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Published in: May-June 2024 issue.

 

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Download This  The cavalcade of prominent anti-LGBT clergymen and politicians with a secret gay history seems endless; and yet, like unhappy families, each is special in his own way. The case of Michael Voris offers the added bonus that he was an early leader of the “ex-gay” movement who founded and, until recently, headed up the Catholic media company Church Militant. Needless to say, the spectacle of “ex-gay” leaders and hucksters getting busted in gay flagrante is a commonplace; usually it involves being spotted in a gay bar or cruising on Grindr. What cost Voris his position at Church Militant were multiple instances of sending shirtless selfies to his staff. An investigation by Restoring the Faith reported that Voris had “continually [texted]half-nude selfies to his young, single male employees.” Sure, uploading these photos to the Church Militant Dropbox could be chalked up to carelessness (oops!), but sending them to young men under his tutelage seems downright reckless—possibly worth the risk if it resulted in a hookup? And if indeed that was the objective, let the reader be the judge of how realistic these hopes may have been.

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