Bullying Is A Good Word for What They Are Doing - Blackmail is Another

GAY ACTIVISTS BULLY D.C. PRIESTS

November 20, 2009
Catholic League president Bill Donohue addresses a serious issue involving gay activists in the District of Columbia:
A new homosexual website, ChurchOuting.org, is intent on publicly disclosing who the gay priests are in the Archdiocese of Washington. The goal of this outing is to intimidate gay priests, as well as heterosexual priests who may be “romantically involved,” into voicing objections to the Catholic Church’s opposition to gay marriage.
This initiative is the work of Phil Attey, self-described as “Liberal-Gay-Ardent Obama Supporter”; he was active in the Obama Pride Metro-DC campaign. According to one news report, “Attey is going to approach priests he thinks are gay, and warn them that they better stop lobbying against gay people, seeing how gay they are…or…else?”
Catholic priests are also being pressured to sign the “Declaration of Religious Support for Marriage Equality,” a statement by Clergy United for Marriage Equality. The statement, while it is not one we support, is respectfully written. Accordingly, we will write to members of the Steering Committee of this group asking them to dissociate themselves from this attempted hijacking of their effort.
The Catholic League is prepared to assist any priest in the Archdiocese of Washington who is the victim of harassment, intimidation or stalking. Whatever resources the priest needs, we will see to it that he is served. If radical gay activists want a showdown with the Catholic League, we will not disappoint them.

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If a priest is actively homosexual, or even actively in a heterosexual relationship, then he has betrayed his vows he took at ordination & should not be functioning as a Catholic priest. What they are doing is wrong.

But doing something like this is also wrong. Outing them will never change the Catholic Church's teaching on gay marriage. The Catholic Church has opposed it for 2000 yrs & will do so until Jesus returns at the end of time. The Catholic Church can take no other stand & still be the Catholic Church.

As someone who has been falsely accused of being gay growing up & even at times as an adult, I find things like this esp objectionable. I know the hurt & damage that false accusations can do. That is exactly the harm that something like this could create for innocent priests. Those that are guilty, as I said, shouldn't be functioning in the 1st place, but stopping them from functioning isn't what this is about. Radical gay activists don't want to stop gay priests from being actively homosexual, they want to attack Church teaching & change it by using blackmail to bring people to their side.