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I’m gay and I’m a priest, period.’
Washington Post ^ | January 31, 2016 | Michelle Boorstein

Posted on 01/31/2016 10:01:53 PM PST by detective

God, what are you calling me to do here, prayed the priest. Come out, or stay in the closet ?

After 23 years in Chicago parishes, the question had pushed its way to the surface.

He weighed his options. He thought about his parishioners. Many, he knew, were accepting of gay people, even of same-sex marriage, but others - less so. He had grown up in a large Catholic family; he understood what people's faith meant to them. He didn't want to harm his flock, or the Catholic Church.

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TOPICS: Moral Issues
KEYWORDS: catholic; francischurch; frankenchurch; homesexuals; homosexualagenda; priest
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From the article:

"the Catholic priesthood may be one of the last remaining closets - and it's a crowded one. People who study gay clergy believe gay men make up a significant percentage of the 40,000 ordained priests in the United States"

Homosexuals have infiltrated the Catholic priesthood and the Catholic hierarchy. Almost all of the dishonestly labeled "child abuse" and "pedophilia" cases were actually homosexual priests seducing boys in their late teens.

Priests take a vow of chastity. The vow before God to not engage in sex after they are ordained.

Homosexual priests disregard that vow and engage in homosexual activities whenever they want.

Homosexual acts are sinful. The are an abomination in the eyes of God. These homosexuals are not priests in the true sense of the word. They have broken their vows. They are not men of God. They are repeated and habitual sinners.

1 posted on 01/31/2016 10:01:53 PM PST by detective
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To: detective

You’re defrocked. Period.


2 posted on 01/31/2016 10:06:44 PM PST by Ray76
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To: detective

Why they have to tells us? Attention seekers. Look at me, look at me.


3 posted on 01/31/2016 10:11:59 PM PST by jennychase
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To: detective
Almost all of the dishonestly labeled "child abuse" and "pedophilia" cases were actually homosexual priests seducing boys in their late teens.

That does not make it any less abusive. I don't see the "dishonest" labeling here.

4 posted on 01/31/2016 10:12:18 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: detective
Im gay and Im a priest, period.

So you're also a liar and fraud who made meaningless vows before God. They and their sexual urges are more important to them than the Church or the trust of their parishioners. Such people are NOT to be trusted.

5 posted on 01/31/2016 10:13:02 PM PST by PGR88
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To: detective

What I find most ugly is they call themselves ‘father’. And yes, the very young are groomed for servicing the evil doers. So the sin has in some eyes a lesser evil if the boy is past puberty... You know it is just a couple of willing homosexuals in love.


6 posted on 01/31/2016 10:16:18 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: detective

also include the catholic Brotherhoods


7 posted on 01/31/2016 10:16:34 PM PST by stylin19a
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To: detective
As an aside, the following is a list of your typical, abnormal everyday lesbian.

Hollywood queers

Rachel Maddow, Gina McCarthy, Rosie O'Donnell, Michelle Rounds, Annise Parker, Kathy Hubbard; Elena Kagan, Christine Quinn, Kim Catullo, Jennifer Goodstein, Glennda Testone, Jodi Foster; Alexandra Hedison, Ellen DeGeneres, Portia di Rossi, Jill Sobule.

- - - - - - - - -

This is a list of Judges and Federal appointed Judges from varied Districts around the U.S. Most all of the following lesbians listed here were appointed by either Bill Clinton or Barrack Obama. This list of abnormal/queer judges are readily identified on wiki. We have many Presidential elections to win!

International Association of LGBT Judges and
National LGBT Bar Association:

Claudia Ann Wilken, Sara Gilbert, Linda Perry, Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner, Suzie Orman, Kathy Travis, Meredith Baxter, Nancy Locke, Lauren Blitzer, Chely Wright, Staci Michelle Yandle, Alison Nathan, Rosalyn Richter; Elizabeth Garry, Pamela Ki Mai Chen, Beth Robinson, Deborah A. Batts, Judith Ellen Levy, Elaine D. Kaplan, Nitza Quinones Alejandro, Deborah A. Batts, Emily C. Hewitt, Beth Robinson, D'Arcy Kemnitz, Senator Tammy Baldwin (Wis)

8 posted on 01/31/2016 10:17:23 PM PST by Mr Apple ( WHY ARE THERE SO MANY LESBIAN JUDGES THROUGHOUT OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM)
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To: detective
I’m gay and I’m a priest, period.’

