In the last 18 months Pope Francis has taken the
Catholic world by storm,” Hornbeck in promotional material for the symposium,
which was to focus on “the future of Catholicism as well as examine recent
public statements from the pope on subjects that range from the role of LGBT
persons in the church, to the restructuring of the Vatican Bank, to unmarried
couples and divorce.
“American Catholics and their church have not been
on the same page for some time,” said Hornbeck. “But now the pope is opening up
space for dialogue.”
Meanwhile, a Catholic school in Macon, Ga., is
facing a federal discrimination lawsuit from a former teacher whose employment
was terminated in 2014 after the school found that he would be legally marrying
his same-sex partner, the Cardinal Newman Society reported.
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