The Shame Continues

Andrew Sullivan reports today that the Catholic church is moving forward with their shame inducing position on homeosexual celibate priests.

The archbishop overseeing a Vatican-run inspection of U.S. seminaries said there is no room in seminaries for men with strong homosexual inclinations even if they have been celibate for a decade or more. "I think anyone who has engaged in homosexual activity, or has strong homosexual inclinations, would be best not to apply to a seminary and not to be accepted into a seminary," said Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien, head of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services. Archbishop O'Brien, who is coordinating the visits to more than 220 U.S. seminaries and houses of formation, said even homosexuals who have been celibate for 10 or more years should not be admitted to seminaries. "The Holy See should be coming out with a document about this," Archbishop O'Brien said in an interview with the National Catholic Register newspaper.

So, where these visits made after waves of homosexual priests having been outed? Has their been an increase in homosexual applications to seminaries? Oh, here's why...

The call for the visits came after a wave of abuse allegations and revelations about how dioceses handled those cases.

So once again, the Catholic church has found a scapegoat. I've noted this before. Exactly how is that that gay priests take the fall for the abuses suffered and the COVERUP performed by the church buearocracy?

Its a real shame that a church that proclaims to teach people how to live good and holy lives insists on teaching hate. I continue to disagree with the church, and further, don't think its a sin to do so.