SMH.
BRUSSELS: The embattled head of Belgium’s Catholic church has defended his controversial remarks on AIDS, gays and paedophile priests, insisting that his words had been twisted.
Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard has been accused of homophobia and his spokesman abruptly resigned after the church leader described gay love as a travesty of nature and AIDS as ”a sort of intrinsic justice”.
He also sparked outrage last month when he implied that elderly priests who sexually abused children long ago should be spared.
But it’s all right, because he meant it in a good way…
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