Paul Kalchik defended his Pride flag burning, adding that it was the church’s “full right to destroy it. They said simply, ‘That ceremony you’re having … where you’re going to burn, blah blah blah,’ you know, ‘don’t have that ceremony.’ So, again, they didn’t tell me not to destroy it.” Kalchik later stated, “Nobody said not to destroy it. But Kalchik burned the flag anyway in a private Sept. The rainbow flag that once hung in Resurrection Parish churchĬatching wind of his plans for a Pride flag burning, overseeing Cardinal Blase Cupich reportedly told Kalchik not to hold his ceremony. 2 services, he informed his congregation that he intended to burn “items of sacrilege,” along with some parishioner pledge cards and incense in a special prayer service in front of the church following its Sept. Paul Kalchik later discovered this flag and, on the church program printed for Sept. The flag was a banner with a rainbow descending behind a translucent cross, symbolizing that the gay community, then reviled as the Satanic degenerates behind the HIV epidemic, were welcome. The rainbow flag in question was actually brought into Resurrection Parish church in 1991 by Daniel Montalbano, a gay pastor who began holding services in the church after his own church burned down.
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