NEW JERSEY
NJ.com
By Bill Wichert | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on May 21, 2015
SOUTH ORANGE — A church official on Thursday refuted allegations that a priest is being removed as director of campus ministry at Seton Hall University as a result of a pro-LGBT Facebook post he made.
Rev. Warren Hall claimed in a tweet posted on Friday that he was “fired from SHU for posting a pic on FB supporting LGBT ‘NO H8.’ I’m sorry it was met with this response. I’ll miss my work here.”
But Jim Goodness, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Newark, said in a statement on Thursday that Hall’s pending removal was not in response to the Facebook post.
“There are always many factors that go into evaluating whether a particular assignment is a good fit for a priest,” Goodness said.
“It is unfortunate that the tweet from Fr. Hall garnering so much media attention has been interpreted to suggest that the decision to assign another priest to the position of Director of Campus Ministry at Seton Hall was in response to Fr. Hall’s advocacy of tolerance for men and women with same-sex attraction. That could not be farther from the truth.”
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