Identified in the letter below as a "queen!"
He reminds of of Brumster with his pursed lips!!
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LETTERS
NOVEMBER 2002
CORRECTION
Page one of our September issue carried a picture of a priest whom we identified as Bishop Cummins of Oakland. Though taken from a videotape on which Bishop Cummins does appear (flanked by police), the priest pictured was not Bishop Cummins, but Father Richard Mangini. We apologize for the mistake.
BISHOP SHEEN A "SCREAMING QUEEN"?
So much of your "reporting" about the "homosexual crisis" in the church insists on reminding us of the high percentages of homosexual relationships between priests and teenage boys. Yet these articles consistently leave out an important adjective when referring to these cases. That adjective is "reported," as in "reported cases."
It's perfectly logical to assume that a seventeen-year-old girl is less likely to get sympathy, or even seek it, if she has an affair with a priest. In many countries such a relationship is not even illegal. Yet only God knows how much of this has gone on.
If we are to use pornography as a guide, there is a very large male population out there that fantasizes about "barely legal" females. I think we can safely assume that many of these dreamers are more interested in the youth of such teenage girls than they are in the legal boundary of eighteen. No doubt, many of these men are priests and bishops.
Therefore, I assume that your newspaper vigorously supports clerics who have such inclinations. Among other reasons, this is because I have read so much diatribe against those professionals who try to properly frame this recently hot issue as an ephebophile issue rather than a homosexual one. I also haven't read a peep about how these heterosexual ephebophiles should be barred from the seminaries or priesthood. Your paper also rings with an entirely false assumption that all homosexual priests are only interested in younger boys. Get real. If we are to use Christ's guidelines, only the materialistically greedy cannot enter the church. This was made very plain by several teachings of Christ. One of the most explicit ones can be found in Luke 14:33. I've read very little in your supposedly "Catholic" paper about this gravely important issue. I'm assuming this is because your paper is more "right-wing" than it is Catholic. Right-wingers are famous for their greed and concurrent dishonesty regarding it. They are also famous for bigotry, bigotry of the type that your paper shamelessly endorses against even chaste homosexuals.
Incidentally, did it ever occur to you that many saints and holy people had homosexual temptations? There's an old saying: "It takes one to know one." Most gay people I know believe our beloved and saintly Bishop Fulton J. Sheen was a "screaming queen," whether or not he ever acted out on any homosexual inclinations.
Tom Saltsman
received via e-mail
Editor's note: Mr. Saltsman criticizes us only for reporting what has been verified. Would he rather that we reported surmises? Certainly it is "logical" that clerics go after young girls -- in fact, if history is to be trusted, they certainly have been guilty of violating their vows in this fashion. Yet, according to the available evidence, the majority of clergy sex abuse cases have involved young, post-pubescent boys and this suggests homosexual ephebophilia. Mr. Saltsman may not like that, but that is what the available evidence suggests. It is possible that there are many more cases of sex abuse involving young girls, but the evidence to establish such a fact is not yet in. If it makes Mr. Saltsman feel better, we assert that all molesters, whether hetero- or homosexual, should be barred from the seminary. Yet, the current crisis seems of a more homosexual than heterosexual cast.
Mr. Saltsman's reading of the teachings of Jesus is exclusive, indeed. Certainly Our Lord condemned avarice (as did St. Paul, who called it the "root of all evil"); yet, when the rich young ruler asked Jesus, "what must I do to be saved," Our Lord did not simply reply, "obey the commandment, 'do not covet your neighbor's goods'"; rather, He said, "keep the commandments" -- which include prohibitions against lust as well as avarice. When Jesus spared the woman taken in adultery, He did not say, simply, "go in peace," but, "go and sin no more" (presumably referring to the mode in which she had been caught sinning.) St. Paul, too, taught that "neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor the evil-tongued, nor the greedy will possess the kingdom of God." As Catholics, we stand with Jesus and St. Paul. What else does Mr. Saltsman expect us to do? |
