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Some nservative Catholics are blamg clergy sex abe on gay prits, cg "homosexual works" the church. The argument reflects wir cultural and polil nflict Catholic circl.

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A GAY PRIT RIGNED OVER GRDR USE. HE WAS OUTED BY HIS CELL PHONE DATA

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.

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”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.

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“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.

“I really am gay, ” Father Green, now a prit near Milwkee, remembered tellg himself for the first time. For years, church lears have driven gay ngregants away shame and sisted that “homosexual tennci” are “disorred.

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” 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. But gay men probably make up at least 30 to 40 percent of the Amerin Catholic clergy, acrdg to dozens of timat om gay prits themselv and rearchers. One prit Wisns said he assumed every prit was gay unls he knows for a fact he is not.

A prit Florida put this way: “A third are gay, a third are straight and a third don’t know what the hell they are. ”Two dozen gay prits and semarians om 13 stat shared timate tails of their liv the Catholic closet wh The New York Tim over the past two months. A few had been exprsly forbidn to e out or even to speak about homosexualy.

He uld lose all three if his bishop fds his sexualy disqualifyg, even if he is fahful to his vows of environment for gay prits has grown only more dangero. McCarrick, the once-powerful rdal who was ocked last week for sexual abe of boys and young men, has flamed accatns that homosexualy is to blame for the church’s rurgent abe crisis. Studi repeatedly fd there to be no nnectn between beg gay and abg children.

AS CATHOLIC SEX ABE CRISIS DEEPENS, CONSERVATIVE CIRCL BLAME GAY PRITS

And yet proment bishops have sgled out gay prits as the root of the problem, and right-wg media anizatns attack what they have lled the church’s “homosexual subculture, ” “lavenr mafia, ” or “gay bal. He has lled homosexualy “fashnable, ” remend that men wh “this ep-seated tenncy” not be accepted for mistry and admonished gay prits to be “perfectly rponsible, tryg to never create sndal.

The bate promis to be not only about holdg bishops acuntable but also about homosexualy “It really never was my shame. “The vast majory of gay prits are not safe, ” said Father Bob Bsen, a prit Park Cy, Utah, who was outed about 12 years ago after he held Mass for the L. ”“You uldn’t have a particular iendship wh a man, bee you might end up beg homosexual, ” explaed a prit, who once nicknamed his iends “the P.

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