Gary Meier, Openly Gay St. Louis Priest, Reacts to Pope Francis’s Remarks on Homosexuality

ST. LOUIS (MO)
Riverfront Times

By Jessica Lussenhop Tue., Jul. 30 2013

Father Gary Meier has apparently become the nation’s spokesman for gay clergy.

When Daily RFT reached Father Gary Meier yesterday afternoon he was waiting for a car service to pick him up and take him to a television studio for a satellite interview with CNN.
“I don’t like the cars,” he grumbled, saying he prefers to drive himself.

Meier has been inundated with interview requests ever since Pope Francis gave a surprising response to reporters who asked him, essentially, what his views are on homosexual priests.

“If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” the Holy Father answered in Italian.

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