Openly Gay Catholic Prit Discs Pope Francis' Appeal For LGBTQ Protectns : NPR

Contents:

• GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE
• US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
• OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
• BLACK GAY PRIT NYC CHALLENG CATHOLICISM OM WH
• A GAY PRIT RIGNED OVER GRDR USE. HE WAS OUTED BY HIS CELL PHONE DATA
• CATHOLIC DCE SAYS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE N'T BE BAPTIZED OR RECEIVE COMMUNN
• VATIN FIR GAY PRIT WHO CAME OUT BEFORE GLOBAL MEETG
• 'I AM GAY': WISNS PRIT OUT TO PARISHNERS, GETS STANDG OVATN
• A BLACK GAY PRIT NEW YORK CY IS CHALLENGG THE CATHOLIC CHURCH OM WH
• ‘I’M GAY AND I’M A PRIT, PERD.’
• BLACK GAY PRIT NYC CHALLENG CATHOLICISM OM WH

GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE

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.

US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT

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?

" 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.

BLACK GAY PRIT NYC CHALLENG CATHOLICISM OM WH

' I mean, a lot of different kd of gay.

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

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. Bernatte Catholic Parish, Milwkee, Jam Mart on Twter"In the Closet of the Vatin: Power, Homosexualy, Hypocrisy" by Frédéric Martel (Bloomsbury Contuum), Hardver, Tra Paperback, eBook and Aud formats, available via Amazon and Indiebound Story produced by Sari Aviv and Anna Matranga.

CATHOLIC DCE SAYS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE N'T BE BAPTIZED OR RECEIVE COMMUNN

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Openly Gay Catholic Prit Discs Pope Francis' Appeal For LGBTQ Protectns.

VATIN FIR GAY PRIT WHO CAME OUT BEFORE GLOBAL MEETG

He's an openly gay Catholic MASSINGALE: I was actually very exced and even jubilant, I have to say. I was very, very pleased to hear the pope make this kd of endorsement of civil unns for gay and lbian persons.

'I AM GAY': WISNS PRIT OUT TO PARISHNERS, GETS STANDG OVATN

And he says that gay and lbian persons have the right to a fay and a right to a fay life.

A BLACK GAY PRIT NEW YORK CY IS CHALLENGG THE CATHOLIC CHURCH OM WH

And so this ll for the civil regnn and protectn of gay civil unns, 's really an affirmatn of the humany of gay and lbian persons - that he's sayg that bee gay and lbian persons are human begs, that society, that the state, that ernments have an obligatn and a duty to protect their basic human Do extendg the right to a civil unn and acknowledgg that LGBTQ people should be allowed to have a partner their life through a civil unn and a fay - do that mean children?

Now, may seem to be a semantic difference, but I thk what the pope is sayg is that he is not opposed to the legal regnn of fay life and the right for gay and lbian persons to raise and have As a gay Catholic yourself, I mean, as a man of fah, as a Catholic, is somehow ls signifint, I would image, a civil unn than beg able to be married the church?

‘I’M GAY AND I’M A PRIT, PERD.’

I personally - and I know many others, gay and lbian persons and those who are alli and who love - would want the church to be able to one day regnize the lovg mments of LGBTQ persons the sacrament of marriage. We have to remember that homosexualy is still crimalized over 70 untri.

BLACK GAY PRIT NYC CHALLENG CATHOLICISM OM WH

And what the pope is dog wh this kd of claratn - he's clearly puttg the Catholic Church on the si of agast the crimalizatn of behavr and favor of protectg the human digny of gay and lbian But help me unrstand this bee 's my unrstandg that the Catholic Church still nsirs homosexualy to be a s, not somethg that should be enuraged a liftyle. In this untry, there have been efforts to say that Catholics, Catholic stutns n't be volved or the adoptn - or allowg gay and lbian parents to adopt children.