Catholic officials in New York and Pennsylvania have publicly named dozens of pedophile priests in just the last two weeks. So naturally Catholic League blowhard Bill Donohue today rushed out a condemnation of “lethal” gay sodomy. Via press release:



The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has declared April to be STD Awareness Month. The latest data show that “STDs are at a record high.” When it says that men having sex with men are at greater risk of getting an STD, it means that sodomy can be dangerous, even lethal. It should say so.

Instead, the CDC says we need to “talk, test, and treat.” But that strategy, which has been tried for decades, has obviously failed.

We have no problem stigmatizing smokers, but we have a real problem stigmatizing those who engage in reckless sex. So stigmatization is not a taboo among the cultural elite—it just depends on whether the subject is smoking or sodomy.