Priest suing gay dating app Grindr because it permanently derailed his upward trajectory to the position of bishop
LOS ANGELES – A Catholic monsignor who alleges in a lawsuit that Grindr’s improper sharing of his private information has derailed his hope to be a bishop says in new court papers that he had no idea, when he began using the gay dating app, that he would be required to arbitrate any disputes.
Burrill’s information was bought by the Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal, a theologically conservative private foundation who gave the data to The Pillar, which in July 2021 published worldwide an article in which Burrill’s use of Grindr was revealed and he was “smeared with false and lurid claims,” including suggestions that he may have been involved with minors, the suit states.
The consequences came quick, the suit states.
“Plaintiff's reputation was immediately destroyed and he has received an endless river of worrisome threats and hate mail,” the suit states.
“He was forced to leave his position as general secretary with the USCCB and his upward trajectory to the position of bishop has been permanently derailed.”
https://usa.inquirer.net/170021/priest-s...-agreement
LOS ANGELES – A Catholic monsignor who alleges in a lawsuit that Grindr’s improper sharing of his private information has derailed his hope to be a bishop says in new court papers that he had no idea, when he began using the gay dating app, that he would be required to arbitrate any disputes.
Burrill’s information was bought by the Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal, a theologically conservative private foundation who gave the data to The Pillar, which in July 2021 published worldwide an article in which Burrill’s use of Grindr was revealed and he was “smeared with false and lurid claims,” including suggestions that he may have been involved with minors, the suit states.
The consequences came quick, the suit states.
“Plaintiff's reputation was immediately destroyed and he has received an endless river of worrisome threats and hate mail,” the suit states.
“He was forced to leave his position as general secretary with the USCCB and his upward trajectory to the position of bishop has been permanently derailed.”
https://usa.inquirer.net/170021/priest-s...-agreement
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
