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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? Ther

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.

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.