Silenced priest warns of gay crisis

The Washington Times ^ | 11-15-04 | Julia Duin

[JZelle]

Starting today, 290 of the nation's Catholic bishops will meet at the Capitol Hyatt for their yearly business meeting and to tie up loose ends on the massive sexual-abuse crisis that has shaken the U.S. Catholic Church to its core in the past two years. Although it's been less than a year since the church revealed that there were 10,667 cases of abuse c

[JZelle]

This just isn't right.

[Tula Git]

It wasn't right in this post either

Silenced priest warns of gay crisis

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1280262/posts

[ReadyNow]

Say, maybe there's more to homosexuality than loving couples wanting to get married... more than stupid people harboring unreasoned hatred for homosexuals. What do the world's OTHER great religions have to say about this?

[elizabetty]

Perhaps they will figure out that married Priests may not be such a bad thing.

[Wicket]

Married priests would prevent homosexual liasons and pedophilia how, exactly?

[Little Ray]

It would create a hostile environment for gays and pedophiles.

[sitetest]

From the article:

" If all homosexual clergy were to leave the U.S. Catholic Church now, the church would lose one-third of its bishops as well,"

That's perhaps half the number who ought to go.

[Rutles4Ever]

Did you even read the article before posting that?

[ElkGroveDan]

Perhaps they will figure out that married Priests may not be such a bad thing.

How would heterosexual marriage solve the problems of homosexuals and pedophiles? People with those mental illnesses OUTSIDE the church have the ability to marry, and it hasn't solved their problems.

[Rutles4Ever]

Um... no. A hostile environment for gays and pedophiles involves summarily de-frocking them all and making sure they never set foot inside a rectory or seminary again.

That's a hostile environment.

[Rutles4Ever]

Whatever it takes. Clean it out. It's an act of mercy toward all the faithful priests who are getting punished privately and publicly with the others...

[CWOJackson]

I have to agree with you on that. Regardless of what the church wants to think, a priest is also a man. He shares the desires for companionship that God gave us all.

[mercy]

What OTHER great religions?

Hinduism? A polytheistic mishmosh of hundreds of cults worshiping just about anything one can imagine?

Islam? A death cult founded by a pedophile warlord two thousand years after Judaism that openly plagiarizes the latter. Since Buddhism is nothing more than an offshoot of Hinduism (a compilation of the nightmares of aboriginies most likely on drugs) I don't think I care much about what they have to tell me of homosexuality. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism and thus we come down to one source for the Truth about homosexuality. It is not to be accepted. It is what it is. At best a psychological illness that needs treatment. Once condoned by a society it spreads. Homosexuals create new homosexuals through molestation and pop-culture. The Bible tells us the truth about this perversion. We ignore it at our peril.

[Little Ray]

Yes, but a bunch an exclusive masculine organization attracts them. When you get enough gays in the organization they take it over and pervert it.

An organization of family oriented folks will be about as accommodating to gays as the Boy Scouts...

[Pyro7480]

Yes, but a bunch an exclusive masculine organization attracts them.

The Boy Scout has been pretty effective at banning them, and there isn't a requirement that scoutmasters should be married!

[Old Phone Man]

The way I understand it is The Holy Spirit guides the Church....I would tend to think that if a celibate priest really prays diligently to The Spirit, The Grace of God will enable him to be celibate. I believe in my heart that most priests remain celibate and many of those who fail confess their sins and become one again with Jesus Christ, it's those who continue to fail who should question their vocations and maybe seek a dispensation from their vows.

Molesting little children is a different story though. These men should be forgiven if they seek forgiveness, and then told that they must leave the priesthood....

Father Haley is right in what he is doing. God Bless him!

[Little Ray]

Yup. But they banned the gays from being Scoutmasters. The RC Church can't get away with that.
And you have to admit that the membership of the BSA is strongly hetero..

[Andy'smom]

Read Goodbye, Good Men by Michael Rose. It explains a lot about this subject.