"If you attack me, I will attack you…"
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Remember the handsome priest you caused last month by coming out as gay and consequently getting kicked out of the church? Well, he's back, more provocative and controversial than ever!
Krzysztof Charamsa, the priest polonês that scandalized the Vatican upon announcing his homosexuality, he wrote a manifesto in defense of gays with Ten commandments addressed to the Catholic Church to abandon the persecution against this group of people.
"It's not like the Islamic State that persecutes homosexual people, killing them. The Catholic Church doesn't kill people, but it kills them psychologically", says Charamsa confidently in an interview with AFP. "The Church kills Gay Boys with his retrograde position, with his denial, with his contempt and with the continuous teachings against homosexuals", he explains.
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In Barcelona, where he now lives with his partner, Charamsa explains the details of this "New gay liberation manifesto" delivered exclusively to AFP. After publicly revealing his homosexuality, the 43-year-old former Vatican employee and theologian was suspended by the Polish bishops' conference and can no longer officiate at Mass or wear a cassock.
Its manifesto is "a call to Catholic church, a kind of new Ten Commandments to be applied in this context", he explains.
In the text, he asks the Vatican to annul offensive documents in Catholic teaching on homosexual people, review the ecclesiastical interpretation of biblical texts in relation to this matter and admit homosexuals to the priesthood.
In the same way, it proposes starting a dialogue with the evangelical and Anglican religions, which are more advanced in recognizing homosexual rights, and demands an apology from the Vatican "for its omissions and silences, its persecutions and crimes carried out against homosexuals over the centuries".
Currently, Catholic doctrine points out that homosexual relationships "are intrinsically disordered" and "contrary to natural law". He asks for "respect and compassion" for these people, but demands chastity from them.
The stance is based on small excerpts from the Bible that, in his opinion, do not explicitly condemn homosexuality and should be seen "in the historical and cultural context of their time". “Centuries ago we used the Bible to defend slavery,” he recalls.
In its manifesto, it also demands that the Church not criticize the legalization of homosexual marriage in some countries, while it does not condemn the punishment of homosexuality in dozens of countries around the world.
"The Catholic Church is happy, it is happy with these cases of persecution and penalization because the penalization of homosexuality is a legal confirmation of its teaching on homosexuality", he explains.
"Until it openly rejects and condemns this penalty, the Church is complicit in anti-homosexual terror."
It's for you? What would the 10 commandments look like if you could rewrite them?
