Felonious Vatican Fellows Linked to Gay Prostitution Ring
The Washington Post is reporting that one of Pope Benedict’s ushers and one of the Vatican’s choir members have been linked to a gay prostitution ring. Actually, the usher, Angelo Balducci, had already been arrested last month for corruption that had nothing to do with a prostitution ring. And it was through that unrelated investigation that Balducci, along with the other man, Ghinedu Ehiem, was implicated in charges of prostitution. According to the Post: “Excerpts of the wiretaps and police documents published in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica showed that Ehiem, 40, had been in regular contact with Balducci before Balducci's arrest last month and the subject of their conversation was gay sex,” specifically the kind that you pay for. “[A]mong the men Ehiem allegedly procured for Balducci were seminarians. In one, Balducci is quoted as asking Ehiem: ‘At what time does he have to return to the seminary?’”
“Balducci’s lawyer, Franco Coppi, one of Italy’s highest profile attorneys, told Reuters he had no comment on the newest accusations against his client, saying: ‘We have much more serious things to be concerned with right now,’ referring to the corruption charges,” reports the Post. Ehiem has already been kicked out of choir as punishment, and Balducci will not be listed in the next edition of the Vatican directory. No word on whether the two will get to walk at graduation.
The second in command at the Vatican is coming under criticism from gay rights groups around the world after he drew a link between homosexuality and pedophilia.
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican's Secretary of State, said during a news conference in Chile yesterday that homosexuality is to blame for child sex abuse by priests, not church's celibacy requirement.
The Associated Press quotes Bertone as saying, "Many psychologists and psychiatrists have demonstrated that there is no relation between celibacy and pedophilia. But many others have demonstrated, I have been told recently, that there is a relation between homosexuality and pedophilia. That is true."
Bertone did not give any specifics as to where he got that information. It is in direct contradiction to other studies that show pedophilia is not tied to a person's sexual orientation.
Chicago has a thriving gay community and the latest data from the American Community Survey indicates 5.7% of Chicago's population is gay, according to Ryan Erickson at the Center on Halsted, considered the center of the LGBT community in Chicago.
As far as Bertone's comments, Erickson said, "It was a baseless thing to say."
The Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation in Chile condemns Bertone's assertion. The AP quotes the group's president as saying, "This is a perverse strategy by the Vatican to shirk its own ethical and legal responsibility by making a spurious and disgusting connection."
It's pointed out that one of the high-profile sex scandal cases in Chile's Roman Catholic Church involves a priest who raped girls and impregnated one of them.
Bertone is in Chile to deliver a a state of Our Lady of Carmel, according to a press release from the Catholic News Agency. The statues is a gift from the Pope Benedict XVI that will travel to the various affected by the recent earthquake in Chile
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About 50 protesters, including members of the gay group OutRage, demonstrated outside London's Westminster Cathedral Sunday, March 28 demanding that Pope Benedict XVI resign for "covering up child sex abuse by Catholic clergy."
In 2003, Ratzinger wrote: "Legal recognition of homosexual unions or placing them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of deviant behavior, 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."
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Gay history is always in the making and I believe we are living in a day and age that is very fascinating, as fascinating as the Stonewall Riots 40 years ago. 
