Vatican official says he was ‘only pretending to be gay’
Vatican official says he was ‘only
pretending to be gay’
A Vatican official suspended after being caught on hidden camera making advances to a young man said in an interview that he is not gay and was only pretending to be gay as part of his work.
So, his job description not only requires homophobia; but, hypocrisy.
In an interview with La Repubblica newspaper, Monsignor Tommaso Stenico said he frequented online gay chat rooms and met with gay men as part of his work as a psychoanalyst.
He said that he pretended to be gay in order to gather information about “those who damage the image of the Church with homosexual activity.”
Stenico was secretly filmed making advances to a young man and asserting that gay sex was not sinful. In the Repubblica interview, Stenico said he had met with the young man and pretended to talk about homosexuality “to better understand this mysterious and faraway world which, by the fault of a few people — among them some priests — is doing so much harm to the Church.”
Aside from the usual Stone Age delusions characterizing religion, the Catholic Church’s fixation on every aspect of human sexuality makes them a laughingstock in any educated dialogue.
Posted: Sun - October 14, 2007 at 01:06 PM