God's Rottweiler chews GAYS in Spain

My GAY friends in England suggest I post this 2006 news when Benedict XVI, the worst opponent to GAY marriage, went to Spain and chewed on GAYS. What the pope refuses to see is that the people in Spain are for GAY marriage.



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'God's Rottweiler' Chews At Gay Marriage

Pope Benedict XVI lived up to his ‘Rottweiler’ nickname this weekend when he chewed into gay marraige and Spain’s Socialist government. Like the infamous dog breed he’s been equated with, Pope Benedict indicated that having sunk his teeth into Spain’s newfound secularism, he’s not about to loosen the bite.

Benedict was on a whistle-stop tour, that saw him in Valencia for 26 hours to conclude a Vatican fuelled gathering on family issues. He savaged gay marriage before even getting off his papal plane from Rome. Questioned on the role of gay marriage in society, the pope told reporters: "According to human nature, it is man and woman who are made for each other and to give humanity a future."

Critics have been swift to point out that an old man who’s experienced neither relationships, nor much life outside the church is unlikely to be the most qualified advisor on the subject of love and marriage. Regardless of this screaming anomaly, nearly 1.5m devotees turned out to hear his erroneous diatribe.

"The family is a unique institution in God's plan, and the church cannot fail to proclaim and promote its fundamental importance," Benedict said on his arrival.

As he arrived for his speedy pitstop, the Pope was greeted at the airport by King Juan Carlos, Queen Sofia and Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.

Since his appointment in March 2004, Zapatero has completely liberalized Spain from its Catholic shackles and successfully steered the country into a secular fast lane.

The Pope’s visit comes a year after the Spanish government legalised gay marriage, sparking a sour dispute with Spain's Catholic bishops and the Vatican.

Another slap to the Vatican’s tenacious face, has been an easing of restrictions on both abortion and divorce, coupled with the rejection of plans by a previous, conservative government to make religion classes mandatory in public schools.

Spain was the first European country to allow gay marriage and the freedom for couples to adopt children.

The head of the Vatican's Pontifical Council on the Family, Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, denounced the legislation as profoundly iniquitous. If that has you reaching for the dictionary, don’t bother, it means ‘wicked’ and unfair.

The Pope and Zapatero met on Sunday evening, but it’s likely to have been deaf ears and cold shoulders all round. Much to the Vatican’s chagrin, Mr Zapatero didn’t attend Sunday's papal mass. [Gay-com-uk]

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Convicted Iraqi Billionaire Gave Obama Millions

Barack Obama’s “squeaky clean” reputation is once again being tarnished by shady entrepreneurs who have supported him financially, this time a convicted Iraqi billionaire who funneled millions to the Illinois senator in 2005.

A British newspaper has published a lengthy story on the scandal, which connects the Democratic presidential candidate and his indicted longtime Syrian financial supporter (currently on trial for corruption) with one of Britain’s richest people, a criminal Iraqi guru named Nadhmi Auchi.

It turns out that Auchi, convicted in Europe for operating a massive kickback scheme, gave Obama $3.5 million just weeks before the senator purchased a pricey mansion in an exclusive Chicago neighborhood. Auchi funneled the money to Obama through the senator’s friend and campaign bankroller, Antoin Rezko, the Syrian businessman charged with influence peddling, extortion and conspiracy.

A loyal Obama supporter for years, Rezko is on trial for plotting to squeeze millions of dollars in kickbacks out of firms seeking state business. He had been free on bail since being indicted last year, but was subsequently arrested and ordered to remain in jail after receiving a multi million-dollar wire from Beirut that led authorities to think he planned to flee to the Middle East.

It was Rezko who introduced Obama to Auchi, convicted in France in 2003 for operating what has been described as the biggest political and corporate scandal in post-war Europe. The legal problems didn’t deter Obma from taking Auchi’s money nor have they affected his empire. Auchi is reportedly among Britain’s wealthiest men and one of the richest people in the world, according to Forbes Magazine.

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From The TimesFebruary 26, 2008

Mansion 'mistake' piles the pressure on Barack Obama

Timesonline.co.UK

A British-Iraqi billionaire lent millions of dollars to Barack Obama's fundraiser just weeks before an imprudent land deal that has returned to haunt the presidential contender, an investigation by The Times discloses.

The money transfer raises the question of whether funds from Nadhmi Auchi, one of Britain’s wealthiest men, helped Mr Obama buy his mock Georgian mansion in Chicago.

A company related to Mr Auchi, who has a conviction for corruption in France, registered the loan to Mr Obama's bagman Antoin "Tony" Rezko on May 23 2005. Mr Auchi says the loan, through the Panamanian company Fintrade Services SA, was for $3.5 million.

Three weeks later, Mr Obama bought a house on the city's South Side while Mr Rezko's wife bought the garden plot next door from the same seller on the same day, June 15.

Mr Obama says he never used Mrs Rezko's still-empty lot, which could only be accessed through his property. But he admits he paid his gardener to mow the lawn.

Mrs Rezko, whose husband was widely known to be under investigation at the time, went on to sell a 10-foot strip of her property to Mr Obama seven months later so he could enjoy a bigger garden.

Mr Obama now admits his involvement in this land deal was a “boneheaded mistake”.

Mrs Rezko’s purchase and sale of the land to Mr Obama raises many unanswered questions.

It is unclear how Mrs Rezko could have afforded the downpayment of $125,000 and a $500,000 mortgage for the original $625,000 purchase of the garden plot at 5050 South Greenwood Ave.

In a sworn statement a year later, Mrs Rezko said she got by on a salary of $37,000 and had $35,000 assets. Mr Rezko told a court he had "no income, negative cash flow, no liquid assets, no unencumbered assets [and] is significantly in arrears on many of his obligations."

Mrs Rezko, whose husband goes on trial on unrelated corruption charges in Chicago on March 3, refused to answer questions about the case when she spoke by telephone to The Times.

Asked if she used money from her husband to buy the land next to Mr Obama's house, she said: "I can't answer these questions, I'm sorry."

Asked how long she and her husband had known Mr Auchi, she replied: "I will not be able to answer this question."

Mr Auchi's lawyer, asked whether the Fintrade Services loan was used to buy the land which became Mr Obama's garden, stated: "No, not as far as my client is aware."

Mr Auchi's links with Mr Rezko are a new political headache for Mr Obama, the charismatic Illinois senator vying to become America’s first African-American president.

Hillary Clinton has sought to make Mr Rezko, who has bankrolled Mr Obama's political career since his first run for the Illinois state senate in the mid-1990s, into an election issue by calling him a "slum landlord" in a televised debate. She has repeatedly suggested that Mr Obama has effectively not been "vetted" by media scrutiny and will not withstand "the Republican attack machine".

Bill Burton, a spokesman for Mr Obama, told The Times: “The bottom line is Obama does not recall ever meeting him [Mr Auchi].”

The house-and-garden deal raised questions about whether Mr Rezko, a property developer and fast-food restauranteur, made it possible for the Obamas to purchase a mansion they could otherwise not afford.

Mrs Rezko paid the asking price for the garden but the Obamas bought the house for $1.65 million, - $300,000 less than the asking price. The sellers deny they offered the Obamas a discount on the house because the garden had fetched full price from Mrs Rezko.

Mr Rezko has since been indicted for allegedly scheming to pressure companies seeking business with the state of Illinois for kickbacks and contributions to the governor Rod Blagojevich's campaign. He goes on trial on March 3.

A prosecution document filed last month alleged that a "political candidate" - identified by the Chicago Sun-Times as Mr Obama - received a $10,000 campaign contribution from what is said to be a $250,000 kickback in the corruption case. That means Mr Obama's name could figure in Mr Rezko's trial, although he is not accused of any wrongdoing.

Mr Obama insists he never used his office to do favours for Mr Rezko but admits that, as an Illinois state senator, he once wrote letters to housing officials urging them to provide money in support of a proposed apartment building for elderly people which Mr Rezko wanted to build.

Mr Obama has publicly sought to atone for his closeness to Mr Rezko, paying $150,000 to charity to distance himself from a man accused of political corruption.

