James Finn
2 min readJan 19, 2024

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As a gay man whom the Catholic Church automatically condemns as literally depraved and disordered, all I can say is, "Hear hear!"

The Church is obsessed with human sexuality and condemning/prohibiting sexual expression that falls outside they're narrow views of what is religiously acceptable.

Not very long ago at all, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops lobbied Congress to kill the proposed National Suicide Hotline because part of the program reached out directly to suicidal LGBTQ people. They wanted that outreach either eliminated or the bill to fail to pass. (While this was happening, the Secretary General of the conference was using Grindr almost daily to arrange sexual assignations with other men. And he was using Church funds to go to expensive gay sex clubs in Las Vegas and other cities.)

All across the United States in the last few years, Catholic bishops have been conducting witch hunts against transgender, lesbian, and gay employees in their schools and social service agencies. They've even bullied Catholic high School students by threatening to withhold their diplomas if they spoke up publicly and support of gay Catholic employees.

US Catholic bishops have begun to embrace conversion therapy, notably in the Archdiocese of Denver, but in many other dioceses as well.

Where I live in Michigan, gay men who marry one another aren't even allowed to be buried in a Catholic cemetery. Or participate in any other sacrament of the Church.

I don't know what it is about Catholic priests, but they just can't keep their creepy noses out of uteruses and sex lives.

This is despite the fact that it disproportionate number of Catholic priests (reportedly) are gay, or in their sickening vocabulary, "struggling with same-sex attraction.)

These people are cruel and despicable.

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James Finn
James Finn

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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