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This reminds me of the time Irish bishops stopped sending trainees to Ireland's priest training seminary because of how active it was on Grindr [1]. [1] https

• dbspin 4y ago
  Small anecdote. I have a gay friend who lives in Maynooth (where the seminary in the article exists, alongside a regular university). Right after moving there a few years back he noted, not without some amusement, that few of the hundreds of grinder profiles in the area contained pictures with faces. Virtually all the pictures were of torsos.
  • pkkim 4y ago
    Fwiw I think SF Bay Area Grindr is mostly torsos as well.
    • dbspin 4y ago
      Interesting, why do you think that is? As a straight guy, facial appearance would be extraordinarily important for me - even for a hookup. Is it not as much of a priority, or are people still closeted / afraid of being catfished?
• MisterBastahrd 4y ago
  It reminds me of my high school English teacher who would give high scores to boys he was attracted to. The next year, when we had him again and it was obvious that nobody was interested in his advances, the scores mysteriously dropped 20 points for the same type of work. A childhood friend who had attended a Mississippi boarding school transferred back to our school system in the second half of our junior years after having picked up a dope habit over there. He freaked out the first time he saw this particular teacher because the man had a habit of spending the weekend with the priests at the boarding school.
  • automatoney 4y ago
    It is questionable that a story about priests using a gay dating app for adults reminds you of... a pedo English teacher you had who hung out with priests? There's a long history of people equating being LGBTQ+ with being groomers, pedophiles and sex offenders, and those stereotypes and false beliefs about one being related to the other are part of what leads to the homophobia that forces priests to be closeted. Perhaps the teacher was around the priests for sex offender reasons? It just seems odd to me to being up pedo stuff on stories about gay people facing discrimination.
    • Fatnino 4y ago
      It read to me like the advances were made the next year when the students were presumably 18
      • MisterBastahrd 4y ago
        Yes. Also, the prohibition on homosexual relationships drives gays and lesbians has been the Catholic church's not so secret tool to maintaining an adequate number of Mass performers. I know 7 gay men from high school classes before and after my own. One is Baptist. One is an atheist. The rest are either in or are former members of the Catholic clergy. Why? Because the area I grew up in was exceedingly Catholic and conservative, and the priesthood has been seen by people as a good way to repress those urges, regardless of the ultimate outcome. The evangelical culture wars are simply coming to Catholicism, because there is a large segment of the US Catholic population who have chosen to mix religion and political identification, and the results in the US will be absolutely catastrophic. Not only are young gay Catholics no longer willing to live their entire lives in the closet, but the church refuses to give up its weird fixation on the chastity of priests. People are following their own common sense, and it's causing parishes to collapse from a lack of human and material resources. On one hand, you've got bomb throwers who see apostasy and want to root it out wherever they see it, and on the other hand you've got a clergy who preaches one thing and does another out of necessity.
  • rxduo 4y ago
• TRiG_Ireland 4y ago
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