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(April 6)   \u003cbr/\u003eMILWAUKEE (AP) _ A Good Friday home opener posed a spiritual dilemma for some Catholic baseball fans in Milwaukee, who had to decide whether to abstain from eating meat as their religion dictates or to indulge in one of Brewers' fans most cherished traditions.\u003cbr/\u003e   Brats and burgers fresh off the grill are tailgate staples at plenty of stadiums. But people take their meat especially seriously at Milwaukee's Miller Park. Here, the Racing Sausages _ people who race in the middle of the sixth inning while dressed as bratwurst, chorizo, hot dog, Italian sausage and Polish sausage _ are one of the most popular attractions.\u003cbr/\u003e   \"It's Miller Park, Opening Day _ I think Jesus would turn the other cheek on this one,\" joked Joey Curtin, a Catholic and a student at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, who grilled up a heaping stack of brats and hot dogs with friends.\u003cbr/\u003e   When St. Patrick's Day fell on a Friday during Lent in 2006, dozens of bishops nationwide granted a special one-day dispensation that allowed Catholics to enjoy their corned beef with a clear conscience.\u003cbr/\u003e   Not this time around. Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki instead released a statement reminding Catholics of the solemnity of Good Friday.\u003cbr/\u003e   \"As much as we love the Brewers, unlike Jesus, they didn't die for your sins,\" he said. \"With regard to beer and brats on Good Friday, let's just say that's why God created the 3-game series.\"\u003cbr/\u003e   Some Catholics said they didn't need any reminder. Connie Nyman, a 64-year-old Catholic school teacher from Waukesha, ate tuna fish and shrimp at her tailgate party.\u003cbr/\u003e   \"Good Friday is a sacred day. If ever someone should sacrifice in remembrance of what the Lord gave us, it's that day,\" she said.\u003cbr/\u003e   Catholicism teaches that Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and the other Fridays of Lent in the weeks before Easter are days when the faithful must not eat meat or meat products, and Good Friday is one of the holiest days of Christian calendar.\u003cbr/\u003e   \"It was an easy decision for me,\" said Ed Smith, 45, of Delafield. \"I see it (abstaining from meat) as a small sacrifice for the gifts we've been given.\"\u003cbr/\u003e   Others were a bit more conflicted _ if not deterred. \u003cbr/\u003e   Dave Coenen, a state biologist from Wausau, was with a group that served bratwurst and elk sausage, as well as shrimp for those who wanted to abstain. Coenen knew he'd go for the brats, so he said the rosary on his drive to Milwaukee and brought an Easter lily for the tailgating table for good measure.\u003cbr/\u003e   \"You know, if God's going to keep me out of heaven for eating bratwurst on Opening Day, so be it,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003e   He added, however, that he planned to go to Mass on Saturday or Sunday to seek forgiveness.\u003cbr/\u003eMilwaukee\u003cbr/\u003e1. Medium of tailgaters at Miller Park\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of Miller Park\u003cbr/\u003e3. Tight of Miller Park sign\u003cbr/\u003e4. Medium shot of Dave Coenen and his cousin David Buechnel tailgating outside Miller Park\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: Dave Coenen (KOO-nehn), Catholic who decided to eat a venison sausage while tailgating during Opening Day. \"\"I struggle with some things. It is Good Friday. I come from a very strong Catholic background and Catholic faith but we're at Miller Park, it's opening day. A lot of people will be eating bratwursts and didn't types of meat products. Our crew over here we have a big shrimp fish boil. Then we also have  a variety of venison bratwursts and elk bratwursts and Clements bratwurst and sausages and meats. I struggled with that a little bit but I just decided you know I'm just going to have some fun today. Like all of us, as Catholics we are sinners. And the good lord gave his only son for us as sinners. If I'm going to sin today by eating meat, then sobeit.\u003cbr/\u003e6. Tight of brats on grill\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: Coenen \"I'm going to have to go to confession before Easter Sunday to confess the fact that I ate meat here today, but sobeit I guess.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Medium of Coenen eating a brat\u003cbr/\u003e9. Tight of bun and brat\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: David Buechel (BEE-kehl),  Coenen's cousin who organized the outing. He went to Good Friday services before meeting the group at Miller Park. \"\"I'm abstaining but I've been brought up that way as a Catholic\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Medium of Buechel eating\u003cbr/\u003e12. Tight of Bechel dipping a shrimp\u003cbr/\u003e13.  SOUNDBITE: Buechel \"I'm eating shrimp and corn and potatoes, yep.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14.  Medium of Bueche's at tailgate\u003cbr/\u003e15. Tight of Easter Lilly on table\u003cbr/\u003e16.  SOUNDBITE: Buechel, about the other people in his group eating meat: \"We'll probably form a little circle and pray for them before we go into the game.\"\u003cbr/\u003e17. Tight of corn and potatoes\u003cbr/\u003e18. Tight of brats\u003cbr/\u003e19.  SOUNDBITE: Cindy Greenfield, Catholic tailgater who ate a turkey hot dog. \"Generally I don't eat meat on Friday during Lent but today I had a turkey burger or turkey hotdog and I feel kind of guilty about it.  But I don't like salmon patties. It was just my husband's other idea so that was my only other alternative so that's what I did.\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Medium of Greenfield tailgating\u003cbr/\u003e21. Tight of her tailgaiting\u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE: Greenfield \"I did think about it and I was trying to think about other alternatives. I thought about just having some bread but I thought I should  have a little more to eat.\"\u003cbr/\u003e23. Wide of tailgaters\u003cbr/\u003e24. Medium of tailgaters\u003cbr/\u003e25. SOUNDBITE: Greenfield \"I thought it was really strange that they had opening day on Good Friday. I thought how strange why would they do that when it's brats and hot dogs and you can't have meat when you're Catholic so why would they do that without having a dispensation for the Catholics but there wasn't any so.\"\u003cbr/\u003e26. Medium of people going into stadium\u003cbr/\u003e27. Tight of people going into stadium\u003cbr/\u003e28. 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