A book written by a gay sociologist? Really?
“A book written by a gay sociologist? Really?
Yes. Subject matter expert with a keen interest in the topic... who quotes others, including AIDS research concerning the number of Catholic priests dying of AIDS - in far, far greater numbers than the population of the US public.
“The notion that many Catholic priests are quietly gay is not new. In the 2000 book “The Changing Face of the Priesthood,” Rev. Donald B. Cozzens suggested that the priesthood was increasingly becoming a gay profession. Cozzens estimated that as much as 58 percent of priests were gay, and that percentages were even higher for younger priests. His numbers matched previous estimates by sociologists who put the numbers of gay priests between 10 and 60 percent.
“Father Gary Meier, a gay, St. Louis-based Catholic clergymen, says there’s a wide range of statistics out there on gay priests, but jokes that in his experience, “30 percent are gay, 30 percent are straight, and 30 percent are in denial.”
“Meier, who wrote a coming-out book called “Hidden Voices, Reflections of a Gay Catholic Priest,” says he is cautiously cheering Francis’s comments.
Is your priest gay?
Flip a coin.
Odds are 50/50.
To believe it is a small number, you must be in denial of all the evidence, from the Vatican down.