What you mean is you're homosexual. period.


9 posted on 01/31/2016 10:19:47 PM PST by 867V309 (Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
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To: detective

Get out Ex-Priest. Find a new religion.


10 posted on 01/31/2016 10:27:01 PM PST by BridgeOutAhead (Obama.....dabit deus his quoque finem)
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To: detective

There is more abuse in Protestant churches than throughout Catholicism. And teachers even top that.


11 posted on 01/31/2016 10:30:06 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The dishonesty is the pedophilia and child abuse refers to young children. That was extremely rare and in the rare cases when it occurred it was homosexual priests who also had sex with boys in the late teens and twenties. It is a homosexual problem. Not a pedophilia problem.


12 posted on 01/31/2016 10:32:55 PM PST by detective
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To: Salvation

“There is more abuse in Protestant churches than throughout Catholicism. And teachers even top that.”

That is true but it does not excuse the behavior of homosexual priests or make their actions something that should be commended as the article suggests.


13 posted on 01/31/2016 10:35:43 PM PST by detective
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To: detective

The world needs hairdressers, too.


14 posted on 01/31/2016 10:49:03 PM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Salvation
Liberal talking points... Everybody does it. How many Protestant preachers or teachers call themselves ‘father’? How about leading by example.
Do you really believe that the Creator will judge base on the commonality of who all commits this sin. Most especially since Peter, (you know the rock), said judgment must begin at the house of God..... (IPeter 4:17)

The Protestants and school teachers will be second and third in line for judgment. I do not expect their excuses will hold anymore weight than those calling themselves ‘holy father’. It is sad to read the excuses for such an ungodly abomination.

15 posted on 01/31/2016 10:52:55 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: detective

He was one of the signers of an open letter to the hierarchy of the RC Church.

Excerpt:

The Church’s theology, including her moral teaching, is always in dialogue with the broader lived experience of her members, which shapes and rearticulates the ancient deposit of faith. We encourage a new atmosphere of openness to dialogue which includes the lived experience of many Catholic members. We recognize the blessings of countless homosexuals in a variety of relationships. We believe their experiences must be listened to respectfully.


16 posted on 01/31/2016 10:59:23 PM PST by sockmonkey (Donald Trump will ban auto-correct with an Executive Order. Go Trump!)
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To: Salvation
There is more abuse in Protestant churches than throughout Catholicism.

Hahahahahaaaaa! I guess that makes everything OK with you, then? /sarcasm

Denying a man the right to marry, and readily accepting closet or open homosexuals into your "priesthood" is an abomination to God. Paul and Peter make it clear again and again, that God's intention is not to have a group of men set aside with special recognition, but that we are ALL priests, and that the leadership in the church should consist of MARRIED men who are able to control their own household.

One can post all the cult's liturgy, myths, and fables, but cannot overcome the Word of God. We do not eat bread for salvation, nor do we have any reason to stay single to be local leaders. There is no Pope in Christianity. It's like teats on a boar hog! Peter makes it clear who is the Rock!

1 Peter 2: 1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.

4 As you come to him, the living Stone- rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him- 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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1 Timothy 3: 3 Here is a trustworthy saying: Whoever aspires to be an overseer desires a noble task. 2 Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3 not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. 4 He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full respect. 5 (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?)

17 posted on 01/31/2016 11:08:57 PM PST by WVKayaker (Sarah Palin endorses Donald Trump: 'No more pussyfooting around')
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To: Salvation

Yes, they have been infiltrating ALL institutions in an effort to destroy Judeo Christian Western Culture.


18 posted on 01/31/2016 11:32:38 PM PST by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: detective
Priests take a vow of chastity. The vow before God to not engage in sex after they are ordained.,p> I am not Catholic so I know it may sound crazy, but way back in the Seventies I was shared pizza and beer while watching the Watergate Hearings with two other counselors and the Priest at the boy's home where I worked. Somehow someone brought up that subject and the Father said he never had taken the vow of celibacy. He was fully ordained with the clerical collar and all the vestments.
19 posted on 01/31/2016 11:39:35 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! Trump 2016!)
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To: jennychase

Exactly. And they want us to believe he wrestled over the decision to go public. What a bunch of baloney! Look at me, look at me.


20 posted on 02/01/2016 12:01:02 AM PST by LibWhacker
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