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• JOHN PLK WAS THE POSTER BOY OF THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT FOR 25 YEARS. HERE'S WHERE HE IS NOW.
• WAS THE APOSTLE PL GAY?
• ST. JOHN PL II’S TOTALLY CATHOLIC RPONSE WHEN GAY ‘PRI’ PARA ME TO ROME 18 YEARS AGO
• FORMER EX-GAY SPOKMAN JOHN PLK APOLOGIZ AMID DIVORCE
• WAS J GAY? PROBABLY
• WAS ST. PL GAY? CLAIM STIRS FURY
• JOHN PL YOUNG WOOS YOUNG, GAY CROWD WH 1978 H

JOHN PLK WAS THE POSTER BOY OF THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT FOR 25 YEARS. HERE'S WHERE HE IS NOW.

For Pope John Pl II did lbian, gay, transgenred and bisexual peopl untold harm. I bore first-hand wns to this my 24 years of pritly mistry to gay men sufferg and dyg om HIV/Aids.

Aga and aga durg the 1980s and 1990s, at the very height of the panmic New York primarily and then London, was my pa and privilege to hold the hand of young Catholic gay men their twenti and thirti and try to reassure them that they were not nmned to eternal damnatn bee of what their Church tght about their orientatn and their lovg sexual behavur. Most tragilly of all for me as a Catholic prit was that at least three of the people I assisted were fellow prits, two of whom like myself were Irish born - gay men tortured and tormented as they went to meet their Maker by the very Church to which they had given their liv. Their fai and relig muni did not want to know what was too is the legacy of Pope John Pl that he mt now answer for the prence of our gay brothers to whom this life he gave so ltle to quench their eternal, one may well ask, n any self-rpectg gay man or woman stay wh such an opprsive and, for , a humanisg stutn?

WAS THE APOSTLE PL GAY?

Yet here I am, an openly gay Catholic prit, and still I believe and hope and love om wh s ranks. It was his s that bld him to as gay people.

We are the midst of a cultural sea-change as regards homosexualy.

ST. JOHN PL II’S TOTALLY CATHOLIC RPONSE WHEN GAY ‘PRI’ PARA ME TO ROME 18 YEARS AGO

But to someone younger, homosexualy seems to be a great al ls threateng. When addrsg the qutn were John and Pl lovers, ’s key to remember this pot: Homosexualy was absolutely verboten the time and place of the Beatl. The guys, we have to realize, had likely dulged every sexual practice known to homo sapiens, and probably vented a few new on along the way.

You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web over a , John Plk was the poster boy of the ex-gay movement. As a self-proclaimed nverted gay man happily married to his wife, an ex-lbian named Anne, he ma untls media appearanc, spoke at Exod nferenc, and publicly advoted for “gay reparative therapy” for “broken” homosexuals. The pastor troduced him to Exod, a mistry California pecially for gay people who wished to be nverted and bee straight for relig reasons.

FORMER EX-GAY SPOKMAN JOHN PLK APOLOGIZ AMID DIVORCE

Plk immediately signed up for a year-long rintial program lled “Steps Out of Homosexualy, ” which he lived wh 12 other people, studied the Bible, and went to church. “Even as I pursued this reer as a profsnal ex-gay man, and raised a fay and loved my wife, I was utter torment, ” Plk wrote 2014. I wanted my homosexualy to change, but the tth is: For all my public rhetoric, I was never one b ls gay.

Plk got dnk and wound up at a gay bar D.

He was still livg his life as a heterosexual man, and his wife Anne still believed the ex-gay movement, but he only got more lonely as the years went by. That same year, Plk divorced his wife, and me out aga as a gay man. ” Plk’s ex-wife Anne remas part of the ex-gay movement today through the Rtored Hope Network, an anizatn that cropped up the wake of Exod’ dissolutn to “serve those who sire to overe sful relatnal and sexual issu their liv and those impacted by homosexualy, ” their webse stat.

WAS J GAY? PROBABLY

“It’s ternalized homophobia: you hate what you are. It is a form of self-flicted torture that has hnted me my entire life, and I do not want young gay women and men today to go through what I went through, ” Plk wrote 2014.

Today, Chef John Plk owns Mezzaluna, a terg bs, Portland, Oregon, where he liv proudly and openly as a gay man. Once unlocked, the msag not only cease to be hidn but they bee obv, glarg at the rear, who wonrs why such obv meangs had not been seen have suggted that that Pl was plagued by homosexual fears.

WAS ST. PL GAY? CLAIM STIRS FURY

This is not a new ia, and yet until recent years, when homosexualy began to shed some of s negative nnotatns, was an ia so repulsive to Christian people that uld not be breathed official circl. This is not to say that our cultural homophobia has disappeared.

Wh the softeng of that homophobic stance we might nsir the hypothis that Pl may have been a gay male. When I did this for the first time, I was startled to see how much of Pl was unlocked and how eply I uld unrstand the power of the gospel that lerally saved Pl's I suggt the possibily that Pl was a homosexual person, I do not mean to be salac or tillatg or even to suggt somethg that many would nsir sndalo. The prence of homosexualy would have created this rponse among Jewish people that perd of history.

The war that went on between what he sired wh his md and what he sired wh his body, his drivenns to a legalistic relign of ntrol, his fear when that system was threatened, his attu toward women, his refal to seek marriage an outlet for his passn-nothg else acunts for this data as well as the possibily that Pl was a gay 's relig tradn would clearly regard gay mal as aberrant, distorted, evil, and praved. When disvered, gay mal were que often executed. Later the Torah ath is lled for as the penalty for homosexualy.

JOHN PL YOUNG WOOS YOUNG, GAY CROWD WH 1978 H

If homosexualy was his ndn, he knew well that by that Law he stood nmned. The realizatn that he was a homosexual male do.

June 7, 2018 (LifeSeNews) – The late Pope Sat John Pl II did not equivote or plate over the implitns of a sizable celebratn of homosexualy nducted Rome durg the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year of 2000 – sayg was an “offense” to Christian valu and an sult that mand acrimony. ''In the name of the Church of Rome I n only exprs my ep sadns at the afont to the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000 and the offence to the Christian valu of a cy that is so ar to the hearts of Catholics throughout the world, '' he told pilgrims a Sunday msage one day after thoands had marched a gay pri para Rome.

The pope reaffirmed Church teachg on homosexualy, quotg the Catechism, and said the Catholic Church uld not be silent about the tth. ''Homosexual acts are ntrary to the natural law, '' John Pl II said an addrs livered om a balny over St. A New York Post at the time portrayed John Pl II's cricism as “homophobia, ” sayg he was “angry” as he spoke out agast the celebratn of homosexualy.