The spotlight fell on Mr Rezko's ties to Mr Auchi last month when the Chicago businessman was thrown in jail for violating his bail terms by failing to declare a different $3.5 million loan from the British billionaire, made in April 2007. Prosecutors feared Mr Rezko, who travels widely in the Middle East, might flee to a country without an extradition treaty such as his birthplace of Syria.

Mr Auchi was convicted of corruption, given a suspended sentence and fined £1.4 million in France in 2003 for his part in the Elf affair, described as the biggest political and corporate scandal in post-war Europe. He, in a statement from his media lawyers, claims he is appealing against the sentence.

Mr Auchi founded his Luxembourg-based General Mediterranean Holding (GMH) in 1979, a year before he left Iraq. He says that he did business with his native country when it was considered a friend of the West but ceased to trade with the late Saddam Hussein's regime once sanctions were imposed after the invasion of Kuwait.

Mr Rezko has told a court that Mr Auchi is a "close friend." Mr Auchi's lawyer told The Times: "It is untrue that my client and Mr Rezko are 'close friends'. Mr Auchi first met Mr Rezko after the 2003 Iraq war and they have a business relationship."

Mr Rezko and Mr Auchi have been partners in a pizzeria business in the Mid-West and a major 62-acre land development in Riverside Park in Chicago.

According to court documents, Mr Rezko's lawyer said his client had "longstanding indebtedness" to Mr Auchi's GMH. By June 2007 he owed it $27.9 million.

Under a Loan Forgiveness Agreement described in court, Mr Auchi lent Mr Rezko $3.5 million in April 2005 and $11 million in September 2005, as well as the $3.5 million transferred in April 2007.

That agreement provided for the outstanding loans to be "forgiven" in return for a stake in the 62-acre Riverside Park development.

A posting last week on a GMH-owned website, middle-east-online.com, portrayed Mr Auchi as a Middle Eastern "Donald Trump" with a global business construction empire.

Mr Auchi visited the United States in 2004. Pictures show him meeting Emil Jones, the president of the Illinois state senate, an ally of Mr Obama, a former state senator.

Both Mr Auchi and Mr Obama say they have no memory of meeting each other. But, according to a source, the two may have had a brief encounter at the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago where Mr Auchi’s visit was being honoured with a dinner attended by the Governor when Mr Obama, coincidentally in the hotel, dropped in.

An aide to Mr Obama said he did attend an event at the Four Seasons at which Mr Rezko was present but does not remember meeting Mr Auchi. "He shook a lot of hands and met a lot of people," the aide said. "We do not remember individual people."

Prosecutors say that, after Mr Auchi was unable to enter the United States in 2005, Mr Rezko approached the US State Department to get him a visa and apparently asked "certain Illinois government officials to do the same." Mr Obama denies he was approached. Mr Auchi's lawyer has emphasised to The Times that it would be entirely false to imply that money had been lent by GMH to Mr Rezko in return for Mr Rezko seeking to assist Mr Auchi to obtain a visa. The two men's relationship, the lawyer stressed, was a busines s one.

Mr Auchi's lawyer said the purpose of the Fintrade Services loan was to "assist the financial position" of a pizzeria company called AR Pizza, in which GMH held a shareholding. He said the loan had since been repaid in the form of a greater stake in the Chicago 62-acre land project.

AR Pizza has since become a defendant in a civil lawsuit by the Papa John's pizzeria chain, which alleges that it continued to operate a string of former Papa John's franchises under the name "Papa Tony's" without permission.

Mr Auchi's lawyer said: "My client played no part in the management and/or day to day running of AR Pizza, the GMH Group being an entirely passive investor in the company. Further, there was no need as a mimimum return on the investment was guaranteed. As to the court proceedings, my client is not a party to these. He denies any wrongdoing in relation to his involvement in AR Pizza."

Mr Rezko was also a major fundraiser for Governor Blagojevich. The governor's chief fundraiser Christopher Kelly, who also served as his gambling adviser, is fighting tax charges related to betting losses. The Associated Press reported that last month Mr Auchi's conglomerate also gave a loan to Mr Kelly secured on a Nevada land deal which the governor’s bagman was involved in.


Have your say

Beware American citizens! Vote on policy and the political stance - don't be swayed too much by the spin or you'll regret it, look at what "New Labour" have done in the UK over the past 10 years or so...

Flagging banking, an insecure and scary place to live, a war on "terror" that saps our finances that we can't and will not win, rising living costs, failing health services and schools and an infrastructure under increasing strain from their liberal/haphazard approach to immigration...

ChasNDave, Brampton, Cumbria, UK

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Obama, Freemason, Related
To Both Bush, Cheney

February 13, 2008
by Leo Zagami

Obama outlines his ambitious geopolitical plans in a
recent essay for Foreign Affairs magazine. Foreign
Affairs is published by the Council on
ForeignRelations, which describes itself as a
non-partisan group of which he is a member. Established
in the 1920's and headquartered in New York, its membership includes prominent politicians
and business elite, including heads of academia and media. The
organization seeks to centralize both political power and market power to
craft legislation outside the checks and balances of
democracy.

The CFR is rarely mentioned by the mainstream media...
Obama is also a 32nd degree Prince Hall Freemason
loyal to the Craft and devoted to his principles so
forget about the "changes" and start thinking about the same
old , same old , coming once again into power.

Obama is illuminati aristocracy. his appearence from
'nowhere', and subsequent rocket to the front of the
political line are no coincidence. Believe it or
not, Barack Obama is related to both President Bush
and Vice President Dick Cheney as you can check here:

So the possible scenario is that Hillary might become
the Vice President of Obama at the end of this
political show , but in any case let's enjoy what the
American call Democracy a good show in the hands of
the usual suspects , and remember America the Pope is
coming with His Blessings this spring..ha..ha....and
make sure Brother Obama doesnt miss his Zionist masonic
meetings as he would love to be the main actor in the
reconstruction of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem.

Maybe the next Anti-Christ to hit the US presidential
scene will be darker then some people have expected.

How QUEER is Bush?

Not Holier Than Thou
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Homosexuality & Corruption in US Politics

George Bush and Karl Rove have always used homosexuality as a weapon, have righteously opposed it and have routinely accused people of it, knowing that those people were normal, while all along they have colluded to make the Republican Party a sodomite organization from the top down. That's the theme of the latest, incendiary book by Alan Stang, who says Republican leaders are using homosexuality to terrify critics into silence, so they can bring the United States to its knees.The book is Not Holier Than Thou: How Queer Is Bush, which includes a "Special Section on Dick's Dykes," a revelation available nowhere else of how Mary Cheney, the most famous lesbian in the United States, got to be what she is. Stang says the trouble could have started with Mamma Lynne's lesbian novel, Sisters. "And where was Dick when this cloaca of lesbianism was befouling the family hearth?" Stang asks.

HAPPY VALENTINES, MEN-FRIENDS

Happy Valentines to all my Men-Friends in Europe and USA!

Here's a treat from Westlife, my favorite band, with a lot of GAY Mark Feehily, my look-alike-almost-twin, singing a lot!

Enjoy!

Charles



Westlife - Total Eclipse of the Heart (Live)

GAY actor Cary Grant

Handsome Cary Grant




Cary Grant was one of my mother's favorite leading actor. She'd be rolling in her grave if she knew that he was GAY...




Cary Grant born 18 January 1904 (d. 1986)

Archibald Alexander Leach, better known by his screen name, Cary Grant, was an English film actor. With his distinctive mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, not only handsome, but also witty and charming. He was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time of American cinema by the American Film Institute.

Grant starred in some of the classic screwball comedies, including The Awful Truth with Irene Dunne (the pivotal film in the establishment of Grant's screen persona), Bringing Up Baby with Katharine Hepburn, His Girl Friday with Rosalind Russell and Arsenic and Old Lace with Priscilla Lane. These performances solidified his appeal, and The Philadelphia Story, with Hepburn and James Stewart, presented his best-known screen role: the charming if sometimes unreliable man

Grant was one of Hollywood's top box-office attractions for several decades. He was a versatile actor, who did demanding physical comedy in movies like Gunga Din with the skills he had learned on the stage.

