(CNN)-- CNN's Brooke Baldwin spoke to Barbara Johnson who says a priest denied
her communion at her mother's funeral Mass at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland because she is a lesbian.
Here, more than in any testimony developed
at the trial, was the mute evidence of the anguish caused by the rift in the church: «Green silk altar hangings given by Miss Winifred Walker in memory of her sister, Ruby Walker... Private
communion service given by Mrs. Annie Rose Robertson Sprague in memory of her
mother and her sisters... A dogwood planted on the front lawn in memory of Marie Gatling Payne...»
In her conversation with Pam Rhodes for Premier Christianity, she revealed that
at her first
communion, aged seven, she sang «Suffer Little Children To Come Unto Me» and «O Mary
Mother Sweetest Best».