{"id":435,"date":"2002-10-09T20:56:10","date_gmt":"2002-10-10T00:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=435"},"modified":"2002-10-09T20:56:10","modified_gmt":"2002-10-10T00:56:10","slug":"out-poofters-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"Out poofters out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/20021008.htm\" title=\"Catholic News Service Report\">decided<\/a> that homosexuality is to be extirpated from the priesthood. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewsullivan.com\/main_article.php?artnum=19941128\" title=\"link to his blog\">Andrew Sullivan is upset<\/a>. Two questions.<\/p>\n\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nCan they do it? At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcstar.com\/projects\/priests\/\" title=\"Kansas City Star series on priests with Aids.\">a reasonable estimate<\/a>, 50% of the American priesthood is gay; and such a network will not only resist being defrocked themselves, but will fight back in the seminaries.<\/p>\n\n<p>Would they stamp down on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.natcath.com\/NCR_Online\/documents\/africadocuments.htm\" title=\"National Catholic Reporter backgrounder on priests fucking nuns\">heterosexual<\/a> abuse as hard? I think perhaps the positions are very similar. Some people in Rome would like to, but the central authorities are powerless against the force of local custom and hormones.<\/p>\n\n<p>So, if this policy is to work, it can only be in conjunction with a married priesthood.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican has decided that homosexuality is to be extirpated from the priesthood. Andrew Sullivan is upset. Two questions. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=435\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}