Catholic Group Buyg Data to Out Gay Prits is Tip of Lotn-Trackg Iceberg | ACLU

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

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 GAY PRIT PROBLEM

“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 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. 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.

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

“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. 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.

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

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. 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.

CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS ON APP DATA THAT TRACKED GAY PRITS

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.

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.

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

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. 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.

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.

CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT MILLNS TO TRACK GAY PRITS ON GRDR, SCFF

” 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. ” Whether the prithood is beg a gay profsn is not, of urse, a difficult qutn to ask, or to answer.

CONSERVATIVE CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT $4 MILLN SEEKG TO FORCIBLY OUT GAY PRITS

It will be a tough problem to solve, part bee Catholics like Roberts cherish a ntempt for nservativ (“homophob, right-wg zealots”) that overmasters their tun that somethg has gone wrong wh the liberal project when s clost alli the clergy are lked the public imagatn wh male ballet dancers and fashn signers.

In the same ve, whereas the Natnal Catholic Reporter via Jason Berry’s articl was among the first publitns to broach the subject of cleril sexual abe, the same paper remas bewilrgly doctraire s refal to qutn the dogma that the preponrance of male victims is entirely unrelated to pritly homosexualy. ” Still, liberals characteristilly refe to acknowledge their own role creatg the gay prit problem, and often attempt to transfer the blame to others.

Much of the hierarchy’s reluctance to addrs the issue stems precisely om the beatg knows would take at the hands of liberals should treat gayns as a negative factor. Homosexualy is not treated as a problem For all that, the number of prits ad of AIDS has forced everyone, even gay clergy themselv, to adm that somethg is not right. No one faiar wh the nduct of Catholic gay/lbian mistry the Uned Stat will ntt the claim that many, perhaps most, of the misters are sexually active gays.

CATHOLIC GROUP BUYG DATA TO OUT GAY PRITS IS TIP OF LOTN-TRACKG ICEBERG

It is a slight exaggeratn, if is an exaggeratn at all, to ntend that the only disqualifyg factor for gay/lbian or AIDS mistry is moral disapproval of the gay liftyle. Silence on this subject on the part of bishops and relig superrs is bafflg to lay Catholics, who naturally wonr whether there is a double standard operatn that censur laypeople but exc clergy, that censur heterosexual but exc homosexual vice.

Even rarer than discsn of the moral lquency of the prit wh AIDS is ndid acknowledgment of the part played by sexual perversn ntractg the disease, the psychologil disorr of the man locked to a pulsive homosexual libido which is marked by an adolcent selfishns and hunger for gratifitn and an adolcent irrponsibily and lack of ntrol. Embezzlers are not mend for their genero service to the bankg dtry, yet gay prits who break their vows are routely praised for their mistry. In the same way, even though most Catholics their heart of hearts reject the stigmatizatn of their healthy reactns as “homophobia”, an uneasy sense of “there but for the grace of God go I” tempers their revulsn and sometim hibs them om givg voice to the moral ncern they rightly tu.

Gays have not been slow to explo this reticence to their own polil advantage, and ed have done so wh outstandg succs. If is not already obv om what has preced, should be stated flatly that the word “homophobia” will not be found the mouth of an hont man. ” “How to be celibate and to be gay at the same time, and how to be celibate and heterosexual at the same time, that’s what we were never really tght how to do.

DENVER-BASED CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS TO TRACK GAY PRITS, SAYS NEW REPORT

The gay prit problem will ntue to worsen as long as this -talk remas the domant idm.

As long as semarians are “ted sexualy” by the Michael Petersons and are warned by their superrs that they mt “live fortably wh people of different sexual orientatns, ” we n be sure that the number of gays will steadily crease the clergy and the language of moral tegry will be phed out of the discsn.

It is this sense that the prcipal reason why the actn necsary to solve the gay problem won’t be taken is that the epispacy the Uned Stat is rpt, and the same is te of the majory of relig orrs.