Ethics

Appalling Comments from Scottish Bishop

By Ed Brayton

A Catholic bishop in Edinburgh had some rather outrageous things to say about gays and the holocaust:

"The homosexual lobby has been extremely effective in aligning itself with minority groups," the Right Rev Joseph Devine, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Motherwell, told a Glasgow audience.

"It is ever present at the service each year for the Holocaust memorial - as if to create for themselves the image of a group of people under persecution," he told the audience.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 17, 2008 (boomark / email).