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Pete Ross Junior

(404 posts) Mon Mar 13, 2023, 04:43 PM Mar 2023

Catholic Group Spends Millions on Dating App Data to Out Gay Priests

Catholic Group Spends Millions on Dating App Data to Out Gay Priests
PC Magazine

A conservative Catholic group in Colorado bought mobile app tracking data worth millions of dollars in order to identify gay priests across the US.

According to a Washington Post investigation(Opens in a new window), Denver-based Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal exclusively used commercially available information in its bid to track and locate gay priests. The data spans 2018 through 2021 and includes gay dating and hookup apps like Grindr, Scruff, Growlr, and Jack’d, as well as OkCupid. The Post found that most of the data appears to be from Grindr.

In its hunt for gay priests, Catholic Laity purchased data from ad brokers that showed the type of device, its location, the device ID, and the internet service provider being used along with other identifiers. The group then cross-referenced the legally purchased data with church residences that house priests.

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Catholic Group Spends Millions on Dating App Data to Out Gay Priests (Original Post) Pete Ross Junior Mar 2023 OP

Well, that's right Christian of them! bucolic_frolic Mar 2023 #1

Well, that's weird. The Catholic church doesn't care that there are gay priests out there dating. Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #2

And this same group will nakocal Mar 2023 #3

Blackmail. shenmue Mar 2023 #4

bucolic_frolic

(46,996 posts)

1. Well, that's right Christian of them!

Reply to Pete Ross Junior (Original post)

Mon Mar 13, 2023, 04:47 PM

Mar 2023

Are mobile apps a subsidiary of the Holy Ghost?

Scrivener7

(52,745 posts)

2. Well, that's weird. The Catholic church doesn't care that there are gay priests out there dating.

Reply to Pete Ross Junior (Original post)

Mon Mar 13, 2023, 05:15 PM

Mar 2023

From all my high school friends who spent time in seminary, the seminary was a happening place.

The Catholic church only cares if you and I KNOW there are lots of gay priests out there dating.

I recently read a study by a psychologist who has worked with priests for 20 years. He estimates that something over 50% of priests are not actually celibate, whether that means hetero or homosexual relationships. This study has been out there for years, and not much has changed.

An effect of this, the psychologist posits, is that those sexually active priests are vulnerable to overt and covert blackmail from pedophile priests.

The overt and covert blackmail allows the pedophile priests to demand protection from those who engage in normal heterosexual or normal homosexual activity, which goes against their vows of celibacy. That, the psychologist says, is why some priests are complicit in that they shuffle the criminal priests from place to place and never do anything to stop them.

nakocal

(605 posts)

3. And this same group will

Reply to Pete Ross Junior (Original post)

Mon Mar 13, 2023, 05:44 PM

Mar 2023

fight to prevent abused children from suing Catholic priests.

shenmue

(38,537 posts)

4. Blackmail.

Reply to Pete Ross Junior (Original post)

Mon Mar 13, 2023, 07:30 PM

Mar 2023

What a nightmare.

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