UNITED STATES
I Should Be Laughing
What’s this; another sex scandal brewing for the already scandal-plagued Catholic Church? Yup, only this time it isn’t about priests raping children and the Church lying and covering it up with new jobs out of town and payoffs to the victims. No, this particular sex scandal is right in Papa’s house, The Vatican, where a former member of the Swiss Guard has claimed that he was regularly propositioned for sex by the ALLEGED ‘gay lobby’ of high-ranking clergy in the Vatican.
The man, who was responsible for the Pope’s security and for now remains unnamed — which doesn’t help with his credibility, I will say that — says that Cardinals, bishops, priests and other officials regularly tried to coerce him into illicit sex acts inside the Vatican.
The former guard said he received up to 20 ‘unambiguous requests’ from members of the clergy and that he was asked for sex by a dignitary close to Pope John Paul II; he also swears that a senior official fondled him and that a bishop left a bottle of whisky on his bed with a visiting card placed next to it. And one other incident occurred when a priest invited the guard to dinner saying that the guard would be “served” after for dessert.
Now, this is all hearsay and innuendo and rumor and gossip, but the fact remains that they are many closeted gay men within the clergy, inside and outside the Vatican, and because they must remain closeted the idea of trying to procure a sexual relationship with an employee of sorts is not that far-fetched.
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