By the way, it\u2019s not just American bishops that Don\u2019t Get It<\/b><\/p>\n
Many in the gay community don\u2019t get it either. Take, for example, this stunningly clueless guy name <\/a>Brian Halderman<\/a>. He seems to think there\u2019s something weird about lots and lots of people connecting the dots between his complete contempt for chastity and orthodoxy (a contempt he shares with Paul Shanley), abuse of boys, boys, boys, boys, boys, boys and boys, and the priest scandals. It\u2019s all a witch hunt, says he and he is a put-upon man to be pitied, not a clueless buffoon to be rebuffed. Sounds rather like Rembert Weakland, Cardinal Law or Mahony, don\u2019t it? And if the preternaturally stupid bishop John \u201cI didn\u2019t notice anything unusual about Shanley\u2019s publicly advocating Man Boy Love\u201d McCormack of New Hampshire is a flaming fool for using this image <\/a>in a healing mass for victims of priestly abuse, how many orders of magnitude dumber do you have to be to put links to your Halloween party with gay guys dressed as campy nuns and priests on your website <\/a>and whine when nobody thinks that you would be a great candidate for clerical or religious life? <\/p>\n Like I say, this is a crisis for the clueless ecclesiocracy in the US, to be sure. But it\u2019s also a crisis for the gay community that does not seem to get it any more than Law does when he gets riled at his negligence and insensitivity being named as such. A Clue for the clueless Mr. Halderman: it\u2019s not a witch hunt. It\u2019s common sense. There is a connection between a gay subculture that holds chastity and orthodoxy in contempt and abuse of boys, boys, boys, boys, boys and boys.<\/p>\n