Article: Gland inquisitor: Pope Benedict's anti-gay tendencies.(Pope Benedict XVI)(Reprint)

THE VATICAN'S NEW POLICY on gay priests has been leaked. Officially, it proposes the incorrigibility of deeply rooted gay tendencies. Unofficially, it exposes the deeply rooted, incorrigible anti-gay tendencies of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, aka Pope Benedict XVI.

For decades, while moderate clerics defended celibate gay priests, Ratzinger pressed for a purge of homosexuality not merely as an act or a lifestyle but as an orientation. Now he's in charge, and he's got ambitions beyond the church. He wants to cleanse us all, inside and out.

To its credit, the Vatican has sought to incorporate modern psychology and biology in its discussions of homosexuality. ...

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