More than one month after Loaded Gun broke the news that Boston-based GLBT writer Scott D. Pomfret was questionably removed from a volunteer position at Saint Anthony Shrine in Downtown Crossing, the author of "Since My Last Confession: A Gay Catholic Memoir" chats with Johnny Diaz in today's Boston Globe."I do feel like I've lost my spiritual home," the 40-year-old author reveals. "I know the good work that I've done."
Back in September, Pomfret says he knew something was up.
"I went to the Shrine for the regularly scheduled meeting of the GLBT Spirituality Group, which met every third Wednesday of the month. As soon as I entered the Shrine’s lobby, I knew something was amiss. Our little paper rainbow flags that point the way to the meeting room were absent," he says.
As a practicing Catholic in a long-term committed gay relationship with a hardcore atheist, Pomfret explores his faith in the book (released in June 2008) with the hierarchy’s bitter attacks on same-sex marriage, adoption, GLBT seminarians, Capri pants, innate style and anything else remotely gay.
Pomfret, who works as a government attorney during the day and, with his partner Scott Whittier, is responsible for the "Romentics" series of explicit gay romantic novels at night, told Loaded Gun back in September that he was hurt by St. Anthony Shrine's knee-jerk reaction to his work.
"I felt sucker punched. Like a jilted lover. Not that I had not anticipated such a result from my book," he confesses. "But the reality was difficult, made exponentially worse by the inability of my friends at the Shrine to show either courage or courtesy, to stand in good faith and express their feelings in an open dialogue."
Click here for the Globe piece and here for my original post on Pomfret.
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