A Catholic high school in Buffalo, NY is under fire for refusing to put a gay graduate's wedding announcement in an alumni magazine. Lynn Zlotkowski [above left], a member of the Class of '99 at the Sacred Heart Academy, was married over Memorial Day …
The Buffalo News reports:
“Zlotkowski received an email response to her wedding announcement request, and while friendly and cordial, it rejected the request for inclusion in the alumni publication.
“I’m very sorry that we can’t publish your pictures and your good news in the Cordecho,” Sister Edith Wyss wrote. “We had a similar request several years ago and we did publish that announcement of the marriage of an alum to her partner. We did expect some negative response and we got some.
“However some readers of the Cordecho also contacted the Diocese of Buffalo. The bishop sent a diocesan official to meet with us at SHA to make sure that we understood what we had done,” Wyss wrote. “In their view, we were publicly supporting same-sex marriage. In our view, we were supporting our alumnae.” …