In the mid-1950s, Grant formed his own production company and produced a number of movies distributed by Universal, such as Operation Petticoat, Indiscreet, That Touch of Mink (co-starring Doris Day), and Father Goose.

Grant's personal life was complicated, involving five marriages and speculation about his sexuality.



In 1932 he met fellow actor Randolph Scott on set, and the two shared a rented beach house (known as 'Bachelor Hall') on and off for twelve years. Rumours ran rampant at the time that Grant and Scott were lovers.

Authors Marc Elliot, Charles Higham and Roy Moseley consider Grant to have been bisexual, with Higham and Moseley claiming that Grant and Scott were seen kissing in a public car park outside a social function both attended in the 1960s. In his book, Hollywood Gays, Boze Hadleigh cites an interview with director George Cukor, who said about the alleged homosexual relationship between Scott and Grant: 'Oh, Cary won't talk about it. At most, he'll say they did some wonderful pictures together. But Randolph will admit it – to a friend.'

According to screenwriter Arthur Laurents, Grant was 'at best bisexual'. William J. Mann's book Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969 recounts how photographer Jerome Zerbe spent 'three gay months' (his words) in the movie colony taking many photographs of Grant and Scott, 'attesting to their involvement in the gay scene'. Zerbe says that he often stayed with the two actors, 'finding them both warm, charming, and happy.' In addition, Darwin Porter's book, Brando Unzipped (2006) claims that Grant had a homosexual affair with Marlon Brando.

Many writers seem to have no doubt about the actor's bisexuality; Grant, however, did not identify himself as such. He had many gay friends, including Cukor, William Haines, and Australian artist and costume designer Orry-Kelly, but he is not alleged to have had relationships with them, well, with Haines, at least.

Wives of Cary Grant

Grant's third wife was actress and writer Betsy Drake. This was his longest marriage (1949 - 1962). In a 2004 interview for the Turner Classic Movies production, Cary Grant: A Class Apart, Drake mocked rumors of Grant's homosexuality. 'I didn't have time to think about his homosexuality,' she says, 'we were too busy fucking.'

His fourth marriage, to actress Dyan Cannon, on July 22, 1965, in Las Vegas, resulted in the birth of his only child, Jennifer, when he was 62. The marriage was troubled from the beginning (Grant was 61 and Cannon was 28), and they separated within 18 months, with Cannon claiming that Grant spanked her for disobeying him. The divorce, finalised on May 28, 1967, was bitter and messy, and the custody disputes over their daughter went on for years.

Grant married British hotel PR agent Barbara Harris (47 years his junior), on April 11, 1981, a marriage which lasted until his death.


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GAY aviator Howard Hughes & lover Cary Grant

HOWARD HUGHES FLEW BOTH WAYS

A scandalous bio of Howard Hughes looks set to bring The Aviator down to earth.

Capitalizing on the success of Martin Scorcese's movie, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Hughes, and is nominated for BEST PICTURE at tonight's Academy Awards, author Darwin Porter presents new allegations about the billionaire's shady dealings with some of the biggest names of the 20th century.

Porter adds some baroque touches to the rumors of Hughes's bisexuality, claiming that he bedded leading men James Dean, Randolph Scott, and Cary Grant. And he allegedly paid a million dollars in hush money after being arrested with a male prostitute in the 1950s.

Porter also says Hughes directed a then-unknown Marilyn Monroe in a lost "blue movie" in 1949. (And apparently, he gave Lana Turner syphilis for good measure.)

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Hughes led a life of almost unprecedented debauchery, at least for his era. This biography documents that corruption and the A-list legends who collaborated. Hughes’s sexual and emotional odyssey is described frankly and even graphically, without apologies to the faint of heart. Throughout the unimaginable changes that affected America between Hughes’s birth in 1905 and the sinister circumstances of his death in 1976, this biography gives an insider’s perspective about what money can buy--and what it can’t.

Hughes emerges as the century’s greatest Lothario, with origins that included a devouring and incestuous mother, an indulgent but absent father, and seductions of the greatest all-star cast of lovers--male and female--ever assembled in a single lifetime.

Hughes feverishly seduced some of the world’s greatest women, but in this epic biography, he is also dragged kicking and screaming out of the closet. As his pimp, Johnny Meyer, once said: “Bossman was an equal opportunity seducer. The gender of his victim didn’t matter. He had just one requirement: Beauty.”

Thanks in part to these revelations, the canon of Hollywood legend will never be the same. The author’s rundown on the relationship of Hughes with Cary Grant, Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Bette Davis, and Katharine Hepburn challenges virtually erything that has ever been filmed or written about those famous figures.

Howard Hughes: Hell's Angel
by Darwin Porter

ISBN 0-9748118-1-5
814 pages plus and index and 175 vintage photos. $26.95
Copyright 2005
Blood Moon Productions

NY GAY Priest is "out"...defrocked

NY GAY PRIEST IS 'OUT'
SHACKED-UP GAY REV. IS GETTING DEFROCKED

New York Post

February 4, 2008 -- A popular Catholic chaplain at SUNY Maritime College in The Bronx has been fired and barred from acting as a priest after The Post told church officials that he has lived with another man in a pricey Manhattan one- bedroom apartment for years.

The Rev. Michael Moynihan's suspension as a cleric late last week comes a year after he resigned as the beloved pastor of a ritzy Connecticut parish amid a financial scandal there.

And it came after his Bridgeport [Conn.] Diocese bosses - who earlier caught Moynihan lying about the existence of secret bank accounts at his former parish - learned that the dapper, white-haired cleric misled them about living with a man in Midtown.

That roommate - a handsome television actor and singer named Michael Fawcett - for years was the children's choir director at Moynihan's ex-parish, St. Michael the Archangel in Greenwich, Conn.


That roommate - a handsome television actor and singer named Michael Fawcett

Moynihan, 55, now is not allowed to wear clerical garb, perform Roman Catholic church sacraments other than saying Mass for himself, or otherwise publicly act as a priest.

He resigned as St. Michael's pastor in January 2007, much to the dismay of many parishioners, after a probe found he had spent more than $500,000 in church funds from two secret bank accounts he had set up without being able to properly document the expenditures.

Despite losing his Connecticut job, Moynihan for the past year remained a priest in good standing and continued working as the longtime chaplain at SUNY Maritime College, a staterun school in the Throgs Neck section of The Bronx.

But that ended last week, when The Post told a spokesman for the Bridgeport Diocese that the priest's landlord had confirmed that Moynihan lived with Fawcett, 53, in a rented co-op unit at 300 E. 40th St. "Moynihan has lived with Fawcett for about a decade in the one-bedroom apartment, which rents for an estimated $3,000 to $4,000 per month, according to commercial database records.

On Friday, the Bridgeport Diocese issued a statement saying that prior to the financial scandal at St. Michael the Archangel, allegations had been made that Moynihan had "an improper relationship with" Fawcett, which "were vigorously denied by Father Moynihan and could not be substantiated.

"Nonetheless, Father Moynihan was asked to end all affiliation with [Fawcett] to avoid even the appearance of impropriety, so as not to undermine the church's mission," the diocese said.

Moynihan did not return requests for comment. "I don't have any comment," said Fawcett, who has appeared on an episode of "Law and Order."

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Benedict XVI lives with his GAY "private" secretary -- they should defrock themselves first like what they did with Fr. Moynihan instead of imposing a double standard in the Catholic Church.

USA Bishops against same-sex marriage

Benedict XVI the worst anti-GAY leader

Inland GAY Catholics struggle with church teachings

Inland gay Catholics struggle to reconcile church teachings, their sexuality

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By David Olson
The Press-Enterprise

After Mike Neto came out as gay more than 25 years ago, he couldn't find a way to reconcile his sexual orientation with his Catholicism.

So the Palm Springs man searched for an alternative. He tried Christian Science, the gay-oriented Metropolitan Community Church and nondenominational Protestant churches that had liberal teachings on homosexuality. But he never felt comfortable.

