Catholic Bishop Tells Priests: No Funerals for Gay Couples

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Two years after the Supreme Court made gay marriage legal, the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Ill., has issued a decree instructing his priests to not only refuse to perform gay marriage services but to deny Holy Communion, last rites, and funeral services to members of same-sex couples who don’t express "repentance before death."

 In the decree, Bishop Thomas Paprocki calls marriage a "covenant between one man and one woman" and the Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell vs. Hodges decision a "reversal of millennia of legal and judicial recognition of the marital union." When Illinois made gay marriage legal four years ago, Paprocki performed a public exorcism in response, the Chicago Tribune reports.

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