The Roman Catholic bishop of San Diego has denied funeral rites to a man who owned a bar and a dance club popular with gays, saying his business activities clashed with church teaching. The owner, John McCusker, who was 31 and gay, died of congestive heart failure on Sunday, his family said. Arrangements had been made for services at his alma mater, the University of San Diego, until Bishop Robert H. Brom intervened. “The bishop concluded that to avoid public scandal Mr. McCusker cannot be granted a funeral in a Catholic church or chapel,” the diocese said. A church official said the decision was not related to Mr. McCusker’s sexual orientation.
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The revised Catechism:
Who made us? God made us.
Why did God make us? God made us to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world and the next … unless you run a gay bar.