His spiritual journey ended where it began. Neto, 59, again calls himself a Catholic.
"I was baptized Catholic, and I feel I'll always be Catholic," he said. "I still feel the Holy Spirit."

Neto's internal conflict is not unique. It is one familiar to many Inland gays and lesbians who were raised as Catholics and later found themselves pulled in two directions by their sexuality and their religion, which teaches that homosexual activity is a sin.

Neto's solution was to reject church teaching on homosexuality and to join Dignity, a nationwide group for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Catholics that sponsors Masses outside the Vatican's authority. The group has a growing chapter in Palm Springs.

Many gays remain within the Catholic Church itself, some attending a monthly Mass that the San Bernardino Diocese sponsors for gay Catholics and their families and friends. Others leave the church for liberal Protestant denominations. One man worships in a chapel he built in a shed behind his San Bernardino home.

Although they reach different destinations, many start on the same path: experiencing years of guilt and self-hatred that tear them apart and a feeling of being shunned by the church they love.



Bill LaMarche, a co-founder of Dignity Palm Springs, says the Vatican treats gay people as second-class citizens.


Read full article and see photos here.

Link: Benedict XVI The Worst Opponent of Same-Sex Marriage

The Worst Opponent of Same-Sex Marriage

The Pope GRINCH

Pope Benedict is the worst anti-GAY religious leader.

It is imperative that we fight for and achieve GAY-marriage rights in the USA for our sake and that of our partners - so we can enjoy all the financial and tax benefits that heterosexual couples have...besides I'd prefer to give my pension benefits later on to my faithful partner (or he to me) than to Uncle Sam...

The Pope is desperately in dire need of plastic surgery at the age of 80...actually he'll be spending his 81st birthday in New York City.

So he has hired the openly GAY movie director (Jesus of Nazareth) Franco Zeffirelli as his papal image consultant.

Pope Benedict calls GAYS "morally intrinsic evil" people ...that technically makes his new papal image now a GAY Image...a "morally-intrinsic-evil-papal-IMAGE"!


Papa Ratzinger....in tutta la sua cattività !!



ROMA GAY PARADE 2007



Pope Benedict meets gay/lesbian demonstration WJT 05 Cologne



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEE55T0gLvA

USA Bishops against same-sex marriage

THE MOST POWERFUL opponent fighting against same-sex marriage is the Catholic Church. In 2003 the USA Catholic Bishops Conference voted against same-sex marriage while at the same time they were covering-up the costly priest-pedophilia crime -- starting in Boston with Cardinal Law $89 Million, culminating with Cardinal Mahony paying the most $660 Million, tallying at $3 Billion up to today, and still counting.

After this long reading, enjoy the yummy YouTube treat at the end which demonstrates the criminal Cardinal Mahony's pedophile priests activities.

Boston Cardinal O'Mailley strategy

The Catholic Church has cultivated a campaign of harassment against Catholic legislators who support marriage rights for same-sex couples.

For months, the state’s four bishops — led by Boston archbishop Seán O’Malley — have mounted an unprecedented campaign to sway the votes of Catholic politicians on Beacon Hill. It began in earnest in June 2003, with the release of the bishops’ first statement denouncing same-sex marriage. On November 18, 2003, when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) determined that the ban on civil marriage for same-sex couples was unconstitutional, Archbishop O’Malley urged state legislators to thwart the SJC ruling. Within a week, he and his fellow bishops issued a joint statement opposing the historic ruling, which was either read from the pulpit or distributed at mass across the state — or both. On January 16, the bishops mailed a four-page, glossy brochure to one million Bay State Catholics urging them to work for passage of a constitutional amendment that would bar lesbian and gay couples from marrying. O’Malley has even aligned himself with radical evangelical Christians in the battle against gay marriage. On February 8, the Sunday before the first day of the constitutional convention (ConCon), the archbishop addressed an anti-gay-marriage rally on the Boston Common organized by Your Catholic Voice and featuring representatives from national right-wing groups like Concerned Women for America and the Family Research Council. He asked the 3000-strong audience to "stand together" to "affirm marriage and family" and then read from a February 6 statement opposing gay marriage that had been signed by 3000 religious leaders statewide.

New York July 11, 2007

Bishops urge rejection of ‘radical’ same sex marriage proposal

New York’s bishops are urging Catholics throughout the state to contact their state legislators after the State Assembly, acting on a bill proposed by Gov. Eliot Spitzer, voted 85-61 in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage.

Washington DC

WASHINGTON, April 23, 2004 — About 50 prominent religious leaders, including seven Roman Catholic cardinals and about a half-dozen archbishops, have signed a petition in support of a constitutional amendment blocking same-sex marriage.

Organizers of the petition said it was in part an effort to revive the groundswell of opposition to same-sex marriage that helped bring many conservative voters to the polls in some pivotal states in 2004. The signers include many influential evangelical Protestants, a few rabbis and an official of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

But both the organizers and gay rights groups said what was striking about the petition was the direct involvement by high-ranking Roman Catholic officials, including 16 bishops. Although the church has long opposed same-sex unions, and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops had previously endorsed the idea of a constitutional amendment banning such unions, it was evangelical Protestants who generally led the charge when the amendment was debated in 2004.


ROME is where the HATE IS

The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith launched a renewed global attack against same-sex marriage today with the release of a document titled Considerations regarding proposals to give legal recognition to unions between homosexual persons. The Catholic Church's hateful document comes from the oldest of the Curia's nine congregations. Founded in 1542 by Pope Paul III, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was originally called the Sacred Congregation of the Universal Inquisition: the same people responsible for torturing and burning victims to death in the name of God.

The Considerations is authored by the infamous Cardinal Ratzinger, a mean-spirited person known for an authoritarian streak that is appropriate for a grand Inquisitor. The document admits that it does "not contain new doctrinal elements" but that it is intended to "provide arguments drawn from reason which could be used by Bishops in preparing more specific interventions" and it is also "intended to give direction to Catholic politicians by indicating the approaches to proposed legislation in this area ..."

Indeed, in March, the Vatican released a new glossary of sexual terms which said homosexuals were not normal and countries which allowed gay marriages were inhabited by people with "profoundly disordered minds" (Reuters, July 31, 2003). Much of the twisted and contorted logic found in the Considerations can be found in previous shameful spewing of the Vatican, including:


Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons ( October 1986)

Pope Orders Politicians To Discriminate According To "Divine Plan"( Address of his Holiness Pope John Paul II November 4, 2000)

Family, Marriage and "De Facto" Unions, Pontifical Council For the Family (November 21, 2000)

The low points of the Considerations

"Homosexuality is a troubling moral and social phenomenon," the Considerations states in its introduction paragraph, noting in particular the "greater concern" of homosexual unions leading to the adoption of children. The rant continues: "homosexual acts go against the natural moral law ... Under no circumstances can they be approved."

The paper goes on to say that homosexuality is "an anomaly" that is "a serious depravity" and "intrinsically disordered" and "objectively disordered."

But in case you get the wrong idea from these hate-mongers, homosexuals "must be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity." But then a few paragraphs later this sentiment is unmasked: "The Principles of respect and non-discrimination cannot be invoked to support legal recognition of homosexual unions."

Such is the sincerity of the Inquisition.

"Therefore, discreet and prudent actions can be effective," the paper says. These include pressuring governments to make their secular laws conform to Church dogma, and "above all, to avoid exposing young people to erroneous ideas" that would "contribute to the spread of the phenomenon". Lest we forget, this unholy tirade says, "Those who would move from tolerance to the legitimization of specific rights for cohabiting homosexual persons need to be reminded that approval or legalization of evil is something far different from the toleration of evil."

Same-sex marriage, the Vatican says correctly, will "modify the younger generation's perception and evaluation of forms of behaviour." The Catholic Church wishes to create new generations of homophobes and bigots.

"Allowing children to be adopted by persons living in such unions would actually mean doing violence to these children, in the sense that their condition of dependency would be used to place them in an environment that is not conducive to their full human development."

It seems that the Inquisition would prefer that the faithful hand children over to the Catholic Church, whose leaders have shown willingness to cover-up and ignore the use of children as sexual toys for some of their priests.

