Public Sex Tents and Other SF Issues

Openly homosexual supervisor Bevan Dufty, who represents San Francisco's Castro district has announced he is a candidate for mayor in 2011. Supervisor Dufty made the announcement on September 24. Three others have announced their candidacies.

The supervisor has had a number of encounters with the archdiocese of San Francisco, Catholic Charities CYO, and Most Holy Redeemer church. Dufty was one of the signatories to the board of supervisors resolution, which called the Catholic Church "hateful" and "discriminatory." The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is currently hearing a lawsuit from San Francisco Catholics who contend that the board of supervisors violated the constitution by issuing the resolution.

While the Supervisor may not like the Catholic Church, he is a big fan of Most Holy Redeemer. On January 6, 2009, following an incidence of vandalism at the Church in the aftermath of Proposition 8, Dufty sponsored a resolution condemning the act. Speaking before the board of supervisors Dufty said "At Most Holy Redeemer I feel they have succeeded with the struggle of honoring and affirming their LGBT parishioners and at the same time adhering to the doctrines of the church which sometimes are difficult to understand."

Duffy then dropped a bombshell: "So for this act to take place on a church which works so hard and the Sunday after the November election when Proposition 8 passed, all of the congregants who had been married since June (when the Supreme Court declared same-sex "marriage" legal) were asked to stand and to receive the blessing at the church."

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