ABC rrponnt Father Edward Beck asks whether gay prits the Catholic Church are the problem?
Contents:
- ARE GAY PRITS THE PROBLEM?
- ‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
- THE GAY PRIT PROBLEM
- THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS ENABLG THE SEX ABE CRISIS BY FORCG GAY PRITS TO STAY THE CLOSET
- WHY WON’T OUR BISHOPS SOLVE THE “GAY” PRIT PROBLEM?
- CONONTG THE GAY PRIT PROBLEM
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
- THE GAY CHURCH
ARE GAY PRITS THE PROBLEM?
* gay priest problem *
April 15, 2010 — -- The sex abe sndal the Roman Catholic Church took yet another turn this week when statements by the Vatin's secretary of state, Cardal Tarcis Bertone, send only to Pope Benedict, lked pedophilia to homosexualy. Bertone said: "Many psychologists, many psychiatrists have monstrated that there is no relatnship between celibacy and pedophilia, but many others have monstrated that there is a relatnship between homosexualy and pedophilia. Pedophilia and ephebophilia are sexual disorrs that afflict both heterosexuals and homosexuals, and mostly problem of sexual abe is rooted not orientatn but rather pathology ed by the environmental, behavral, blogil and societal ndns of the aber.
Trma om early childhood (ag 2-5), cludg sexual abe and arrted sexual velopment are the most mon factors ced by those who diagnose sexual, there are gay anecdotal statistics suggt as many as 40 percent of prits may be gay, acrdg to Jam Wolf's book "Gay Prits, " although this is not verifiable bee many rema silent for fear of eccliastil and societal, y, a small mory of gay prits who were sexually arrted and maladjted abed boys.
” And yet, thoands of the church’s prits are stori of gay prits are unspoken, veiled om the outsi world, known only to one another, if they are known at than about 10 prits the Uned Stat have dared to e out publicly.
‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
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 problem *
”The sexual revolutn happeng outsi semary walls might as well have happened on the moon, and natnal ton the fight for gay rights, like the Stonewall rts, on prit a ral dce said the l remd him of how his elementary school forced left-hand stunts to wre wh their right hand. “Instead of seeg creased acuntabily on the parts of the bishops, uld bee once aga a nmnatn of lbian, gay, transsexual people wh the church, ” John Coe, 63, a permanent an Kentucky, who me out last year, said about the summ.
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. ” 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.
THE GAY PRIT PROBLEM
The problem is abe of power, an abe that happens as a rult of homophobia that keeps gay men the closet. * gay priest problem *
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 CATHOLIC CHURCH IS ENABLG THE SEX ABE CRISIS BY FORCG GAY PRITS TO STAY THE CLOSET
Until the sndal-swamped Catholic Church fac s gay prit problem, nothg will change * gay priest problem *
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.
WHY WON’T OUR BISHOPS SOLVE THE “GAY” PRIT PROBLEM?
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * gay priest problem *
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.
CONONTG THE GAY PRIT PROBLEM
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. ” 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.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
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.
DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
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.
THE GAY CHURCH
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. 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.
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.
Therefore no man should be elevated unls he has a track rerd as a head-cracker and has cleaned up problems of sexual wrongdog, by dismissg gay semarians or semary faculty, for example, or by gettg rid of miscreants at a universy chaplacy. The reason is that gays are perfectly prepared to let one of their own number mouth Church teachg if by so dog he earns a promotn; but if a man expos their iquy and acts agast , they will retaliate fiercely if there is any ammunn to be had, any wrongdog, that is, their adversary’s past.