Finally, the Considerations provides instructions to Catholic politicians:

"When legislation in favour of the recognition of homosexual unions is proposed for the first time in a legislative assembly, the Catholic lawmaker has a moral duty to express his opposition clearly and publicly and to vote against it. To vote in favour of a law so harmful to the common good is gravely immoral. When legislation in favour of the recognition of homosexual unions is already in force, the Catholic politician must oppose it in the ways that are possible for him and make his opposition known; it is his duty to witness to the truth."

The document, that will be cause for apology by a future Pope (just as the Church has apologized for similar aspersions cast on Jews), concludes:

"Legal recognition of homosexual unions or placing them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of deviant behaviour, with the consequence of making it a model in present-day society, but would also obscure basic values which belong to the common inheritance of humanity."

Politicians responses to these Considerations.

Learn about the TRUE - - Catholic Church in YouTube:



Link: Spiritually Incorrect

Top 50 GAYS in USA

This was the 2007 list, 2008 should come out soon.

David Geffen Seizes Top Spot Of Gay Power List
Congratulations are in order for Velvet Mafia don David Geffen, whom Out magazine has named the Most Powerful Gay in the Universe, a title he will likely hold until the day his lifeless body is buried beneath the Carbon Beach sand he so dearly loves. NY Magazine has reproduced Out's entire Power 50 list, which includes Hollywood Gays of Note (we're ignoring the ones from less interesting industries) from the diverse worlds of talk-show hosting (#3 Ellen DeGeneres and #6 Rosie O'Donnell), superproducing (#18 Scott Rudin), evil agenting (#31 Bryan Lourd of CAA), superhero-movie directing (#32 Bryan Singer), soap-opera writing (#40 Marc Cherry), and glass-closeted Oscar-collecting (#43 Jodie Foster). All lower-charting Power Gays should immediately submit their full-page tributes in the trades recognizing Geffen's achievement before inventory sells out; those shut out because they waited too long will undoubtedly be subject to the DreamWorks mogul's bloody reprisals for their failure to publicly pledge their fealty in a timely fashion.

4/ 3/07
‘Out’ Ranks the Top 50 Gays; Anderson Is No. 2

Photo: Out magazine

When New York did a "Gay Life Now" issue in 2001, only seven of the forty prominent New York gays asked to pose for the cover were willing. Those big shots may have been gay, and they may have been out, but it just wouldn't do for them to be gay and out on the cover of a magazine. "There was a time when the closet was a necessary safe haven," our pal Maer Roshan, who edited the issue, wrote in an angry 2,000-word essay. "But now, it exists as an anachronistic monument to shame. It's time for our public figures to stop hiding in there — and for journalists to stop helping them." Six years and a month later, maybe at least that second part has come true. Here's a first glimpse at the cover of Out magazine's "50 Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America" issue. (Click here for a larger image.) Those are models holding Jodie Foster and Anderson Cooper masks on the cover. Neither, of course, would appear themselves.

1. David Geffen
2. Anderson Cooper
3. Ellen DeGeneres
4. Tim Gill
5. Barney Frank
6. Rosie O’Donnell
7. The New York Times Gay Mafia: Richard Berke, Ben Brantley, Frank Bruni, Stuart Elliott, Adam Nagourney, Stefano Tonchi, and Eric Wilson
8. Marc Jacobs
9. Andrew Tobias
10. Brian Graden
11. Jann Wenner
12. Andrew Sullivan
13. Suze Orman
14. Joe Solmonese
15. Fred Hochberg
16. Christine Quinn
17. Perez Hilton
18. Scott Rudin
19. John Aravosis
20. Sheila Kuehl
21. James B. Stewart
22. Nick Denton
23. Tom Ford
24. Nate Berkus
25. Adam Moss
26. Jim Nelson
27. Lorri L. Jean
28. Adam Rose
29. Annie Leibovitz
30. Simon Halls and Stephen Huvane
31. Bryan Lourd
32. Bryan Singer
33. Jonathan Burnham
34. Brian Swardstrom
35. Robert Greenblatt
36. Chi Chi LaRue
37. Dan Mathews
38. Neil Meron and Craig Zadan
39. Ingrid Sischy
40. Marc Cherry
41. Carolyn Strauss
42. Irshad Manji
43. Jodie Foster
44. Christine Vachon
45. André Leon Talley
46. Hilary Rosen
47. Matthew Marks
48. Benny Medina
49. Mitchell Gold
50. David Kuhn

New York Mag

Gay Muslims party in Berlin, nervously

HAPPY NEW YEAR, MEN-FRIENDS!!!!!!

I was at TIMES SQUARE for the New Year's Eve countdown and met some nice GAY friends!
NEW YORK rocks!!!!!!



The crowd at Gayhane, a monthly party for Arab and Turkish gay men, lesbians and bisexuals at SO36, a Berlin nightclub. The event's name is fashioned from gay and "hane," Turkish for home. (Jan-Peter Boening for The New York Times)

By Nicholas Kulish
Tuesday, January 1, 2008

BERLIN: Six men whirled faster and faster in the center of the nightclub, arms slung over one another's shoulders, performing a traditional circle dance popular in Turkey and the Middle East.

Nothing unusual, given the German capital's large Muslim population.

But most of the people filling the dance floor Saturday at the club SO36 in the Kreuzberg neighborhood were gay, lesbian or bisexual, and of Turkish or Arab background. They were there for the monthly club night known as Gayhane, an all-too-rare opportunity to merge their immigrant cultures and their sexual identities.

European Muslims, so often portrayed one-dimensionally as rioters, honor killers or terrorists, live diverse lives, most of them trying to get by and to have a good time. That is more difficult if one is both Muslim and gay.

"When you're here, it's as if you're putting on a mask, leaving the everyday outside and just having fun," said a 22-year-old Turkish man who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear that he would be ostracized or worse if his family found out about his sexual orientation.

Safety and secrecy come up regularly in conversations with guests, who laugh and dance but also frequently look over their shoulders. To be a gay man or lesbian with an immigrant background invites trouble here in two very different ways.

"Depending on which part of Berlin I go to, in one I get punched in the mouth because I'm a foreigner, and in the other because I'm a queen," said Fatma Souad, the event's organizer and master of ceremonies. Souad, 43, a transgender performer born in Ankara as a boy named Ali, has put on the party for over a decade.

Souad came to Berlin in 1983 after leaving home as a teenager. She studied to be a dressmaker and played in a punk band but discovered Middle Eastern music through a friend and began teaching herself belly dancing. Souad started Salon Oriental, her first belly dancing theater, in 1988, and threw the first Gayhane party - hane means home in Turkish - in January 1997.

The club was packed by midnight and still had a line out the front door. On stage, Souad mixed a white turban and white net gloves with a black tuxedo with tails and a silver cummerbund, her face made up with perfectly drawn eyeliner and mascara. Dancing, she was all fluid motion, light on her feet, expressively twisting her hands and swiveling her hips.

Under flashing colored lights, guests, some with dreadlocks and others with carefully gelled coifs, moved to songs by the likes of the Egyptian Amr Diab and the Algerian Cheb Mami. Beats from traditional drums crossed with electronic ones, as melodies from flutes and ouds intertwined. When several circle dances - halay in Turkish - broke out at once, the floor began to shake from the stomping.

One of the regular DJs, Ipek Ipekcioglu, 35, said she got her start rather suddenly, when one of the founders of SO36 walked up to her and asked: "You're Turkish, right? You're lesbian, right? Bring your cassettes and DJ," she recalled. Ipekcioglu spins everything from Turkish and Arabic music, to Greek, Balkan and Indian, a style she calls Eklektik BerlinIstan. She has been a full-time professional DJ for six years and now performs all over the world.

The space is decorated with bright yellow wall hangings depicting elephants, camels and even a flying carpet, with an intentional degree of kitsch, Souad said, and an intentional distance from anything Islamic. "We take care that religion is not mixed in here, not in the music, either."

