Father Dave Zegar, Womanpriest

"Father" Dave is pastor of St. Andrew Church in Portland, Oregon. From The Oregonian:

"Parishioners from St. Andrews Catholic Church, which has a longstanding commitment to social justice issues, will march in Sunday's Portland Pride Parade with a banner proclaiming their parish identity, despite the wishes of Archbishop Alexander Sample. 

 Monsignor Dennis O'Donovan, vicar general of the Archbishop of Portland, called St. Andrew's pastor, the Rev. Dave Zegar,  on May 31 on behalf of Sample, parishioners say. O'Donovan relayed the message that individuals could walk in the parade but that the archbishop did not want St. Andrew's members to walk as a community."

Zegar

  On June 4, Zegar met with a group of St. Andrew's parishioners, who decided to stand by their 17-year commitment to Portland's gay community. At Mass on Sunday, Zegar shared the group's decision with the congregation, who responded with a standing ovation, according to Tom Karwaki, who chairs the parish's pastoral council."

If I may:

1) Pride is a deadly sin. The Catholic Encyclopedia says  "Pride is the excessive love of one's own excellence" While accurate to describe those who participate in such spectacles, I don't think a priest should be encouraging sin - especially deadly ones.

2) it is typical of the "In your face" approach of the gay community to stage this event on Father's Day.

3) Archbishop Sample should come down on Zegar with a holy wrath. Either he is in direct disobedience to the Bishop, or he is being cow-towed by a segment of his congregation. Either way, he needs to apologize and go away for a while.

Hey! The day a Mass in Spanish and Kanjoval! Pretty amazing, when only about 75,000 people speak this Mayan language peculiar to Guatemala....