Search Asia Times Advanced Search Front Page SPENGLER Catholicism - isn't that a gay thing? In 1506, the Venetian prostitutes' guild lodged a complaint with the Signoria that homosexuality had become so prevalent as to threaten its livelihood. Civilizations in decline typically take on the characteristics of Bonobo monkeys, Nero's Rome being the most lurid example. No precedent exists to my knowledge, though, for the priesthood to become the homosexual vanguard. American Catholic priests are five or 10 times as likely to be homosexual as ordinary American men. In 1990, an American Franciscan priest mailed a survey to 500 priests...