Outside, the boom of loud firecrackers can be heard, the first test rounds for the annual cacophony here that leaves New Year's revelers ears' ringing. Kreuzberg has been home for decades to large populations of Turks and Kurds, many of whom have very conservative religious values. Yet they have had to share the neighborhood that formerly abutted the Berlin Wall with many counterculture types, artists and anarchists and also gays and lesbians.

According to the city's Schwules Museum, partly devoted to the history of gay people in the city and the country, "a lively homosexual subculture had developed in Berlin by the second half of the 18th century or perhaps earlier." It was known as an oasis for gay men and lesbians in the Weimar period immortalized by the writer Christopher Isherwood and in the period when West Berlin was surrounded by the Wall. Today, the city has an openly gay and highly popular mayor, Klaus Wowereit.

But gay men and lesbians from Muslim families say they face extraordinary discrimination at home. A survey of roughly 1,000 young men and women in Berlin, released in September and widely cited in the German press, found much higher levels of homophobia among Turkish youth.

"These differences are there. We can't deny them. The question is how do we cope with them," said Bernd Simon, who led the study and is a professor of social psychology at Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel. "The answer is not to replace homophobia with Islamophobia," Simon said, pointing out that homophobia is also higher among Russian immigrants and in other, less urban parts of Germany.

"For us, for Muslims, it's extremely difficult. When you're gay, you're immediately cut off from the family," said Kader Balcik, a 22-year-old Turk from Hamburg. He had recently moved to Berlin not long after being cut off from his mother because he is bisexual. "A mother who wishes death for her son, what kind of mother is that?" he asked, his eyes momentarily filling with tears.

Hasan, a 21-year-old Arab man, sitting at a table in the club's quieter adjoining café, declined to give his last name, saying: "They would kill me. My brothers would kill me." Asked whether he meant this figuratively, he responded, "No, I mean they would kill me."

"I'm living one life here and the other one the way they wish me to be," Hasan said, referring to his parents. He said that he still planned to marry, but when he turned 30 rather than right away, as his parents wished. "I have to have children, to do what Islam wants me to do," he said. "I would stop with everything in the homosexual life. I would stop it."

He stood up from the table and called to his two friends. "All right, boys, let's go dance. We're here to have fun," and they marched off to the dance floor, smiling.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/01/europe/berlin.php

Pope's GAY Image Zeffirelli

Pope Benedict calls GAYS "morally intrinsic evil" people but now he has hired the openly GAY movie director (Jesus of Nazareth) Franco Zeffirelli as his papal image consultant...that technically would give the Pope a GAY Image...a "morally-intrinsic-evil-IMAGE"!

Link: Pope Benedict the worst anti-GAY religious leader.

The ROSE sang by Westlife

MERRY CHRISTMAS , Happy Hannukah and Happy Holiday Seasons, Men-Friends! Here is one of my favorite songs sang by my favorite band, Westlife, with their handsome GAY singer Mark Feehily. I saw them sing in England...they were HOT!

Westlife singer Mark Feehily has revealed he is gay. The boy band star told The Sun newspaper: "I am gay and I'm very proud of who I am. I'm not asking for any sympathy, or to be a role model to anyone else," he said, adding it was "the right time" to let people know the truth. Feehily, 25, added: "I'm not worried about how people react because I'm happy being who I am." His family and bandmates were already aware of his sexuality.


Mark Feehily (second left) said his bandmates were aware he was gay




The ROSE
When New York will approve same-sex marriage, I dream to get married under this song...



"When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep.

And when his wings enfold you, yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden."

THE PROPHET Kahlil Gibran.......was GAY!

Posted on Our Lady's feast, to honor my late mother's devotion to her and my two sisters' relentless prayers to her...even if they disapprove of my being GAY...someday, they will know that G*d made me wonderfully this way!

GAY Maui, my paradise

It is now winter in New York and one of my favorite places that I go to for a HOT paradise is Maui in Hawaii. (This is a must-go-to and must-see place at least ONCE in your lifetime.)

For GAYS who need a HOT vacation from winter, GAY Maui is definitely a paradise pit stop!

GAY Maui
http://hawaiig.com/Maui/gay_hawaii_maui_overview.htm

Gay Maui. A magical island that has been named 'Best Island in the World' time and time again. Crystal waters, golden beaches, beautiful scenery, tropical breezes, swaying palms, award-winning cuisine and world class resorts just to name a few.

Maui's diversity will amaze and delight you. With the states second largest gay and lesbian population Maui's laid back gay life is revered by our brothers and sisters the world over.

Just think a warm and accepting atmosphere, beautiful people, and a tropical gay paradise like none others.

You'll marvel at cascading waterfalls, the remote village called heavenly Hana, the picturesque Lahaina, a National Historic District, where history and fun combine to create a 'must see'.

You'll discover the Marine Preserve of Molokini, teeming with exotic sea life, and the majesty of Haleakala crater. Upcountry is another world – with alpine meadows, working cattle ranches, and the charming town of Makawao.

Surrounding everywhere, forty-two miles of glistening beaches meet the blue Pacific, where each winter thousands of Humpback whales give birth. Our friends and family come to play is called "Little Beach" at Makkena.

LITTLE BEACH AT MAKENA: Gay Maui's only gay beach famous for nude sunbathing. We strongly suggest you use sunscreen. To get to this Gay Hawaii play
land go about one mile south of the Maui Prince Hotel in Makena, turn right at the second paved road to the parking lot. Walk to the beach, turn right, and hike over the promontory at the end to "Little Beach." The far end is the gayest. Be advised that nude sunbathing is not legal in Gay Hawaii, but you wouldn't know it at this beach.


Kaanapali Beach: This is where beautiful people meet the beauty of nature! Very popular with visitors you will have fun looking at all the hot properties (guys 21y to 32y) and basking in the

luxury of a first class resort. Close at hand are places to eat, buy more sunscreen, do some world class shopping at stores like Gucci, and Chanel, and be entertained with the finest local entertainment. All centrally located in the Kaanapali area. If your not the rugged wash and wear type this is your beach! The swimming is excellent and the view is fantastic.


Wailea Beach: This is the closest that Hawaii comes to paradise found. Fronting the five star resort area of Wailea in some of the worlds most spectacular beaches. You'll love to be papered here

and if your staying in one of the resorts you can expect world class service from the staff who will even bring you a phone if you beckon for one. They are standing close by (not too close to be intrusive) to fulfill your every service request. Cold towel - done. Change of clothes - done. The latest novel - done. Of course this type of service does not come with out a price but if your going to spoil yourself you might as well do it right. The sand and water here are perfect for paradise with nothing but beach for as far as the eye can see.


GAY Hawaii
http://hawaiig.com/Oahu/gay_oahu_overview.htm

Since size often makes or breaks your average introduction, we'd first like to point out that Hawai'i is the world's most geographically isolated landmass. "Gay Hawaii" as it is often called is located 2,400 miles or a five hour plane ride from the West Coast of the U.S. nine from Atlanta, non-stop, and is well situated for a stopover en route to Australia or the Pacific Rim. Gay Hawaii is often called the "Crossroads of the Pacific."

With so much criss-crossing you can be assured that Gay and lesbian visitors the world over call paradise home when visiting Hawaii every year. Did we mention all the hot guys from all over the world from Australia to Russia? Ah, and all the hot local men that will have you packing your bags and begging to stay.

While Honolulu's gay scene has changed dramatically over the years, its long-standing epicenter is located just a few blocks from its original location around world famous Angle's Waikiki Bar. Until the mid 90's Hula's was the place to be in Hawaii but since it has moved to the far end of Waikiki and relocated in a transient hotel it has become the home of heavy weight bears (400lbs type). For gay travelers, an evening at Angle's is the obvious first step before moving on to other places. Step two would be to join the ONLY All Gay Hawaii catamaran cruises with Angles on Sundays!

Today's, Hawai'i is a modern, cosmopolitan, diverse, multi-cultural society. It is home to 1.2 million residents, of which over 200,000 gay and lesbian call paradise home. Nearly 7 million visitors including several hundreds thousand gay and lesbian vacationers alike visit the "Island's of Aloha every year." With visitors and local residence combined the gay population on the islands averages nearly 9,000,000 at any given time.

