Ughh

Arguments against ordaining gay men into the priesthood should never use analogies such as this one.

But like the vine-dresser pruning in his vineyard, we know that stressing the vine now will produce more intense grapes later and that a lower yield of grapes per acre intensifies the wine’s taste and quality. Likewise, a smaller but healthier body of priests now, men in whose mental, emotional, and spiritual health we can have some assurance, will mean a healthier-—and more numerous—-body of priests later.

And read this article that Bettinelli links to at your own peril. The general gist is that priests who die of AIDS should be ostracized and vilified by the Church because their disease obviously shows they are goddamn sinning homos who should perish in the fires of hell. That Catholic liberals are promoting homosexual ordination in order to replace "ecclesiastical authority with personal experience as the norm derivative of authentic faith" (fancy way of saying placing more emphasis on self-realization as opposed to Church authorities in regard to spiritual matters). The author calls for the laity to act like the gestapo and "challenge" priests who leave the rectory not wearing clerical clothing as they migh be about to engage in unnatural vice. To summarize: gays are sexual deviant scum that should not be allowed near the priesthood, and it is every good Catholics job to sniff them out and hunt them down.

What shitheads. And to think that the Vatican is beginning to step in line with these nutjobs makes me feel ill.