Catholic group spent lns on data trackg gay prits, 'Washgton Post' reports : NPR

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• COLORADO CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS TO INTIFY PRITS G GAY DATG APPS
• CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS ON DATA TRACKG GAY PRITS, 'WASHGTON POST' REPORTS
• CATHOLIC GROUP SPENDS MILLNS ON DATG APP DATA TO OUT GAY PRITS
• CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS ON APP DATA THAT TRACKED GAY PRITS
• TWO JAMAIN MEN GET LIFE SENTENC FOR KILLG PRIT THEY MET ON POPULAR GAY DATG APP
• GREEK ORTHODOX PRIT ACCED OF G GAY DATG APP GRDR MELBOURNE
• CATHOLIC GROUP SOUGHT OUT GAY PRITS THROUGH INFO FROM APPS

COLORADO CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS TO INTIFY PRITS G GAY DATG APPS

The se of the high-rankg Catholic cleric who rigned after allegedly beg tracked on the gay datg app Grdr quickly beme a Rorschach tt Wednday for Catholics already mired tensn over polics, theology and culture.

He stepped down after a Catholic newsletter prented nference officials wh allegatns that cellphone data dited he had repeatedly ed Grdr and vised gay bars. Agast that ntent backdrop, Mike Lewis, founr of the Catholic news se Where Peter Is, said he felt torn about the Pillar’s publitn of Burrill’s alleged e of Grdr and viss to gay bars.

Burrill rigned, The Pillar said, anticipatn of their report, which alleged he had regularly ed the LGBTQ datg app Grdr and vised gay bars om 2018 to 2020. ” Catholic and LGBTQ advot alike nmned The Pillar’s report as homophobic s suatns that Burrill’s alleged e of a LGBTQ datg app somehow proved he “engaged serial sexual misnduct.

CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS ON DATA TRACKG GAY PRITS, 'WASHGTON POST' REPORTS

“We do not believe Grdr is the source of the data behd the blog’s uhil, homophobic wch hunt. A nservative Catholic group based Colorado spent lns to obta data that intified prits g gay hookup and datg apps, later sharg the data wh bishops project was rried out by nservative non-prof Catholic Lay and Clergy for Renewal, the Washgton Post first reported. Monsignor Jefey Burrill stepped down om his post as secretary general of the Uned Stat Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) July 2021 after a Catholic news se, the Pillar, ed mercially available data to track his e of gay hookup apps and viss he paid to a gay bar and bathhoe.

Monsignor Jefey Burrill, the top admistrator for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), rigned om the posn this week followg claims he regularly ed the queer datg app Grdr and went to gay bars. The allegatns were put forward by Catholic news se the Pillar, which alleg to have accsed the prit’s cellphone data, where claims to have found evince of his activy both virtual and physil gay foms.

CATHOLIC GROUP SPENDS MILLNS ON DATG APP DATA TO OUT GAY PRITS

The Wisns-based prit’s alleged “activy” clud attendg a “gay bathhoe” Las Vegas.

CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS ON APP DATA THAT TRACKED GAY PRITS

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However, a wave of nmnatn has followed the Pillar’s report and s “uhil, homophobic” e of personal data. “The article, which I will not lk to, repeatedly nflated homosexualy wh pedophilia, all unr the guise of a journalistic ‘vtigatn.

TWO JAMAIN MEN GET LIFE SENTENC FOR KILLG PRIT THEY MET ON POPULAR GAY DATG APP

Catholic group spent lns on data trackg gay prits, 'Washgton Post' reports. NPR's Steve Inskeep talk to Washgton Post reporter Michelle Boorste about the Catholic anizatn that bought mobile phone data to "out" prits who e gay datg apps. Your headle The Washgton Post says "Catholic Group Spent Millns On App Data That Tracked Gay Prits.

GREEK ORTHODOX PRIT ACCED OF G GAY DATG APP GRDR MELBOURNE

" Why gay prits?

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CATHOLIC GROUP SOUGHT OUT GAY PRITS THROUGH INFO FROM APPS

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A group of nservative Colorado Catholics has spent lns of dollars to buy mobile app trackg data that intified prits who ed gay datg and hookup apps and then shared wh bishops around the secretive effort was the work of a Denver nonprof lled Catholic Lay and Clergy for Renewal, whose tste are philanthropists Mark Bman, John Mart and Tim Reichert, acrdg to public rerds, an d rerdg of the nonprof’s print discsg s missn and other documents. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) after a Catholic news se, the Pillar, said had mobile app data showg he was a regular on Grdr and had gone to a gay bar and a gay bathhoe and spa.

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