Claim Church teaching helped prompt gay bar shooting is ‘lie’

Claim Church teaching helped prompt gay bar shooting is ‘lie’ Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver prays the Lord's Prayer at the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls in Rome February 12, 2020. Photo: CNS/Paul Haring

Denver Archbishop Samuel Aquila called it irresponsible and a “flat out lie” for The Denver Post daily newspaper and some other local media to scapegoat Catholic teaching on human sexuality as contributing to hatred against transgender people and the wider LGBTQ community that led to a mass shooting at a Colorado gay bar. He made…

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