Cardinal says gay people should be kept away from family gatherings with children

Cardinal says gay people should be kept away from family gatherings with children

Cardinal Raymond Burke has spoken out against gay people, calling them “evil” and urging families to keep gay relatives away from gatherings with children.

In an interview with right-wing website Life Site News, Burke was asked by an Australian couple how they should respond to their son bringing his male partner to Christmas dinner.

Burke replied that such a situation should be handled carefully given “the aggressiveness of the homosexual agenda”.

He said that gay family members in what he called “a disordered relationship” should be excluded from gatherings with “impressionable children”.

“We wouldn’t, if it were another kind of relationship—something that was profoundly disordered and harmful—we wouldn’t expose our children to that relationship, to the direct experience of it,” he said.

“And neither should we do it in the context of a family member who not only suffers from same-sex attraction, but who has chosen to live out that attraction, to act upon it, committing acts which are always and everywhere wrong, evil.”

Burke said he urged family members “not to scandalise their children or grandchildren” through contact with gay relatives.

He added that gay people within the church should be encouraged to leave their relationships “to begin to lead a chaste life”.

“Those people… living in that way certainly cannot have any leadership role in the parish, because it would give the impression to parishioners that the way they are living is perfectly all right,” he said.

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22 responses to “Cardinal says gay people should be kept away from family gatherings with children”

  1. Maybe yall (priests, bishops, whatever yall call yourselves) should be kept away from them!!!! More stories on how you guys are doing more wrong than good with children!!!

  2. What a surprise.
    Not.
    At least not for us Americans, who have had more than enough of this political gameplay.

    I hope that folks in Australia and elsewhere are able to learn from the sad state of affairs we have here!
    I also hope that all who read remember that this is only one family of some 26, 27? Catholic denominations and the views expressed are NOT CATHOLIC. They are simply the denominational views of one particular UN Member Nation that uses it’s National Church and affiliated smaller denominations to pursue entirely VULGAR CRASS WORLDLY means! Episcopal, Anglican, Independent, Celtic, Reformed, WomanPriest Roman, and hundreds of other Catholics Churches would be the first to provide anyone who wishes with TRUE faith-filled Catholic information without the politics and greed.

    The Cardinal imported by the Vatican to interfere in our last election at the National Prayer Breakfast was so ignorant of biology he didn’t know some babies are born hermaphrodites.

    This Cardinal has been sent by the Vatican to terrorize LGBTQA Americans and their families, even though they are protected by law, medical science, and common sense.

    I suppose that Cardinal Burke and his friends will continue to remain silent ,however, about the growing number of very un-Catholic sounding holding companies that Vatican City, Inc. is using to slowly buy up hospitals across the country so that the Vatican can further enrich the Vatican Bank on our taxpayer money from Medicare and Medicaid while they cry “religious freedom” to avoid paying taxes themselves or complying with even the most mundane US Laws!

    Don’t blame your local Vaticanite Catholics. They are voiceless and voteless serfs in this medieval country, with no rights at all save leaving (which millions have done) or stopping their donations (which millions have done). They are truly innocent victims, being slaves without even the slightest representation.

    But, learn from what the USA is batting:
    Russia isn’t the only foreign nation playing games with Americans!!

    Francis had better decide soon…is he going to be a Catholic BISHOP or a UN member Nation CEASAR? Jesus was pretty clear that he cannot serve two masters no matter how well he seems to switch the hats on his head!

  3. Based on Cardinal Burke’s comments about not exposing impressionable children to gay relatives, then impressionable children should not be exposed to the Catholic church where pedophiles and child molesters are protected instead of punished, and the victims are made to feel responsible for their victimization by ADULTS who know better; ADULTS who are supposed to be teaching right from wrong; ADULTS who are supposed to be protecting those children from the very crimes they themselves are committing.

  4. Evil are the priests that abuse children and the church that lets them get away with it

  5. He who is without sin? What a wretched piece of humanity Cardinal Burke is. What an evil. judgemental, hypocrite – vile homophobic generalisations from a representative of a depraved institution. It is time to challenge these bigots.

  6. I think of gay people should be around children for dinner if you understand that cardnal

  7. Why, oh why do gay people still belong to this vile cult and give their hard earned cash to support it?

  8. Its Horrible and Evil that a man of cloth say such vile and evil things about humanity. How about clean up the acts and evil deeds that being done towards children, those same children grew up depress and confused about the vile things done to them, behind the churches closed door. They either commit suicide, hurt and their lives turned upside down. Clean up yours acts, stop preaching hate and unjust words.

  9. An old demented man clinging to his old demented doctrine. I’m curious what DVD’s and old magazines he has stashed under his mattress.

  10. Actually, Catholic priests are the ones who should be kept away from any gathering involving children. A bit late to try and divert attention away from that fact by lashing out against adults in loving, consenting relationships when everybody already knows that Catholic priests are famous for raping children, blaming their victims and covering up the truth. I would be more worried about my child being traumatized by a priest than getting to know the truth that gay people are normal.

  11. We need to have a plebiscite on “Should religious organisations pay tax and be subject to all the secular laws over their sky fairy’s?”

  12. It is absolutely incredible that this clown has the unmitigated gall in the light of Catholic Church Heirachy Australia wide being being viewed as considering pedophilia as the norm, that this clown even makes any public comment on sexuality.
    In the eyes of the Catholic Church, a relationship between consenting adults is evil but it’s it’s OK to fuck the ten year old choir boys.

    Ian Jakobi

  13. Just another ageing dinosaur out of touch with modern society and cocooned inside the confines of in institution that has outlived it’s purpose. I am not a religious person but I don’t begrudge those who are and I feel that in order for religion to evolve and be relevant for modern people these old men need to be retired taken out of public affairs and replaced with younger clergy who are more in step with what is going on on the world. Allowing these old men to remain and inflict their outmoded doctrines on modern youth and families is actually dangerous.

  14. Maybe they should keep Catholic priests out of family gatherings. Reminds me of the saying about ‘glass houses’.

  15. Based on the available evidence, I would be more worried about leaving catholic priests alone with children!

    I have a gay niece and I’m quite happy about her babysitting my children. But, I would never leave my children with the local catholic priest – that’s just asking for trouble.

  16. These fucking hypocrites. Hey Cardinal Burke, how about making sure CATHOLIC PRIESTS AND TEACHERS STOP FUCKING KIDS before worrying about whether a gay couple being at dinner could ‘scandalize’ children. How about making sure the CHURCH STOPS THREATENING VICTIMS OF PAEDOPHILE PRIESTS before ever thinking about the welfare of other peoples’ kids? Oh, that’s too much to ask of you it turns out.

    What an evil, evil man. I am speechless.