Priest Who Says Being Gay is Normal Banned from Writing

Conservative - and some might argue, demented - Christians are continuing their rear guard effort of trying to stop the spreading acceptance of the fact that homosexuality is a natural occurring phenomenon in nature. The anti-modernity crowd likewise refuse to accept that all of the LEGITIMATE medical and mental health experts (i.e., those not funded by wingnut organizations) have concluded that sexual orientation is not something that is a choice or that can be changed. A new example of this ultimately losing battle is the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican (known as the Inquisition in past centuries) command that a priest who accepts modern knowledge no longer be allowed to publish any of his writings. The move echos that of Benedict XVI's predecessors who tried to silence those who said the earth was round and not flat and did likewise to those who said the earth orbited the sun rather than vice versa. One would think that given Church's centuries long record of being incredibly wrong on so many things, the Nazi Pope and his minions would have perhaps learned something. But such is not the case. This latest target of the Vatican's anti-modernity and anti-knowledge wrath is Capuchin priest Fr. Owen O’Sullivan who had the timidity to write that same-sex attraction is simply a facet of the human condition. Here are highlights from the Irish Times:
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AN IRISH Catholic priest has been banned by the Vatican from publishing any more of his writings after he suggested homosexuality is “simply a facet of the human condition”.
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This follows an article on homosexuality by Capuchin priest Fr Owen O’Sullivan, published in last March’s edition of the Furrow magazine. Described as “a journal for the contemporary Church”, the Furrow is published at St Patrick’s College Maynooth.
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Throughout history “same-sex attraction and acts have been a consistent feature of human life . . . Same-sex attraction is simply a facet of the human condition,” he said. He recalled church teaching says it is not wrong to be gay, ‘‘but it is wrong to act gay”. He suggested: “Imagine someone saying... ‘There’s nothing in itself wrong with being Irish... But that doesn’t mean you may act on it. So, no more Guinness, going to Croke Park, singing rebel songs into the early hours of the morning, waving Tricolours, no more craic.”
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The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican contacted the Capuchin secretary general in Rome with an instruction Fr O’Sullivan was no longer to write for publication without first having his articles approved by it.
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Capuchin headquarters in Rome contacted Fr O’Sullivan’s superiors. Contacted by The Irish Times , Fr O’Sullivan did not feel free to discuss it nor did Fr Ronan Drury, editor of the Furrow .
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The Catholic Church is losing membership all over the educated areas of the world. Idiocy like this situation will only serve to accelerate the Church's decline in the developed world (perhaps not a bad thing) and ultimately leave Catholicism as a religion of the ignorant and uneducated.