- BRUSSELS -ñ Outspoken
Belgian Cardinal Gustaaf Joos has branded 95 percent of gay people "sexual
perverts".
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- In an interview with the Flemish 'P-magazine' 80-year-old
Joos, who was appointed a Roman Catholic cardinal last year, said the majority
of gays were people with "serious problems" who needed help.
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- "I am ready to write in my own blood that of all
the people who say they are homosexual only 5 or 10 percent really are.
The others are simply sexual perverts," the cardinal said.
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- "Real homosexuals don't parade around the streets
in brightly coloured clothes. Those people have a problem they must learn
to live with. We should help them not judge them," he added.
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- Joos said he was not worried about the prospect of thousands
of angry gay people coming to protest outside his front door because of
his comments.
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- "I just won't open it," he said bluntly.
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- Pope John Paul II made Joos a cardinal last October along
with 30 other senior Catholic churchmen.
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- Copyright Expatica News 2004
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