Comments on: Chicago Cardinal George backs away from gay ‘Ku Klux Klan’ comment

By: Cardinals are covering pedophiles and saying this?!

Cardinals are covering pedophiles and saying this?! — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:46:16 +0000

Pleeeaz! After all the priests that have committed the most heinous acts against small children how this man has the nerve to point fingers at the L.G.B.T. community is beyond comprehension. When his house is free of mega-sin, then and only then should he be contemplating what anyones motives are. Pardon me for being so unbelievably indignant!

By: Tony Halstead

Tony Halstead — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:48:29 +0000

This is an example of how ignorant catholics can be; even as they preach love and understanding, they act with hatred and bigotry and promote hypocrisy.

By: I Mean What

I Mean What — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:44:20 +0000

Let me just call the kettle black here. Cardinal George had to settle a sexual harassment case between an unamed boy and a priest named Daniel McCormack who pleaded guilty in 2007 to abusing five boys (ages 10-12) and was sentenced to five years in prison. http://bit.ly/uni9Gr

By: Antoni Zukowski

Antoni Zukowski — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:08:29 +0000

His Excellency said the right thing. In fact you couldn’t frame the problem in a better context. Cardinal just earned my heartfelt thank you!

By: Ned Flaherty

Ned Flaherty — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:09:36 +0000

Historically, the rhetorical phrases most used by LGBT people are terms such as: “compassion, love, fairness, citizenship, equality, rights,” and “justice.”

But the cardinal, his Pope, their employees, and official church policy all preach that LGBT people are “intrinsically disordered” and “immoral” and “evil.”

In calling an entire class of people irrecoverably flawed and lacking in morality and Satanically possessed, it is the cardinal who is spewing rhetoric, not LGBT people.

This archbishop/cardinal wants to deny all citizens their human rights based on some supernatural assumptions belonging to a religious sect. He is a dangerous demagogue spewing religious rhetoric, trying to turn everyone else’s democracy into his own theocracy.

By: David C. Gross

David C. Gross — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 02:07:02 +0000

As a Catholic Lay Minister I want to be one of the first to apologize for what Cardinal George said. What he said was morallly repugnant, ignorant, and prejudiced. He has hurt his own witness and that of others like myself who work at the lower end of the totem pole. The priority for my ministry is love and acceptance of those who are different from me. I believe in diversity and openness. I feel like my feet have been cut out from under me. Please do not judge all catholics for the ignorant and prejudiced remarks of an old FOOL.