Anti-Gay Minnesota Archbishop Investigated: Nienstedt Accused of ‘Inappropriate’ Conduct.
Ben Mathis-Lilley, Slate: Anti-Gay Minnesota Archbishop Investigated: Nienstedt Accused of ‘Inappropriate’ Conduct.
Saint Paul and Minneapolis Archbishop John Nienstedt, the guy who spearheaded a mass mailing in 2010 of 400,000 anti-gay DVDs, and created a special “marriage prayer” which he asked the state’s Catholics to recite during Mass in an effort to create support for the anti-gay amendment on Minnesota’s ballot in November, also told the mother of a gay son that she should reject him or risk burning in hell, according to a recently-surfaced letter.
(The letter didn’t use the phrase “burning in hell,” but it did tell the mother that her “eternal salvation” depended on condemning her son.)Now Nienstedt is accused, reports the magazine Commonweal, of “multiple allegations” of “inappropriate sexual conduct with seminarians, priests, and other men.”
At this point, it is safe to assume any strident anti-gay activist is a closeted, self-loathing homosexual.