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    Gay rights groups decry Mass. Catholic devil essay

    BOSTON (AP) — Gay rights groups say they're pleased the oldest Roman Catholic newspaper in the United States has retracted an opinion column suggesting the devil may be responsible for gay attraction.

    The column in the Boston archdiocese's The Pilot newspaper was titled "Some fundamental questions on same-sex attraction." It was written by an adviser at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. It said "scientific evidence of how same-sex attraction most likely may be created provides a credible basis for a spiritual explanation that indicts the devil."

    The 182-year-old newspaper withdrew the online column Wednesday and posted the author's apology.

    The gay Catholics group DignityUSA says the column was outrageous and inflicted "tremendous damage on the souls" of gay people.

    The Human Rights Campaign said Thursday it's a shame the archdiocese ran a column ignoring the science about sexual orientation.

     
    • pondini  •  6 mths ago
      who needs a devil or demons when we have men in this world making decisions that cause so much pain, agony and death to others!
      • JorgeM 6 mths ago
        Well said!
      • Wedge 6 mths ago
        whom do you think is influencing/tempting these men. There is opposition in all things and the devil is the influence of sin. He cannot make us sin - that is our choice (to choose right or wrong) BUT he is definitely the one putting evil thoughts in our minds. Homosexuality is acting and thinking against God's laws (God also cannot make us choose as he has given us one of the greatest gifts - Free agency. This life is a test. Those that agree with homosexuality are choosing which side they will serve. As for me and my family - we choose to follow God and his commands.
      • Lt. Frank Drebin 6 mths ago
        The mark of the beast in their foreheads and right hands,thats what drives people to sin and thats why the world is always under the wrath but tender mercies of the Lord until He saves all of His elect until the last day of this heaven and earth
    • Munkee W  •  6 mths ago
      Thomas Jefferson was a hypocrite who wrote that all men were created equal, but refused to free his slaves. Thomas Jefferson was a coward who, even though he held an officer's rank in the Virginia militia turned tail and ran when Virginia was invaded by the redcoats. Thomas Jefferson was fiscally irresponsible and died so deep in debt that all of his property - land and slaves - was taken upon his death to pay his debt, leaving his family destitute. If that's the kind of man you hold up as an icon and role model, no wonder you're a superstitious idiot. We owe as much to low life #$%$ like Jefferson as much as we owe the wandering primitive goatherds who wrote your bible, jackwad.
      • Joseph M 6 mths ago
        U R Dumb, dumb. Your rant is not on this topic at all. Send your comment to the wonderful US Government politicians who "hold" office but don't represent the people.
      • Munkee W 6 mths ago
        I am not dumb. I am capable of speech. You, on the other hand, are at the very least illiterate and quite probably on the very low end of average intelligence for a semi domesticated primate. Politicians most certainly DO represent people, just not necessarily the people who vote for them. They represent the wealthy (their buddies from the club). They represent lobbyists for special interests (who repay them by giving them lucrative "consulting" jobs when their electorate vote them out). They represent big, multi-national corporations (who keep big political donations flowing).

        But my comment regarding Jefferson has nothing to do with the current government. I'm not even sure why it elicited the retarded response it did from you. That comment was aimed at all you yahoos, hayseeds and rednecks who far too often quote Jefferson, as if his words had any legal authority. The only decent words Jefferson ever wrote were those he plagiarized from the philosophers of the Enlightenment - those who lay the rational foundation for the Illuminati.
    • Brian  •  Chicago, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Are all sins caused by the devil or did God give us free will?
      • Douchey Von Douchenburg 6 mths ago
        i think you stumped them on that one
      • AntiMindControl 6 mths ago
        It's kind of a mix of both. Some people give demons the right to dwell with in them, by not accepting Christ. Sometimes Demons can influence people, kind of like whispering in a persons ears and playing their own weaknesses against them. Hope that helps.
      • Douglas 6 mths ago
        we have free will to decide, but without proper nurture of free will we most undoubtedly make unwise decisions.
    • corppigwatcher  •  Fort Myers, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Boston! Isn't that where Cadinal Bernard Law was whisked away by the pope and given refuge in the vatican so as not to be indicted for covering up the sexual abuse that went on in his diocese?
      • Stephen A 6 mths ago
        YES IT IS!!!
      • Walt 6 mths ago
        Massachusetts is a hotbed for pedophiles because they refuse to pass any meaningful legislation that would punish said offenders.
      • buffaloed in TX 6 mths ago
        Was that gay sex abuse?
    • Glen  •  Fair Oaks, United States  •  6 mths ago
      There's a whole lot of priests out there doing the Devil's work then
      • Mike 6 mths ago
        One abusive priest is too many; but don't ignore other professions. The education system. has a much higher percentage of child abuse. Also, many of you guys are right. The church's problem was homosexual priests, not pedifile priests. A big difference.
      • D 6 mths ago
        But the education system isn't publicly demeaning gay people and gay lifestyle while the Catholic Church is still doing it. And no, the problem was and still is pedophile priests and the Church hierarchy's continuing refusal to do everything to stop it while backing the sickos.
    • Keri  •  6 mths ago
      Then priests that molest boys are devils too in your book, so why don't you do something about your own house before complaining about someone else's.
    • Aaron  •  6 mths ago
      I don't know what makes people gay but I know what makes people not Catholic.
    • Kori  •  6 mths ago
      Judge not lest ye be judged...God loves everyone, He doesn't want His children to be harmed, nor does He want His children to harm anyone. We Christians need to be an example, we don't need to condemn others, that is not for us to do. We are to love one another and treat other the way we want to be treated. Turn the other cheek and let God do His work. Pray for those who need it.
    • Biggreyoldman  •  6 mths ago
      People worship religion instead of God. Religion has taken God and trademarked, copywrited and patented God for its own use. It is easier for the church to say God said so rather than to just do Gods will which is to love and help each other. Religion uses Gods name to justify hate.
    • Rick  •  6 mths ago
      The Vatican is correct: The earth is flat and the sun revolves around it.
    • AUGUSTUS MCCRAE  •  6 mths ago
      and the devil is responsible for the retraction as well.
    • Angelsfan4life  •  6 mths ago
      Hmmmmm..using the Catholics words....Am I to assume that,if a Catholic priest sodomises a young boy, then that priest is doing the devils work?
    • legalize420  •  6 mths ago
      Whatever happened to "Judge not,lest ye be judged"?
    • Col Korn  •  6 mths ago
      So can I still use the old "Devil made me do it" excuse?
    • Lulu  •  6 mths ago
      if you believe it say it don`t censor your own religion
    • Awful Golfer  •  Cleveland, United States  •  6 mths ago
      So what about the pedophiles that are dressed up as Catholic priests???!!??
    • Katmandoo  •  6 mths ago
      So is it the devil that continually makes those priests molest little children? Does the devil make the Pope keep protecting the pedophiles? Does this mean the devil runs the Catholic Church?
    • George Pìmpington  •  6 mths ago
      One can steal far more with a Bible than with a gun.
    • todd d  •  6 mths ago
      let's get it right people, pedophiles and homosexuals aren't the same thing. Most pedophlies classify themselves as hetero. Pedophilia is more of a power issue , not a sexual issue.
    • Johnny  •  6 mths ago
      Wait a second let me see if I read this corectly:

      "scientific evidence of how same-sex attraction most likely may be created provides a credible basis for a spiritual explanation that indicts the devil."

      Scientific evidence that indicts the devil? I thought science was only interested in what can be quantified by evidence.
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