I know, I wasn't surprised by that, either.
Mind you, Catholic Church officials knew they had priests who molested children and protected them by moving them from parish to parish for decades. They didn't call the cops, they didn't kick these priests out of the club, they protected the child molesting priests. But priests who go to gay clubs and have casual sex? They gotta go!
A gay priest sex scandal has rocked the Catholic Church in Italy today after a weekly news magazine released details of a shock investigation it had carried out.
Using hidden cameras, a journalist from Panorama magazine - owned by Italian Prime Minister and media baron Silvio Berlusconi - filmed three priests as they attended gay nightspots and had casual sex.. . . .The Vicar of Rome today called on homosexual clergymen in the Catholic Church to “come out” and leave the priesthood.
Yeah. We wouldn't want to give those priests a second chance. They clearly aren't as deserving as child molesters.
On an only somewhat related side note, I find the phrase "casual sex" highly amusing. I've been lots of things during sex, but I can't say I've ever been "casual".
You know Catholic Church officials think is worse than a priest molesting children?
ReplyDeleteWomen, amirite?
Here's what I don't understand.
ReplyDeleteThe priests who were protected by the Catholic church were ALSO having sex with Males (the children were almost all boys).
So the church is okay with gay sex if it is rape? Rape absolves the sin of gay sex?
Makes no sense to me at all.
Rape isn't about sex, it's about power. Gay rape, therefore, still isn't about gay sex, it's about (gay?) power.
ReplyDeleteConsensual gay sex however, is about being gay... and having sex. And if there's one thing that'll black-hole the Christian universe, it's teh gay.
People willing to express their power madness physically are totally okay compared to that...
I always thought that Ratzi hates queers like me for having sex with adults.
ReplyDeletei went to the link.
ReplyDeleteI KNOW BETTER.
for fuck's sake - it's WELL KNOWN that priests, and bishop, and cardinals and etc HAVE AFFAIRS. hell, POPES have had children AFTERING BECOMING POPE [although, to my knowledge, not in the past century]. clergy in the RCC *OFTEN* have affairs - some of them get married!
but it's *ONLY* a sin if it's "Gay"?!?!?!?
leaving aside the BS about the child molesting and worse - i just DO.NOT.GET.IT. i've seen SEVERAL studies that have been done in the past 20-30 years that state gay priests are *LESS* likely to abuse their vows that hetero priests! i've met two priests who felt what they termed "same sex proclivities" and BECAUSE of said "proclivities" felt they had to be priests - they took being gay as a SIGN FROM GOD THAT THEY WERE MEANT TO BE PRIESTS!
in ancient societies, gay men were priests. not all, no - but it was an accepted practice in certain societies for gay men to *BE* gay if they were in the priesthood. [i grant this class was almost 5 years ago and i can't remember all the details...]
it just pisses me off so MUCH! screw a woman, slap on the wrist - screw a man, get the fuck out. SAME OATH, SAME SIN!!!!!!!!!!!!