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• CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS ON DATA TRACKG GAY PRITS, 'WASHGTON POST' REPORTS
• CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS ON APP DATA THAT TRACKED GAY PRITS
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• COLORADO CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS TO INTIFY PRITS G GAY DATG APPS
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• CATHOLIC GROUP SPENDS MILLNS ON DATG APP DATA TO OUT GAY PRITS

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

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CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS ON APP DATA THAT TRACKED GAY PRITS

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Catholic group spent lns on data trackg gay prits, 'Washgton Post' reports. NPR's Steve Inskeep talk to Washgton Post reporter Michelle Boorste about the Catholic anizatn that bought mobile phone data to "out" prits who e gay datg apps. Your headle The Washgton Post says "Catholic Group Spent Millns On App Data That Tracked Gay Prits.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

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

A group of nservative Colorado Catholics has spent lns of dollars to buy mobile app trackg data that intified prits who ed gay datg and hookup apps and then shared wh bishops around the secretive effort was the work of a Denver nonprof lled Catholic Lay and Clergy for Renewal, whose tste are philanthropists Mark Bman, John Mart and Tim Reichert, acrdg to public rerds, an d rerdg of the nonprof’s print discsg s missn and other documents.

Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) after a Catholic news se, the Pillar, said had mobile app data showg he was a regular on Grdr and had gone to a gay bar and a gay bathhoe and spa.

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WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

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

The rmatn both is mostly about Grdr, although the reports also say they have ed data om other gay datg apps Growlr, Scff and Jack’d, as well as datg and hookup apps let people create profil, search for other ers and send private msag back and forth. Prits are gay men, who serve a church that teach beg gay is “disorred, ” opposn to God’s plan.

Social nservativ have noted that abe victims of Catholic clergy recent s were mostly male and have tried to pat gay prits as the problem. But profsnal advot for abe survivors say the problem isn’t gay prits, but stead a silence and simplifitn around the topics of celibacy and clergy sexualy that a mory of s allows secrets to Catholic Church teach that prits make promis of “celibacy, ” which falls unr the Sixth Commandment ( Catholicism the Sixth Commandment lls for permanent fily to your spoe) and lerally means they will not marry. That said, ’s “gaslightg” to ll stori foced on Grdr anti-gay, he said.

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