David Berger, a German theologian and an expert on St. Thomas Aquinas, in an interview with Der Spiegel says that pervasive homophobia in the Catholic Church proceeds from the inordinate number of closeted priests, calling on the church hierarchy to acknowledge “that a large number of Catholic clerics and trainee priests in Europe and the United States are homosexually-inclined,” that according to a report in the Irish Times. Berger, who is openly gay, said “The worst homophobia in the Catholic Church comes from homophile priest, who are desperately fighting their own sexuality. Obviously, those who follow their urges are repudiated more fiercely when one is so painfully repressing that disposition oneself.”
According to a new BBC documentary, anti-gay, anti-Semantic Saudi Arabian textbooks are being used in British classrooms, the program Panorama finding more than 40 Saudi Students’ School and Clubs teaching the official Saudi national curriculum to an estimated 5,000 pupils. The Saudi government says it has no official ties to the part-time schools and clubs and does not sanction them, however, as the BBC reveals, one of the text books being used is owned by the Saudi government. One of the textbooks asks children to list the “reprehensible” qualities of Jewish people, while another describes the punishment for gay sex as death and states a difference of opinion about whether it should be carried out by stoning, burning with fire, or throwing the homosexual off a cliff.
WCBS 880 News reports on a rally Sunday in the Bronx, dozens of people marching miles calling for an end to hate crimes, ending in front on the abandoned building that in October was the sight of a horrific anti-gay attack against one adult male and two teenage males. Antonio Centano said “For so long the Bronx has been very quiet about LGBT issues. This particular event sparked the feeling to doing something and how you do you do it – you do in it unity.”
According to the an item in the New York Post, socialites are “fuming” over art dealer Kipton Cronkite’s seemingly sudden marriage to real estate broker Laurence Kaiser. A source says that the 39 year old Cronkite was still living with a 22 year old student weeks before marrying the 69 year old Kaiser. Cronkite, who, until last year, spelled his last night Cronkhite, says “My relationship with (the student) ended amicably ... I hope one day to introduce him to Larry,” while Larry says “ I am nobody’s fool, Kipton and I are in a real relationship and everyone should stop gossiping.”
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