VERSION|0.5.1|SUBJECT|To the 1,000 Priests|CONTENT|In response to the 1,000 Catholic priests who signed the [url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9795680/Gay-marriage-could-signal-return-to-centuries-of-persecution-say-1000-Catholic-priests.html]letter to the Catholic Daily Telegraph[/url] protesting about gay marriage, I just want to say this.

[B]WE GET IT! WE KNOW YOU HATE THE GAYS!.[/B]

You&#039;ve been telling us for years. We knew as soon as you tried to close your adoption agencies. It was clear from that alone that you would always put the interests of your church ahead of even the needs of vulnerable children - actually, [url=http://sethlangsonlaw.com/blog/conclusive-evidence-discovered-of-the-catholic-church%E2%80%99s-history-of-protecting-priests-who-were-child-abusers.html]we already knew that[/url].

The [url=http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/archives/001565.html]Scottish[/url] and [url=http://www.catholic-ew.org.uk/Home/News-Releases/2005/Statement-on-Civil-Partnerships]English[/url] bishops&#039; hostility to Civil Partnerships was pretty unambiguous.

We got a pretty strong hint in 2008, when the Pope, in his Christmas message, warned us that gay rights was worse for the planet than [url=http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/12/pope-shows-his-ignorance-of-ec.html]any ecological disaster[/url], what with it causing the worldwide baby shortage and everything. 

The penny really began to drop when Cardinal Keith O&#039;Brien [url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/9121424/We-cannot-afford-to-indulge-this-madness.html]compared gay marriage to the reintroduction of slavery[/url].

Just to make sure there wasn&#039;t any doubt, we got further Christmas messages from [url=http://www.salon.com/2012/12/21/the_popes_hateful_christmas_message/]His Holiness[/url], the [url=http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/12/25/archbishop-of-westminsters-christmas-message-same-sex-marriage-plan-is-an-orwellian-shambles/]Archbishop of Westminster[/url] (who&#039;s getting impatient for his overdue cardinal&#039;s hat), and the [url=http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2012/12/24/bishop-compares-coalition-to-nazis-over-gay-marriage-reforms]Bishop of Shrewsbury[/url], for whom it was no exaggeration that gay marriage was literally worse than Hitler and Stalin combined.

[b]HONESTLY, WE GET IT! YOU CAN STOP REPEATING YOURSELVES NOW![/b]

We really feel for you. You&#039;ve been persecuted by The Gays since the reformation and even before. There was me thinking it was the other way about. Oh, how blind I&#039;ve been.

For centuries you were excluded from the professions in Britain. I can understand how you might fear that happening again. Catholic doctors might be prevented from telling gay patients how disordered they are. Catholic lawyers might never again be able to tell gay clients that they are an abomination against God&#039;s law. Catholic teachers might not even be allowed to tell gay children that they should forget about sharing their life with a loving partner. Yes, I can see how you suffer. I can see how you&#039;re the victim in this.

To the closet gay priests who signed that letter, don&#039;t worry, I understand. I understand why you became a priest as the only respectable way to avoid marriage (that&#039;s [i]proper[/i], heterosexual marriage of course - you know, with a woman). I understand the need for your hypocrisy. I understand the terrible mistake you made. I really do understand your bitterness. I understand your need to project your self loathing onto those who now lead happy and loving lives with partners of the same sex. 

And to the three quarters of English priests who didn&#039;t sign that letter, well done, you&#039;ve put people before dogma, which is what Jesus of Nazareth always taught.

To the rest of you.

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