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To: Torie
"And so are you, Torie, if you do not think that it matters."

You are too cavalier in dismissing me. Do you pretend not to see the conditional in my statement about you: IF YOU DO NOT THINK IT MATTERS. The issue is not whether YOU think the man was a homosexual or engaged in such acts. The issue is not whether YOU care about it either. The original poster was posting about the claims shouted from the rooftop about this priest, to the effect that he WAS "openly gay" i.e. that he did engage in homosexual acts even though he was a priest. The "unfortunate" thing was that campaign to charaterize him as a"gay priest".

That is where the discussion of his sexuality began. That was character assination and impugning the integrity of the church, catholics, this priest, and most slyly, the firemen. You should not try to paint this as both sides are bad situation. That is where you are detestable if you insist on doing that.

Do not foul the issue by complainng about a discussion of the priest's sexuality. Only one side did that. The other is correcting it by saying it was false. There is no room for you to inject your desire to be morally equivalent.

I am going to speak the truth and say your evident wish to cloud this issue is, indeed, detestable. Calling something as you see it does not relieve you of the responsibility of trying to be responsible and getting it right. Your distillation of my original posting into pablum about " a discussion about sexuality" and your trying to make yourself appear as the victim of mindless "name-calling" only amounts to another indulgence of your moral blindness.

24 posted on 08/18/2002 6:01:28 PM PDT by ontos-on
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To: ontos-on
That is a very well written and cogent post. But I stand on my prior briefs, and give you the last word. It is now up to the public square to pass judgment.
27 posted on 08/18/2002 6:28:44 PM PDT by Torie
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