Writer Anne Rice Leaves Catholicism In Protest Of Catholic Churches’ Anti-Gay Agenda

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Writer Anne Rice Leaves Catholicism In Protest Of Catholic Churches’ Anti-Gay Agenda
by: dandaman6007
Monday, August 2, 2010 at 5:28:00 PM EDT


I am a person who grew up with the saying that all that is needed for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing"

-Anne Rice

Today, Rice followed through on that statement as she publicly left the Catholic Church over frustration with their social agenda, particularly their stance on gay rights.

Anne Rice, author of Interview With The Vampire, has had an interesting relationship with religion in her life. She was raised catholic, but renounced the church when she was 18. She became an atheist and wrote novels with a markedly anti-christian tone. But in 1998 she made headlines by converting to Catholicism writing exclusively Christian-themed novels, like Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt.

Due to the Churches active stance against gay marriage, Rice could not in good conscience stay a member of the church. Today she posted to her facebook: “It's simply impossible for me to 'belong' to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For ten years, I've tried. I've failed. I'm an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else.” And Today on NPR she cited gay marriage as the last straw that prompted her to leave:

***I didn't anticipate at the beginning that the U.S. bishops were going to come out against same-sex marriage," she says. "That they were actually going to donate money to defeat the civil rights of homosexuals in the secular society. (NPR)

more:
http://www.amplifyyourvoice.org/u/dandaman6007/2010/8/2/Writer-Ann-Rice-Leaves-Catholicism-In-Protest-Of-Catholic-Churches-AntiGay-Agenda

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1. what took her so long?

[MichaelHarris]

10. she

needed a book deal and the crap she was writing wasn't selling. I predict a new Rice vampire novel before the end on the year.

[DURHAM D]

2. Maybe her gay son will forgive her now.

But really, what took her so damn long.

[Ozymanithrax]

3. Maybe she will write another Vampire novel...

Sanity at least has won out.

[Ken Burch]

4. I always hoped she'd get mixed up and write a Vampire Jesus novel

C'mon...you know we'd ALL read it!...

[Ozymanithrax]

5. Vampire Jesus...That is a great idea...

What if Jesus was really a vampire and the Catholic Church is run by Gouls taking care of all the vampires.

Gives washed by the blood of the lamb a whole new meaning.

I can see it now, Pontius Pilot, Vampire Slayer.

[Ken Burch]

7. With Judas Iscariot as Van Helsing!

And Paul of Tarsus as Renfield!

[Cassandra]

6. If they made a movie of it...

you know Glenn Beck would want the title role.

[mitchum]

9. There was a nutjob dad/cult leader in California a few years ago...

who believed that Jesus was a vampire.
And yes, he murdered several of his followers/offspring.

[MichaelHarris]

11. Jesus

was God's zombie son so to also make him a vampire is sort of exciting.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

12. "I vant you to drink my bloooood!!" nt

[mitchum]

8. That's because her Jesus and angels products flopped, but she...

more than anyone, should have known that teenage girls prefer vampires to zombies.