SOUNDBITES — "After all, male soccer coaches who have sex with teen girls, and step-fathers who have sex with their step-daughters don’t do it because of 'heterosexuality.
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Want to drop a dime on a professionally closeted priest in Washington, D.C.? Contact ChurchOuting.org.
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Love it -- no matter that the child-raping priests and fornicators are welcome, the homos shouldn't darken the door of the Vatican:
ETN asked the Bishop [Janusz Kaleta of Holy See, the Apostolic Administrator of Atyrau] if the Vatican's stand was clearly against [gay] tourism, and the Bishop answered: "The church teachings are from the Bible.
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Sweden's progressive Lutheran Church is leading the charge for equality, this week ordaining its first openly gay bishop, just a fortnight after giving priests permission to wed same-sex couples.
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Sweden's Lutheran church said Monday it had ordained its first openly gay bishop, just two weeks after it gave priests the right to wed same-sex couples.
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Swedens largest church – the Lutherian Church of Sweden – has voted to allow gay marriages from next month.
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Church of Sweden Priests to Wed Gay CouplesFOXNewsIn May, Sweden introduced a new law giving gay couples the same marriage rights as heterosexuals.
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Swedish church to allow gay marriagesReuters IndiaA church official said individual priests would still not be required to perform gay marriages.
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Church of Sweden Assembly votes to allow gay marriageTVNZA church official said individual priests would still not be required to perform gay marriages.
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• In case you're an Anglican who's tired of all those gay and lady priests, Pope Benedict would love to welcome you into his flock.
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Even a broken Hiatt is right occasionally:
Throughout the autocratic world, there are people fighting back -- priests and poets, honest reporters, incorruptible lawyers.
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From: ReflectionsMatthew 24:6, NIV: You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed.
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Jerry Coyne blogs from the atheist meeting that took place over the weekend: Dan Dennett talked about interviews with active priests and ministers who are atheists, and also mounted a hilarious attack on theologians like Karen Armstrong, who mouth pious.
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(Washington) The Supreme Court refused on Monday to block the release of documents generated by lawsuits against priests in Connecticut for alleged sexual abuse.
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A Vatican official has said that the child sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church was caused by gay men preying on teenage boys, rather than paedophilia.
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A reader writes: I grew up in Boston and was raped by priests beginning at age 6. I just let you into a very small circle.
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Ho boy. It's going to be fun to see the response to this one:
In a defiant and provocative statement, issued following a meeting of the UN human rights council in Geneva, the Holy See said the majority of Catholic clergy who committed such acts were not paedophiles but homosexuals attracted to sex with adolescent males.
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Young priests wait for the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI to serve Sunday mass at the Eastern Czech city of Brno on September 27, 2009.
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Dear "Father" Tony:
Your fanatically anti-Catholic efforts sadden me and I will pray for you because I think you need it desperately.
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