I have to admit that as an adolescent and young man I did sex things with girlfriends and actually had intercourse with a woman.
Yet I represent myself as a gay man.
This is not such a big deal. Probably lots of gay guys had sex with girls when they were young, some even get married to women before they decide to follow their lust.
But reverse it—say a guy who’s had some youthful sex experiences with other guys, yet represents himself as straight.
I suggest it’s easier for a gay guy to admit he’s had sex with women than for a straight guy to admit he’s has sex with other guys.
Anyway, it’s never good for a man to say, “I am not gay.”
US Senator Larry Craig keeps saying it (to guffaws). Now a Vatican priest is saying the same thing.
It’s Monsignor Tommaso Stenico, videotaped making sexual advances toward a young man.
Yet I represent myself as a gay man.
This is not such a big deal. Probably lots of gay guys had sex with girls when they were young, some even get married to women before they decide to follow their lust.
But reverse it—say a guy who’s had some youthful sex experiences with other guys, yet represents himself as straight.
I suggest it’s easier for a gay guy to admit he’s had sex with women than for a straight guy to admit he’s has sex with other guys.
Anyway, it’s never good for a man to say, “I am not gay.”
US Senator Larry Craig keeps saying it (to guffaws). Now a Vatican priest is saying the same thing.
It’s Monsignor Tommaso Stenico, videotaped making sexual advances toward a young man.
As the AP (via IHT) story says:
Monsignor Stenico says he’s not gay—he was pretending to be gay as part of his “research.”While there have long been allegations of gays in the Roman Catholic priesthood, the Stenico case is unusual because he is a relatively high-ranking Vatican official. Stenico heads an office in the Vatican's Congregation for Clergy — the main Vatican office overseeing all the world's priests.
Not the behavior, not the hypocrisy, it’s the sheer stupidity of Monsignor’s explanation that most discredits the Church.
The Vatican ain’t buying it. They shitcanned him.
The story accurately states RCC’s position on gay people.
I guess one way to express compassion is to tell gays and lesbians that they are “intrinsically disordered.”Vatican teaching holds that gays and lesbians should be treated with compassion and dignity but that homosexual acts are "intrinsically disordered."
Funny, I don’t feel intrinsically disordered. I don’t even feel bad about my sex-with-females episodes.
Every once in a while, when someone indicates they assume I’m straight, I’ll disabuse them. Usually I’ll just say I’m gay.
Sometimes, though, I’ll get all haughty and defensive and declare, “I am NOT straight!”
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