Gomulka: DOES THE SEXUAL ORIENTATION OF THE POPE AND BISHOPS MATTER?..."Has Pope Leo...ever denounced jurisdictions that are trying to ban counseling for gender-identity issues, right alongside bans on sexual-orientation conversion therapy?"
DOES THE SEXUAL ORIENTATION OF THE POPE AND BISHOPS MATTER? DOES THE SEXUAL ORIENTATION OF THE POPE AND BISHOPS MATTER? Gene Thomas Gomulka Jul 05, 2025.... ... Closeted homosexual bishops who were groomed or abused, which affected their sexual orientation during their period of psychosexual development, are less inclined to discipline homosexual clerics reported for abuse because they themselves often engaged in the same behavior, particularly when they were younger. Because I rejected homosexual advances in the seminary and priesthood on the part of bishops, priests, and seminarians, and because I was not “turned” like so many other seminarians and priests, I pity these closeted homosexual bishops and priests whom I know act the way they do because of their own grooming/abuse experiences. While some closeted homosexual clerics who prey on young men and boys may be reported, often only decades after the abuse occurred, others may escape being caught only to be promoted often with the ...