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Mogul:
There is an sympthomatic article on 365gay.com:

"Catholic Church Hit With New LGBT Scandals
by Peter Moore, 365Gay.com London Bureau

May 15, 2006

(London) The Roman Catholic Church was in the midst of damage control on Sunday following the firing of a key aide to the Cardinal in London for being gay and the reported arrest of a top Vatican official in Rome for trying to pick up a gay or transsexual prostitute.

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has reportedly fired his top aide after discovering the man is gay. 

The Mail reports that Stephen Noon's sexuality was discovered when his long-term partner visited him at his office.

"His partner came to the office at the end of the day and was introduced to the Cardinal," a friend of the couple tells The Mail.

"Shortly afterwards the Church made it clear that his sexuality was incompatible with the job he had to do. Since he was the spokesperson for the Cardinal, Murphy-O'Connor clearly felt he had to act because homosexual acts are regarded by the Church as a sin," the friend was quoted as saying.

Noon, 35, joined the Archbishop's staff in 2003. He was previously a press officer for the Scottish Nationalist Party, was handed the brief to improve the Catholic Church's image. The Church was paying him about $70,000 a year.

The cardinal was a leading opponent of Britain's civil partnership law, had opposed to the repeal of Clause 28 - which banned the promotion of homosexuality in schools - and fought against legislation that gave gays and lesbians job and housing protections.

Meanwhile, in Rome, the Vatican is vehemently denying published reports that a senior Church official had been arrested while looking for a male or a transsexual prostitute in an area of the city know for its hustlers.

The Ansa news agency and Italian newspapers report that the 48-year-old priest - whose rank was withheld and who was identified only by the initials CB - works in the office of the secretary of state of the Vatican.

"Information disseminated this morning by newspapers concerning a cleric in service at the Vatican are totally without foundation," a Vatican statement said.

The media outlets are standing by their stories.

©365Gay.com 2006"

K6:

--- Quote from: Mogul on Sun, May 14, 2006, 03:19 ---
A statesman has responsibility for his entire people, not just for those who are smart, healthy and prosperous. He has responsibility for the full spectrum of his folks - even for the weaklings and the criminals, and he shall aim to turn them into usefull members of society. Therefore I would rather agree into your "boot camp" efforts for such "weaklings", than let them run into self-destruction. A carefull psychological treatment is another possibility, and effective one. However, any success of such re-vitalization programms would depend on persuasiveness of friends of such fellows - the state can only pay the bills.


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A statesman of a gay Republic of the future,based on immigration,will not decide of the composition of that immigration.He will have to fend off
with the available and effective migrants,not with theoretical ones.As much as he would want out of lachrymo-humanitarian sentiment save the gay weaklings living under foreign hethro rule,he won`t get them.Because the said weaklings will be too coward to migrate to a gay State.Such a State will draw individuals whose parting with the hethro regime will be clearcut and uncompromising.So that in all likelyhood,there won`t be any necessity to distract government funding and ressources to reeducate weaklings who will anyway not show up.Rather,a gay State might have to reward those gays who first will have stood up to the hethro regime in their countries of origin,and then undertook the sometimes dangerous journey to a gay State.These will have in certain cases to be decorated for their deeds,right on the tarmac of the airport and upon their arrival on sovereign gay soil.

K6

K6:

--- Quote from: Mogul on Sun, May 14, 2006, 03:19 ---
Instead, we are increasingly confronted with gay leaders swaggering about the Catholic Church for regulations excluding gay priests - what the hell did the guys expect? Why shall we wish to be "included" into this homophobic criminal organization?


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Current gay leaders want us to be part of the hethro empire,at a price which I find a little bit too high.They are focussed on the idea of apology for our existence rather than of promotion of that existence itself,and of political independence which should logically follow up.They are too apolitical,and too focussed on the individual and of his accomodation with the foreign hethro regime.They neglect collective interests in the process,and collective interests will eventally catch up with them.They will encounter a competition for which they will be no match,if ever a gay independentist movement appears,develops and gains momentum.

K6

K6:

--- Quote from: Feral on Sun, May 14, 2006, 14:20 ---Ah, but a rope is far stronger than any of its strands.

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One cannot see all the strands of a rope,which could be rotten beneat the surface and about to snap.Whereas all the links of a chain are visible.

K6

Feral:

--- Quote from: K6 on Sun, May 14, 2006, 04:50 ---A chain is never stronger than its weakest link.

K6

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Ah, but a rope is far stronger than any of its strands.

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