Local Monastery Ends Up In CNN Story

Jane Valez Mitchell Takes On Most Holy Family Monastery

Most Holy Family Monastery was part of a recent CNN tv story.  CNN "Issues" host Jane Valez Mitchell did a segment on how a Amanda, a California man who had a sex-change operation and became a woman, went into a California Department of Motor Vehicles office to change her driver's license.  Amanda told CNN that after she visited the motor vehicles office, a DMV worker sent her a nasty letter at home, a letter which condemned homosexuality as a sin that cried out for vengeance.  "Well, initially I was shocked that someone would send me that hateful of a message to my house, after all I had done was go to the DMV, and I was really scared," Amanda told CNN’s Jane Valquez Mitchell.  Amanda also told CNN that the same day, she recieved a package in the mail with a dvd about hell, that was made by Most Holy Family Monastery in Fillmore, NY (Allegany County).   

Brother Michael Dimond, the religious superior at Most Holy Family Monastery, denies the allegations, and says that the video did not cover the topic of homosexuality.  Brother Michael also says the DMV worker sent the video all on his own, not on Most Holy Family Monastery's orders.  "He sent this video himself because he wanted to help out this lady, we had nothing to do with directing him to send the video out there, he choose to do that of his own volition."

Dimond also claims that the Monastery has recieved an email with a threat of violence, since CNN did a story on tv about the hell video.  Below is a copy of the email, which was posted on the Most Holy Family Monastery's webpage: 

"Death and the Journey into Hell" was sent by a DMV lunatic to a transgender driver in Calif., and one of their cretins is threatening him/her with this video. Just so you understand, you ignorant creeps are the lowest form of filth on earth, and in fact you are the ones who will burn in hell forever. Are you just stupid, genetically inferior (like all peasant Catholics) or just pure evil? You should be VERY WORRIED about the chatter going on in blogs tonight that fight for tolerance: some splinter groups are zeroing in on your address and discussing some very bloody and destructive plans for your kind. I hope they do really painful damage to you all: you deserve it."

CNN's Jane Valez Mitchell did not mention "Most Holy Family Monastery" by name in her segment, though she did say the title of the DVD about hell that Most Holy Family Monastery produced.