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Voices
T
MICHELANGELO
SIGNORILE
HUFFINGTON
03.03.13
The Fallacy
of the AllPowerful
‘Gay Lobby’
HE NEWS that the UK’s most senior Catholic cleric, the
anti-gay Cardinal Keith O’Brien, has resigned over allegations of unwanted sexual advances on priests, combined
with last week’s reports of a secret gay cabal within the
Vatican that supposedly pushed Pope Benedict to resign,
is explosive. The stunning news certainly bolsters the
argument that the Catholic Church is in crisis and that
the pope’s resignation is reflective of that fact, but it’s
important to separate the sensationalism in this rapidly
developing story, not to mention the anti-gay bias, from
the facts and the probabilities. ¶ First off, the idea that
an all-powerful “gay lobby” forced Pope Benedict to resign, as some of the international media reports have insinuated, is pretty ludicrous. If there really were such an
influential gay cabal, you’d better believe that Cardinal
Cardinal
Keith O’Brien
was pushed
to resign
by the Pope
last week.