Painting gay Catholics not only as sinners, but as a sinister force

I loved the Catholic Church as a boy, but left it as a young man after hearing a priest with long, groovy hair (it was the '70s) sermonize about gay people and our purportedly pernicious ways. Sort of like the slander emanating once again from certain quarters at the Vatican, where Catholic "traditionalists" — I'd call them reactionaries — are accusing Pope Francis of willfully ignoring the supposed role of "homosexual networks" in the church's ongoing sexual abuse scandals.

http://www2.philly.com/philly/columnists/kevin_riordan/catholic-church-sex-abuse-gay-sinners-20180830.html