Gay former prit: The Catholic church 'is a sick stutn'

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GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE

Maybe we’re missg somethg, but the last time we checked, homosexualy was not one of the Seven Deadly Ss! Gay prits: Breakg the silence. He is one of very few openly gay prits.

Father Green "me out" to his ngregatn this Milwkee suburb about three years ago, at age 51, when he announced, "I am a gay prit, and a celibate prit.

" This moment me after a lifetime of stggle, servg a church that teach that "actg on" homosexual feelgs is a s. Father Greg Green is one of a very few openly gay prits Ameri. He found folks his ngregatn were overwhelmgly asked Carol Webber, "Do matter to you that the prit here is gay?

GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE

" Later, they say havg an openly-gay prit helped. ""It says that 's not ol to be gay if you're a prit.

And if you are gay and a prit both at the same time, you've gotta hi one or the other. While Pope Francis famoly rpond "Who am I to judge" when asked about gay prits durg a papal prs nference, he has also said that anyone wh "ep seated" homosexual tennci shouldn't be a prit. "Their place is not mistry or nsecrated life, " he Jam Mart, a Ju prit and thor, and the most high-profile advote for LGBTQ Catholics, said, "I thk that if you had sudnly all the gay prits the Uned Stat e out, I thk the Church would be forced to look at the qutn of homosexualy a very different light.

We have high suici rat among LGBT youth, and we also have plac the world where gay people n be arrted and executed for beg gay.

OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS

"He lls Pope Francis (the first pope to e the word "gay" publicly) the most pro-LGBTQ pope ever, though acknowledgg that's "not a high bar.

" "One of the thgs I lament is, if there were a se of, say, bullyg a parish or a school, would be wonrful for the gay prit to get up and say, 'Look, I was bullied as a boy, '" Father Mart said.

"How many gay prits do you thk there are? ""It is a large, silent muny, a vast silent majory, " said Frédéric Martel, a French thor who spent four years rearchg his book, "In the Closet of the Vatin, " about the gay unrworld there. He said he terviewed hundreds of prits, even rdals: "It's 'Fifty Shas of Gay.

GAY FORMER PRIT: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 'IS A SICK STUTN'

' I mean, a lot of different kd of gay. He suggts the largt group of men the Vatin may be gay, but do not practice, and n actually be the most homophobic – and terviews disvered a real range of sexual inti. "It's important to note: the prits "Sunday Morng" spoke wh, as well as the Vatin self, see no nnectn between homosexualy and the cleril sexual abe crisis.

A five-year study by New York's John Jay College, missned by bishops, found "the data do not support a fdg that homosexual inty is a risk factor for the sexual abe of mors. "Doane spoke wh about two dozen prits, who told they were gay, but few would share their stori publicly. Father Greg Green, fahfully servg his parish Wisns, said secrecy is a surge the church, so the first step for him is beg open and asked, "You signed up to work for an stutn that thks beg gay, actg out on that, is a s.

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