[NYer]

From the Catholic Defense League

GAY ACTIVISTS BULLY D.C. PRIESTS

November 20, 2009

Catholic League president Bill Donohue addresses a serious issue involving gay activists in the District of Columbia:

A new homosexual website, ChurchOuting.org, is intent on publicly disclosing who the gay priests are in the Archdiocese of Washington. The goal of this outing is to intimidate gay priests, as well as heterosexual priests who may be “romantically involved,” into voicing objections to the Catholic Church’s opposition to gay marriage.

This initiative is the work of Phil Attey, self-described as “Liberal-Gay-Ardent Obama Supporter”; he was active in the Obama Pride Metro-DC campaign. According to one news report, “Attey is going to approach priests he thinks are gay, and warn them that they better stop lobbying against gay people, seeing how gay they are…or…else?”

Catholic priests are also being pressured to sign the “Declaration of Religious Support for Marriage Equality,” a statement by Clergy United for Marriage Equality. The statement, while it is not one we support, is respectfully written. Accordingly, we will write to members of the Steering Committee of this group asking them to dissociate themselves from this attempted hijacking of their effort.

The Catholic League is prepared to assist any priest in the Archdiocese of Washington who is the victim of harassment, intimidation or stalking. Whatever resources the priest needs, we will see to it that he is served. If radical gay activists want a showdown with the Catholic League, we will not disappoint them.

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[popdonnelly]

It’s perfectly all right to attack Catholicism, but you can’t criticize Islam. Odd, the Catholic Church isn’t advocating a return to the 12th century, nor does it oppress and kill members of other religions.

[ElPatriota]

... A longtime Washington, D.C., liberal Internet activist has founded a Web site that he says will collect accounts of homosexuals in the Catholic priesthood--accounts he will use to “encourage” them to change their views on homosexual marriage and other issues...

DEAR HOMOSEXUALS /s --- (ROFL)

PLEASE!... PLEASE!... PLEASE DO!... I have no doubt we have them and in high positions. We need to clean up the RCC from this decease.

WON'T YOU HELP US? :)

[buwaya]

This isn’t going to work. The Catholic Church is not a local organization, and even the Archbishop answers to a higher (human) authority.

They can “out” all the priests they like, and if they are lucky they can even panic the occasional Bishop, but Benedict XVI won’t budge. We can lose every priest in Washington DC, they can be replaced.

[jroneil]

Note to all Catholics and Non-Catholics THERE ARE SINNERS IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH! It still does not make the Catholic Church wrong. It is not a reason to leave the church. There has always been sinners in the church. The Holy Spirit protects the message of the Church. If people leave because a priest or bishop has sinned then they do not know what it means to be Catholic.

[marron]

Please, out them. Any preachers out there you run across, out them too. Catholic, not-catholic, doesn’t matter.

We need to clean house.

[stop_fascism]

Excellent. Nothing would be better then to rid the church of “gay” priests. They are a blight.

[kcvl]

http://tinyurl.com/y98urzv

http://www.facebook.com/attey

Phil Attey, self-described as “Liberal-Gay-Ardent Obama Supporter”; he was active in the Obama Pride Metro-DC campaign. According to one news report, “Attey is going to approach priests he thinks are gay, and warn them that they better stop lobbying against gay people, seeing how gay they are…or…else?”

Catholic priests are also being pressured to sign the “Declaration of Religious Support for Marriage Equality,” a statement by Clergy United for Marriage Equality.

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http://tinyurl.com/ylntax8

Phil Attey, who just last year was an Obama Pride coordinator in DC. The DC gay magazine Metro Weekly adds that Attey worked for the left-wing gay activists at the Human Rights Campaign for the “bulk” of the 1990s.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

I can’t see how this achieves anything. So what if a priest is a homosexual? So long as he remains celibate, what’s the beef? So long as he isn’t a pedophile, so what? I simply cannot understand this silliness. I have absolutely no idea if homosexuality is nature or nurture. I personally knew a kid who was ABSOLUTELY out of the womb that way. His parents in no way encouraged him to play with Barbies or walk with a wiggle any girl would admire. Are others simply choosing a lifestyle? I don’t know, and I don’t care. Whichever it is, don’t be a slut. Consecrated life is just that — consecrated. Marriage is a vocation between consenting and able adults for the purpose of providing for children. Do I think gays should have all the other rights afforded to good friends and lovers — you betcha’. Do I think anyone has the right to keep two consenting adults apart — no way. Does this in anyway have anything to do with being a priest? Not even in the same galaxy.

[Slyfox]

Exposed?

How is a non-gay priest going to be able to prove that he is not gay?

[DGHoodini]

GOOD! Do it now! Do it loudly! ALL priests engaged in homosexual activities need to be exposed, defrocked, and excommunicated!

..like “last year”!

[usslsm51]

Outing them would be the right thing to do. I don’t think the Church will bless them and say it’s ok to be gay. At least we will know who they are and be able to keep children away from them. So go ahead.

[Darren McCarty]

I think there needs to be a nice vetting of Phil Attrey to see what he's done in his past. Any employment misconduct or something there? Any underage partners? Reputation for lying?

Don't get mad. Get even.

[the invisib1e hand]

hmmm. whassamatter, catholics not falling into line?

[RobbyS]

It IS blackmail. If any priest gets a call from these guys, he should call the cops and asked to be wired. As illegal as hell. The only question is whether the cops are willing to co-operate or whether they have been bought-off. Any crime ins permissible if there is no law enforcement.

[Nosterrex]

This group is doing a service for the Roman Catholic Church. The more homosexual priests and pedophiles that it purges from the Catholic Church, the better.

[Ann Archy]

Liberalism is a VILE MENTAL DISEASE!!

[Antoninus]

I hope they do this. It will backfire on them like they won’t believe. Just like the sex abuse scandal did.

[PhilDragoo]

Obama and Larry Sinclair.

[FTJM]

Great idea.