{"id":1247,"date":"2006-02-09T17:24:45","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T21:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2006\/02\/09\/seriously-now\/"},"modified":"2006-02-09T17:24:45","modified_gmt":"2006-02-09T21:24:45","slug":"seriously-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2006\/02\/09\/seriously-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Seriously now&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1210'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad to see <a href=\"http:\/\/villagevoice.com\/news\/0606,lombardi,72095,6.html\">someone moving to confront the RC Church&#8217;s hangup over sex and sexuality<\/a>.  And the content of the lawsuit is potentially explosive:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Halfway through the 44-page complaint, the priest-turned-advocate drops a bomb on the cardinal: He alleges that [New York archbishop Edward Cardinal] Egan is &#8220;actively homosexual,&#8221; and that he has &#8220;personal knowledge of this.&#8221; His suit names two other top Catholic clerics in the region as actively gay&#x2014;Albany bishop Howard Hubbard and Newark archbishop John Myers.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that Hoatson has a problem with, as the suit puts it, &#8220;consensual, adult private sexual behavior by these defendants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No, what Hoatson claims is that, as leaders of a church requiring celibacy and condemning homosexuality, actively gay bishops are too afraid of being exposed themselves to turn in pedophile priests. The bishops&#8217; closeted homosexuality, as the lawsuit states, &#8220;has compromised defendants&#8217; ability to supervise and control predators, and has served as a reason for the retaliation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does any serious person believe that Catholic priests are straight?  Cardinals and bishops seem even more likely.  Do straight men say, &#8220;I fell in love with the liturgy at a young age&#8221; (as Benedict XVI has said)?<\/p>\n<p>None that I can think of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m glad to see someone moving to confront the RC Church&#8217;s hangup over sex and sexuality. And the content of the lawsuit is potentially explosive: &#8230;Halfway through the 44-page complaint, the priest-turned-advocate drops a bomb on the cardinal: He alleges that [New York archbishop Edward Cardinal] Egan is &#8220;actively homosexual,&#8221; and that he has &#8220;personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rayleejun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-k7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}