Catholic Church "Tests" for Gay Priests in Australia

At last the Vatican has said it! Homosexuality (as an orientation) 'is a type of deviation'. So not only is acting on it immoral, but the orientation is too. So, Your Holiness, a homosexual is a deviant human being, to his core. Do I hear the crash of a Nazi boot? So much for 'love the sinner but hate the sin'. As a Catholic and a gay, I am enraged and ashamed of my Church.

This is so terribly absurd! I am a Roman Catholic who can assure you that a great majority of the really hot and sexy priests are gay. The gay priests are not usually practicing celibacy, nor should they be! The relatively few heterosexual ones are not! There are exceptions! If you find an unsually boring or ultra-conservative priest, the man is either celibate or asexual. Repression of the very natural sexual instincts leads to the problems which have plagued the Catholic Church. There is absolutely no basis for requiring celibacy, and this tyrant of a Pope had better realize it and make the necessary changes before there is no Catholic Church left at all! John XXIII was undoubtedly on the verge of changing this man made law. He just didn't live long enough to craft the Church we need in the 21st Century.

OK, I attended a protestant seminary. (fundamentalist). All seminary candidates were required to take psychological tests that would screen for gay candidates. One of my class mates got through and he later was arested as a pedophile. I got through the process and I was a closet gay man. And several others did too. So much for the tests. The tests were crazy. One question was - do you view porn, if so do you get sexually stiumulated. A no brainer, right? To say no, you don't view porn would get you labeled "questionable". So of course we all answered - yeah.... bring on the porn! I was ordained and served 15 years before I had to get out of this environment that was just so wrong. Yes... God loves us just the way we are. We are His creation and he makes no mistakes!

This just SHAMEFUL and this crazy Pope must go. To prevent a celibate gay man from serving the church is just WRONG! What ever happened to the church saying that homosexuality is not a sin, but homosexual activity (sex) is what leads to sin. (not that I even agree with this). So how then can we respect church leadership who prevents a celibate man from serving???

Scary that they think they know how to test for gay priests. I suppose this will leave us without fems, but with some dishy looking butch numbers: strong jaw line, clear eyes, lean body - seems to remind me of something. . . or perhaps they should still let the suspect one's in, but just make them wear a pink triangle, or stripy cassock or whatever

Just another reason re-affirming my 'recovering catholic' mentality. Again this church proves I was right.

Now when are they going to start do psyche test to weed out the pedophiles, which Herr Pope knows are usually straight men. Thats right Nazi's believed experimenting with people unable to defend themselves was good science. No matter how he tries to explain it away Pope Benedict cannot deny that he was a member of the Nazi party during WW II and was responsible for reporting Jews for arrest and experimentation. The Catholic Church is now led by the father of lies so people Armeggedon is upon us.

I know the Catholic Church needs a new Pope. This one is a real nut. How can you test someone to see if they are gay? I am 73 years old and I would know how to fudge any test made on my gayness. At my age I would propably pass a picture test as well although I love Mariska Hagerty and the Gay Prosecutor from SVU. Now, about His Holiness's remarks about condoms. I wonder how many people he has personaly cared for with Aids? I wish the Advocate would just ignore this idiot and stop raising my blood pressure.

'The catholic church just ends up looking like the biggest closet case. I thought religion was supposed to bring people together. ' very true and what kinda shitty guidelines are they using?(Like asking a horny hunk to stand naked while observing that the potential priest's shaft, stands or not.)its not only ridiculous but really really lame.

So Herr Papenfuehrer R-R-Ratzinger is weeding out the "gay-looking" boys (but maybe not all the really pretty ones). And just how will they "test" for sexual orientation?? As someone already noted, they've passed the test for stupidity with flying colors.