With the Vatican likely to bar gay men from becoming priest, gay priests (many of who feel they are being scapegoated for crimes committed by pedophiles) and seminarians are feeling torn on whether they will stay with the church. Today’s New York Times features Gay Men Ponder Impact of Proposal by Vatican.

“I feel like a Jew in Berlin in the 1930’s,” said a 48-year-old gay priest who has spent 18 years in a religious order. He said he was considering donning a pink triangle – the symbol used by the Nazis – and getting heterosexual priests and members of the laity to wear the triangles as a protest.

I wonder what the next big issue will be for the Catholic church once they become bored with homosexuality (or have completed the anti-gay to-do list). It certainly won’t be helping people.

They should work on getting their story straight on whether it’s okay to eat chicken on Fridays during Lent. And if it’s not, why is it okay to eat eggs? I asked a nun once when I was seven and she told me that “we don’t question things.” I would have asked her who she was referring to with “we,” but it wasn’t worth it.

Nuns never liked me and my silly little questions…

“Why do we need to make Communion?”

Because, Maria, if you don’t make Communion you can’t get married.

“I can’t get married? People who aren’t Catholic get married all the time.”

You can’t get married in the church.

“What if I never get married? I may be going through all this for nothing? I never said I wanted to be married in a church.”

Wednesday afternoons were so much fun.