Hawaii's marriage of ancient traditions and cosmopolitan living that makes Hawaii one of the only places in the world to celebrate a tradition of acceptance of gay and lesbians, and a visitor's paradise!

JFK's GAY bestfriend had a room in the White House

Jack and Lem
by David Pitts


This book definitely encourage our GAY culture. But it might disappoint a lot of women who admire JFK and who post his handsome image on their walls. Pity more so Marilyn Monroe and Jackie O who might have been "used" to cover-up JFK's possible GAY relationship with Lem. Or, JFK could have been bi-sexual! No offense meant to the Emerald Kings! Why not, countless politicians were and are bi-sexual today! They have beautiful wives and handsome children but secretly they are GAYS! (I heard that there is a mansion in New Jersey where politicians frequent for fresh young GAY men supply!)

I am looking for top 10 GAY Jesuits ('ex' are welcome, 2 are already posted here) and top 10 wealthy openly GAY men like David Geffen to knock down Humpty Dumpty Benedict XVI and all his Swiss Army will never put him together again...to prove him wrong that "GAYS are morally intrinsic evil". It is time that GAYS unite globally to fight those religious leaders and shut them up once and for all.

The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Friendship

Book Review: gaylife.about.com

David Pitts chronicles two brilliant yet inseparable lives in his book, Jack and Lem: The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Friendship . One life is of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president we all know and the other story is of his confidant, Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" Billings. Lem Billings, although rarely written about in detail, was Jack Kennedy's best friend from their early days at the Choate Preparatory School for Boys, an exclusive boarding school in Wallingford, Connecticut, until JFK's untimely death in Dallas.

Pitts' biography isn't another angle on the ex-president's war efforts, foreign policy or yet another conspiracy surrounding his death; but a chronicle of Jack Kennedy's campy and carefree childhood, his poor life threatening health, his promiscuity and, most of all, his relationship with best friend Lem Billings.

Pitts stumbled across Lem Billings while doing research on his favorite subject, Jack Kennedy. He often ran across the same mysterious name, Lem Billings. Few accounts of JFK's social and political life elaborated on who Billings was, but one could not be mentioned without the other. Billings wrote of Kennedy and Billing's friendship, "It is largely unknown to the public and yet crucial to understanding who Jack Kennedy was."

And important it is! Billings, who lived until 1981, kept over 140 letters from his best friend. He even had his own room in teh White House. Jack and Lem is a brilliant account of personal side of the most political of Kennedy's. Jack and Lem shared a common wit, carefree nature and curiosity of life, making them inseparable as friends. They often made fun of each other and had numerous nicknames. During one of Jack's many bouts of sickness, he wrote Billings at Princeton, "I don't know why you and Rip [Horton] are so unpopular with the girls. You're not ugly looking exactly. I guess there's just something about you that makes girls dislike you on sight."

Kennedy and Billings' rants toward each other were commonplace. Jack later wrote to Lem, "Do you remember a fat blond boy named Jim Filer at Choate? He has quite a hero notion of me from Choate and from what I can gather most of the younger boys at school thought of me as sort of a god-like Casanova, if you know what I mean, and thought you were a big sh**, as near I can tell." Jack continued his play, "The next time I see him I'll go into more detail about why nobody at Choate liked you, although to tell the truth, he was rather vague about you—just thinks you're a sh**. Best Jack."

According to David Pitts, Lem Billings wasn't just Jack's best friend, he became another Kennedy child. He was close to the Kennedy children and spent most holidays with the family. Through interviews, Pitts writes of their experiences with Billings and how Jack's siblings saw their relationship. Ted Kennedy remembered, "I was three years old before it dawned on me that Lem wasn't one more older brother." Pitts writes, "So often did Lem come home with Jack that he kept more clothes in the closet than Jack did, Teddy added."

It would be of simple mind to shun this piece of history as an effort to tarnish JFK's reputation and Pitts seems to be all too aware of this danger. It's clear that Pitts shares the same adoration and devotion to Jack Kennedy as so many generations. His accounts of Kennedy and Billings is presented objectively without speculation.

Pitts also draws a very clear line, expressed through his word choice, that Jack and Lem isn't 300 pages of gossip and speculation, but a historical accounts of a friendship that turned into a life connection without crossing sexual boundaries. Think Oprah and Gayle. Not lovers, just life friends.

In fact, Pitts makes it a point to highlight Jack Kennedy's heterosexuality and promiscuity while simultaneously accounting for Lee Billings' failed attempts at heterosexual relationships. Homosexuality was a taboo topic during Jack and Lem's upbringing and Pitts is confident that Jack Kennedy knew of Billings' sexuality early on. Yet, to a insouciant Kennedy, Billings' slapstick friendship trumped his sexuality.

Parts of Jack and Lem are redundant, but gaining insight into the real essence of Jack Kennedy's life pre-assassination makes this account too enticing to set aside. Jack and Lem celebrates a Jack Kennedy never seen or read before. Jack Kennedy gave a country strength while devoted friend and confidant Lem Billings gave him strength and often showed him the lighter side of life, especially during his crucial early years. Bravo to David Pitts for finally telling their story.

Book review by: Ramone Johnson
http://gaylife.about.com/od/gaybooks/a/jfklembillings.htm

Benedict XVI's nephew in Munich is GAY!

Benedict XVI's Private Secretary is GAY ...and his nephew is GAY and has a GAY bar in Munich!

St. Paul was GAY!!!!!! He's one of us!

Men-Friends,Happy Thanksgiving and I've got GOOD NEWS for you! I just came from a recent (business) trip in Israel......the GAYS there are HOT! But the greatest discovery I made was "St. Paul was GAY !" from a book I read on the plane, Sins of Scripture, by Bishop John Shelby Spong (imagine a Catholic reading a Protestant book on his "pilgrimage" to the Holy Land! No, I wasn't reading Benedict XVI's books, too depressing and fallible) Bishop Spong has a very long section on "the Bible and Homosexuality" and he proves through his own words in Scripture that St. Paul was GAY. I copy some paragraphs here...at last and after all, the GREATEST GAY on our side is St. Paul! EVERYDAY the Catholic Church and the Protestants read his Epistles in their Mass. St. Paul, the most quoted writer in the Bible is GAY!

Christ said: "Seek and ye shall find". Here I am seeking for 10 GAY (ex)Jesuits and G_d gave me St. Paul instead in my quest. The top 10 GAY Jesuits will eventually appear, I've received emails but these Jesuits are not ready to come out yet and I respect that...all in due time. So, I'll start with St. Paul as the LEADER of GAYS in the Roman CATHOLIC Church! There are more chances that Benedict XVI will listen to me or US GAYS if we speak about St. Paul than the GAY-Jesuits for now.

Benedict XVI, who lives with his GAY Private Secretary, when they say Mass together and read the Epistles of St. Paul everyday should reflect on what Bishop Spong has to say.

To succeed in our cause to have same-sex marriage in New York and in the USA, we need to influence and change the mindset of religious leaders like Benedict XVI and the Protestant pastors - because the politicians who can vote and implement same-sex marriage, including George Bush, will always be influenced by the Pope and their pastors and their "fundamental" religious beliefs.

The Bible and Homosexuality

In Romans Paul described his inner struggle: "I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members" (7:23) Paul's experience was that he followed one law with his mind, another with his body. This sin that he feels "dwells in my members" caused him to proclaim that "nothing good dwells within me, that is my flesh." He went on to say, "I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do." He concludes this interior lament by saying, "Wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from this body of death?" It was a plaintive cry reflecting a longstanding memory. That plea ultimately fades into an acclamation when he asserts that he has been given victory over the affliction. "Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord, he says (Rom. 7:18-19, 24-25). Paul culminates this section by stating that he is now persuaded that nothing will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord (8:39), not even our "nakedness," He adds in a revealing choice of words in verse 35. It is a remarkable portrait of a remarkable man. Perhaps what is even more unusual is that the words of Paul are still quoted today to condemn the homosexuality that Paul surely knew was his own hidden secret.

