Originally posted by Mobycat:
Now, if she said this 1-2 days later, then yeah, I'd say she would have known better...there is no doubt she would have been in contact with Chelsea within several hours of the attack. I assume Chelsea has some sort of Secret Service unit still on her.
She said it either on the 12th or 13th. She definitely spoke to her daughter in the interim.
So some firefighters would say he wasn't one because he was gay? What does that have to do with the price of eggs in China?
He wasn't what? He definitely was not a firefighter. He was a gay priest who chose to hang around and associate himself with a male organization. Is that so hard to see the truth? In light of the gay priest problem we should be thankful he didn't choose to become a Boy Scout leader.
Most fireman are good conservative family men. Is it such a stretch for you to fathom that they would prefer a priest who was not an admitted gay to be a minister and representative of their faith to the department?
The fact that Fr. Judge was gay may have possibly been irrelevant to his vocation. The fact that he openly admitted it made it relevant. I know to people like you everything gay is something to be celebrated so you will never see any other side.
A priest is a man of the cloth and is supposed to be a man of God. Priests give up and subjugate thier sexuality in thier committment to God when they take the vow of celibacy. It is not acceptable for a priest to discuss facts of his personal sexuality to those in which he is to minister. That sacrifice of this part of thier human nature is supposed to be indicative of thier committment not only to God and thier faith, but to thier congregation.
A Catholic priest is not supposed to be sexual nevertheless homosexual. When a priest openly admits thier homosexuality they openly declare more than a modicum of rebellion not only to the very Church and it's beliefs that they have avowed but they also violate the sanctity of the priesthood as a whole.
When a normal man becomes a priest he sacrifices his sexuality for God, his faith, his church and his congregation. His sexuality is part of his past. Is it too much to ask the same of a homosexual who happens to become a priest?
(Please... no comments from the atheists about the problems with the abusive priests. We all know they were gay).
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