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admin — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:30:07 +0000

It looks like those of us in America who are part of the LGBT community could take a lesson from our Aussie brothers and sisters on fighting resistance to equality.

According to a post on 9 News:

Gay rights advocates want to meet with the head of the Catholic church in Australia to discuss why parishioners are being told to oppose same-sex marriage.

Gay lobbyists have written to the Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, concerned about what they call a “destructive” church campaign against same-sex marriage.

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NY Times: Priest & Alter Boys

James — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:00:15 +0000

The priest at the center of a German sexual-abuse scandal that has embroiled Pope Benedict XVI continued working with children for more than 30 years, even though a German court convicted him of molesting boys.

The priest, Peter Hullermann, who had previously been identified only by the first letter of his last name, was suspended from his duties only on Monday. That was three days after the church acknowledged that the pope, then Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger, had responded to early accusations of molestation by allowing the priest to move to Munich for therapy in 1980.

And they wonder why people accuse them of hate, intolerance, bigotry and hypocrisy towards homosexuals!

Gay Priests Are Not the Problem

James — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:00:50 +0000

For much of the past decade it has been an article of faith for many, bolstered by the testimony of thousands of victims, that the Catholic priesthood is a haven for child molesters and that the Catholic bishops have been particularly guilty of covering up for those abusers.

But preliminary results from a sweeping study of sexual abuse in the priesthood show that the Catholic Church has been much like the rest of society in terms of the incidence of abuse and the response by its institutional leaders.

The data, which was presented to the U.S. hierarchy on the second day of their annual meeting here, also appears to contradict the widely held view that homosexuals in the priesthood were largely responsible for the abuse.

“What we are suggesting is that the idea of sexual identity be separated from the problem of sexual abuse,” said Margaret Smith, a researcher from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, which is conducting an independent study of sexual abuse in the priesthood from 1950 up to 2002. “At this point, we do not find a connection between homosexual identity and an increased likelihood of sexual abuse.”

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