Yes, I am convinced that Paul of Tarsus was a gay man, deeply repressed, self-loathing, rigid in denial, bound by the law that he hoped could keep this thing, that he judged to be so unacceptable, totally under control, a control so profound that even Paul did not have to face this fact about himself. But repression kills. It kills the repressed one and sometimes the defensive anger found in the repressed one also kills those who challenge, threaten or live out the thing that this repressed person so deeply fears.

Much of the persecution of gay and lesbian people both within the church and in the broader society has been carried out by self-rejecting deeply closeted homosexual people. Frequently homophobic but homosexual clergy and bishops, together with their most loyal lay followers, have wrapped their externalized rage, their rejecting and sometimes killing fury, inside the security of some authoritative system. They quote either a hierarchy that claims infallibility or a sacred source from scripture that people have said is inerrant. That is how fanaticism works. That is certainly what is revealed in the Pauline tirade recorded in Romans 1 - a frightened gay man condemning other gay people so that he can keep his own homosexuality inside the rigid discipline of his faith. (Pages 139-140 Bold emphasis mine)

JFK

Today is the anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The person who sat beside me in the plane to Israel told me that there is a book about one of JFK's best and lifelong friends who was always with him wherever he went...was GAY. The book tried to prove that JFK too was GAY...(Marilyn Monroe and Jackie O must be turning in their graves) next time will quote from the book and post it here!



Happy Thanksgiving, men-friends!

You've got a friend, Charles



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The Catholic Church's global influence, meanwhile, shouldn't be underestimated, Sinnett said. The United Nations grants the Vatican status as a Non-member State Permanent Observer, rather than treating it as a nongovernmental organization.

"That means it has greater influence on all countries," Sinnett said. "When they use that power to interfere in the politics of another sovereign country, that is incredible."

Pope Benedict XVI’s strong stance against homosexuality makes him a dangerous threat to gay causes across the world, gay activists and religious experts said.

Blessed bigotry: Pope Benedict XVI is Anti-Gay Person of the Year

God’s rottweiler’ actively pursues political agenda against gay marriage, priests

EDITORS’ NOTE:As 2005 draws to a close, many media outlets will announce their selections for person of the year. In past years, Blade editors have selected a Story of the Year instead.

This year, the Story of the Year was, in our view, the extraordinary efforts of one individual to not only put a halt to the acceptance of gay people legally and within the mainstream culture, but to roll back such acceptance to an earlier, less tolerant and more discriminatory time.

Presiding over what some describe as the "strongest bully pulpit in the world," Pope Benedict XVI, just eight months into his tenure, has unilaterally targeted gays as moral threats to society.
From banning gay priests to publicly lobbying against legal recognition for gay couples in Spain and Italy, Pope Benedict XVI has aggressively lobbied against gay rights across the globe.

"His rhetoric is obscene. He wants gays clearly taken care of — it's almost like the Final Solution," said Kara Speltz, a Catholic lesbian activist for Soulforce, an organization dedicated to ending anti-gay discrimination within all religions.

For 20 years, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger served under Pope John Paul II before being elected the 265th pope on April 19.

During that tenure, Ratzinger authored some of the Vatican's most anti-gay rhetoric, including a 1986 Vatican letter calling homosexuality "an intrinsic moral evil" and a 2003 battle plan instructing Catholic politicians to oppose gay marriage and gay adoptions.

Dubbed "God's rottweiler" and "the enforcer" long before taking the helm of the church that boasts a billion members worldwide, Benedict's fervent approach to gay and other social issues is an intentional one meant to influence public policy, according to Chester Gillis, chair of the theology department at Georgetown University.

"He knows very well the kind of claims he makes have political implications. He intends for them to have political implications," Gillis said. "He wants to influence public policy in numerous places in the world and hopefully sway the powers that be to his side, especially on so-called social issues."

Pope has 'ear of the world'Under John Paul II, Cardinal Ratzinger served as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the office once known as the Holy Inquisition. In that role, his writings were mostly circumscribed to Catholics and internal discourse within the church, Gillis said.

But now as pope, his words aren't just read by bishops but are heard throughout the world, giving Benedict enormous credibility when it comes to political influence, Gillis said.

"It's the strongest bully pulpit in the world," Gillis said. "What he says is noted by everyone.

Everyone may not agree or follow what he says, but clearly he has the ear of the world — and that's a very privileged position."

Benedict's most recent anti-gay action to gain worldwide attention was the Vatican's "Instruction concerning the criteria for the discernment of vocations with regard to persons with homosexual tendencies in view of their admission to the seminary and to Holy Orders," released Nov. 29. The document essentially bans gay priests.

The official "Instruction," from the Congregation for Catholic Education, stated, "One cannot ignore the negative consequences that can stem from the ordination of people with deeply-rooted homosexual tendencies."

The "Instruction" also said men "who practice homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so-called 'gay culture' cannot be admitted to seminaries." The only exception would be for those with a "transitory problem" that had been overcome for at least three years."

In the United States, gay rights groups including the Human Rights Campaign and the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force publicly challenged the ban and urged gay Catholics and their allies to speak out against it to local priests and bishops.

On Dec. 14, a group of gay Italian clergy posted an open letter to the Vatican on the website of the Italian news agency Adista, stating they felt like the Catholic Church's "unloved and unwanted children," the Associated Press reported.

Adista, which leaked the document on the gay priest ban last month, said 39 priests, 26 diocesans and 13 more members of various religious orders had signed the letter. But the text reproduced on the website did not include the signatures or list their names, the AP reported.
"We don't have more problems living chastely than heterosexuals do because homosexuality is not a synonym of incontinence, nor of uncontrollable urges," the letter states.

"We are not sick with sex and our homosexual tendency has not damaged our psychic health. … We are Catholic priests … with homosexual tendencies, and that fact has not stopped us from being good priests."

In November 2002, in the midst of the church sex abuse crisis, the Vatican press office announced that the Congregation for Catholic Education was drafting guidelines for accepting candidates for the priesthood that would address the question of whether gays should be barred. However, the document reportedly had been in the works well before then.

Gay Catholics and others have criticized the Vatican for blaming gay priests for the child sex abuse scandal, which they argued had nothing to do with homosexuality.

"This is a scapegoat scheme masquerading as Vatican decree," HRC President Joe Solmonese said in a statement. "What is being released today is a decree serving as a diversion that neither keeps children safe nor holds criminals responsible."

Soulforce's Speltz said Benedict is simply seeking to dissuade independent thought among Catholics and church leadership.

"He's trying to create 'Stepford Priests,'" she said. "And if any heterosexual Catholic thinks this is a good thing, they're living in an illusion."

Fighting gay marriageThe Vatican's losing fight against legalizing gay marriage in Spain came just weeks after Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI. The Spanish Parliament legalized same-sex marriage June 30. Same-sex marriage also is legal in Canada, the Netherlands and Belgium.

After the vote, the Catholic Church denounced the move as "unjust" and a threat to families.

Sam Sinnett, president of the gay Catholic organization Dignity USA, said it was not the people supporting Spain's public policy who had it wrong when the measure was approved, but rather the church's hierarchy, which is out of step with the times.

"Their consciences are misinformed," Sinnett said in May. "They need to learn about social and medical sciences [about homosexuality] and incorporate them into theology."

The Catholic Church's global influence, meanwhile, shouldn't be underestimated, Sinnett said. The United Nations grants the Vatican status as a Non-member State Permanent Observer, rather than treating it as a nongovernmental organization.

"That means it has greater influence on all countries," Sinnett said. "When they use that power to interfere in the politics of another sovereign country, that is incredible."

Mel White, founder of Soulforce, said this summer that Benedict and the Vatican's response to Spain's politics is indicative of the "Dark Ages mentality" of the Roman Catholic Church's leadership.

"They have gone from cardinals sitting in Vatican City having bad ideas to spreading these bad ideas to the world. The Vatican is now superimposing its theology on everybody," White said. "It has too much power to be considered anything but an enemy."

The Vatican has also been long criticized for opposing condom use in all circumstances. The policy has been blamed by many AIDS experts for contributing to the spread of the virus in many developing countries with large Roman Catholic populations.