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.
Contents:
- A GAY PRIT RIGNED OVER GRDR USE. HE WAS OUTED BY HIS CELL PHONE DATA
- THE GAY PRIT PROBLEM
- CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS ON DATA TRACKG GAY PRITS, 'WASHGTON POST' REPORTS
- COLORADO CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS TO INTIFY PRITS G GAY DATG APPS
- CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS ON APP DATA THAT TRACKED GAY PRITS
- CATHOLIC GROUP SPENDS MILLNS ON DATG APP DATA TO OUT GAY PRITS
- CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT MILLNS TO TRACK GAY PRITS ON GRDR, SCFF
- CONSERVATIVE CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT $4 MILLN SEEKG TO FORCIBLY OUT GAY PRITS
- CATHOLIC GROUP BUYG DATA TO OUT GAY PRITS IS TIP OF LOTN-TRACKG ICEBERG
- DENVER-BASED CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS TO TRACK GAY PRITS, SAYS NEW REPORT
A GAY PRIT RIGNED OVER GRDR USE. HE WAS OUTED BY HIS CELL PHONE DATA
The Gay Prit Problem Is there an epimic of homosexualy the prithood? Recent media reports of an “epimic” of AIDS among prits an examatn of the problems the Church that have led to the current suatn. * gay priest data *
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.
The Wisns-based prit’s alleged “activy” clud attendg a “gay bathhoe” Las Vegas. (Homosexualy, along wh all sexual activy outsi of heterosexual marriage, is nsired a s Catholic doctre. 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. Catholic Church rigned Tuday after his cellphone data was lked to Grdr and var gay bars.
THE GAY PRIT PROBLEM
* gay priest data *
The Pillar, a Catholic newsletter on Substack, approached the USCCB wh data they claimed proved that Burrill had vised gay bars and actively ed Grdr for gay hookups, which vlat both the vow of celibacy mandated for Catholic prits and the church’s stance on print Archbishop José Gomez said that Burrill chose to rign to avoid beg “a distractn, ” acrdg to the Washgton a statement to the Post, a spokperson for Grdr lled The Pillar’s story “homophobic” and ially nied was possible for the pany’s data to have been ed this way. ”The Pillar’s origal story argued that Burrill’s work on child protectn issu was nflict wh his e of the gay datg app, playg to the persistent, damagg, and false stereotype lkg gay men to pedophilia.
CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS ON DATA TRACKG GAY PRITS, 'WASHGTON POST' REPORTS
That clus gay prits the Catholic church, who are ncerned they may be outed next. Are open about their sexual orientatn, the New York Tim timated a 2019 report that 30% to 75% of practicg male clergy the Catholic Church are gay. “The vast majory of gay prits are not safe, ” Father Bob Bsen, a prit Park Cy, Utah, who was outed around 2007 after holdg a mass for the LGBTQ+ muny, told the Tim.
By the same token, when we are urged to pretend that there is room for doubt as to how most prits ntract AIDS, we n be sure that our gaze is beg tentnally diverted om the ugly and disputable facts: a disproportnately high percentage of prits is gay; a disproportnately high percentage of gay prits routely engag sodomy; this sodomy is equently ignored, often tolerated, and sometim abetted by bishops and superrs.
COLORADO CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS TO INTIFY PRITS G GAY DATG APPS
The percentage is vigoroly disputed, of urse, but one ditn of the spe of the problem is that those who argue for the lowt timate sist that the number of gays the clergy is no higher than that of the gay populatn society at large—as if this were not on s own showg evince of a profound crisis.
CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS ON APP DATA THAT TRACKED GAY PRITS
Gay prits themselv—who, though admtedly partisan, admtedly also have unique accs to the facts—monly assure that they are legn wh the prithood general and well-reprented even among bishops.
CATHOLIC GROUP SPENDS MILLNS ON DATG APP DATA TO OUT GAY PRITS
Of the seven, three have (to date) died of AIDS, and a fourth is an openly gay prit now workg as an artist New York. The prit-artist plored the fact, not that his fellow Jus engaged homosexual relatns, but that they did not take “safe-sex” preutns even after the facts about HIV transmissn beme known.
In this se, four of seven prits a discrete sample are known to have been actively homosexual. “In my worst moments, ” he said, “I fear I will have been a llaborator supportg an stutn that opprs gay people.... ” In the same ve, such prits routely gloat about the fact that gay bars big ci have special “clergy nights, ” that gay rorts have set-asis for prits, and that certa plac the dcan apparat is ntrolled entirely by gays.
CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT MILLNS TO TRACK GAY PRITS ON GRDR, SCFF
What is signifint is that the are not claims ma by their opponents, not accatns fired off by right-wg Catholics a f of paranoia; rather they are gays’ words about gays themselv. Their boasts clu havg blackmailed the Connecticut Catholic Conference to reversg s opposn to a gay rights law by threateng to “out” gay bishops—a reversal that is difficult to unrstand whout rort to the blackmail explanatn.
The nsiratns serve to unrsre the pot that the problem of gay prits entails not simply the sndal of sexual mismeanor but also the fact that gay Catholics, by virtue of the fact that they reject her thory, serve to unrme the teachg Church. To this end, is stctive to ponr the followg msage to his fellow gay clergy by South Ai’s Bishop Regald Cawcutt, penned rponse to a mor that Cardal Joseph Ratzger’s Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah was about to issue a letter prohibg the acceptance of gay semarians.
CONSERVATIVE CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT $4 MILLN SEEKG TO FORCIBLY OUT GAY PRITS
Iology allows the problem to persist Bishop Cawcutt’s astonishg survivabily puts one md of Print Clton’s, and to some extent the persistence of the gay prit problem and Print Clton’s immuny to sndal have a mon e: gay clergy their sphere and Clton his own have been dispensable agents the advancement of the liberal agenda.
CATHOLIC GROUP BUYG DATA TO OUT GAY PRITS IS TIP OF LOTN-TRACKG ICEBERG
Like their secular unterparts, Catholic liberals, even where they do not posively appld the sexual recreatns of gay prits, are willg to overlook the rultant embarrassment orr that a more important end may be served— orr, that is, that gays may rema as active members the Church to assist them their project of replacg ecclial thory wh personal experience as the norm termative of thentic fah. Of their panns dissent who stayed behd the prithood, a disproportnately high number are gay, and even liberal wrers have mented on the “lavenrizatn of the left” that characteriz the cleril wg of their movement. A review of a recent book on the prithood by the Natnal Catholic Reporter’s Tom Roberts typifi the posn—uneasily held, nervoly exprsed—of the non-gay progrsive: “Consirg Orientatn” is the chapter of The Changg Face of the Prithood that als wh the creasgly disproportnate number of homosexuals the Roman Catholic prithood and the one that leads the thor, Fr.
DENVER-BASED CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS TO TRACK GAY PRITS, SAYS NEW REPORT
” It is a vilishly difficult qutn to ask, first bee almost no one the hierarchil ranks wants anythg to do wh , and bee one n only approach through a mefield planted wi wh homophob, right-wg zealots who see homosexual clergy as a particularly nox maniftatn of a liberal agenda, and the church’s teachg that the homosexual orientatn is “objectively disorred.