Reply #47: You think this is bad, wait till next month [View All]

I have a friend who works for Harper Collins, which has a book out by a liberal Catholic priest who slams the Vatican for this topic. According to him, in about a month, the Vatican plans to formally begin weeding out priests who may be gay. I was told that they will be assembling an actual team of Vatican officials to visit American churches looking for priests who exhibit gay "tendencies". Whether or not the priests have admitted to being gay or have ever had gay relations is supposedly not even the criteria. They are using the molestation scandals as their justification, even though child molesters have historically predominantly identified as heterosexual (most are married with children), and pedophilia has never had a proven link to homosexuality. Mind you, this claim is only second hand, but if it is true, I think it's horrible. Gays are the scapegoats for of all kinds of "sins" in this political/religious environment, from failing marriages to molestation, to f'ing hurricanes hitting New Orleans. The Vatican is jumping on that bandwagon. Blame the homosexuals, but don't look at their own failings.
Ick.