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Italian Catholic priest Don Mario Bonfanti is making the headlines after having decided to 'reveal the truth' about being gay

17 October 2012 | By Daniele Guido Gessa

A Catholic priest is now making the headlines in Italy after having decided to come out on Facebook on International Coming Out Day (11 October).

‘I am gay. Or, better, I am a happily gay priest,’ he stated.

Don Mario Bonfanti, 41, is a priest in Pagnano, near Lecco, in the Italian region of Lombardy. And his openness about his sexuality is something of a revolution.

Openly gay priests, in Italy, are a rarity. The Italian Catholic church is know for not being tolerant of LGBT people.

Bonfanti wrote on Facebook: ‘Truth makes us free, so Jesus said.

‘But, strangely, the Church denies this sentence. Catholic LGBT people must come out. They have to accept the truth.’

Last March, don Bonfanti was banned from another parish in Brianza, Lombardy, for having supported same-sex unions.

The local community defendend their priest, but the bishop did not change his mind and moved don Bonfanti to another church.

Now, a new group, with more than 1,200 followers, has been created on Facebook. ‘Io sto con don Mario’ (I support don Mario), is the name of the group.

Don Mario Bonfanti added: ‘I am happy in this way.’

Huff Post Gay Voices

A Catholic priest is shaking up the Italian media after reportedly coming out on Facebook.

As Gay Star News is reporting, Don Mario Bonfanti declared his sexuality on Coming Out Day, Oct. 11.

Bonfanti is quoted as writing on Facebook, "I am gay. Or, better, I am a happily gay priest."

He went on to note, "Truth makes us free, so Jesus said. But, strangely, the Church denies this sentence. Catholic LGBT people must come out. They have to accept the truth."

Further details of the priest's coming out, as well as his church's reaction, are relatively scarce (at least in the English media), but a new Facebook group, "Io sto con don Mario," or "I support don Mario," has since been launched and currently has over 1,500 members.

It's the second LGBT-related shakeup to take place in or around the Catholic church in recent weeks. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that 63 former Roman Catholic priests would publicly back Referendum 74, which would make Washington the seventh U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage, on Oct. 11.

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If you want someone who will eat whatever you put in front of him
And never say it's not quite as good as his mother's

Then adopt a dog.

If you want someone always willing to go out, at any hour,
For as long and wherever you want …


Then adopt a dog.

If you want someone who will never touch the remote,
Doesn't care about football,
And can sit next to you as you watch romantic movies


Then adopt a dog.

If you want someone who is content to get on your bed just to
Warm your feet and whom you can push off if he snores


Then adopt a dog.

If you want someone who never criticizes what you do,
Doesn't care if you are pretty or ugly, fat or thin, young or old,
Who acts as if every word you say is especially worthy of listening to,
And loves You unconditionally, perpetually …


..then adopt a dog.

BUT,
On the other hand,
If you want someone
Who will never come when you call,
Ignores you totally when you come home,
Leaves hair all over the place,
Walks all over you,
Runs around all night and only comes home to eat and sleep,
And acts as if your entire existence is solely to ensure his happiness..

..then adopt a cat!

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Sponsorship for Olympic athletes usually helps both the Olympian and the company sponsoring them. The Olympian gets money to train and live, and the sponsor gains valuable exposure.

But in the case of British Gas' sponsorship of bronze medal-winning UK diver Tom Daley, the company could have benefited from checking out their company's placement on his swimsuit.

Yep, that's a pretty awkward placement. On the other hand, I doubt I'll forget about how British Gas supports Olympic divers anytime soon.

Since the London Games, Daley, who is just 18 years old, has become a superstar in Britain and is looking to cash in on his celebrity status.

When he isn't winning gold at the Junior World Diving Championships, he is teaching children in China how to dive. I am sure he'd rather be remembered for doing that than for the unfortunate product placement above.

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And Pretends To Be Gay For A Year

Huff Post Gay Voices

Thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people weren't the only ones celebrating National Coming Out Day on Thursday. A Christian man from Tennessee appeared on ABC News to talk about his own coming out experience but – he's straight.

Timothy Kurek "came out" to his family and friends and lived as a gay man for a year in order to experience what life is like as an LGB person. The Liberty College graduate told ABC News, "You learned to be very afraid of God [in church]… [And you learned] the loving thing to do is to tell my friend who is gay, 'Hey, listen, you are an abomination and you need to repent to go to heaven.' I absolutely believed in that lock, stock and barrel."

But four years ago a lesbian acquaintance of his relayed the story of how her family rejected her when she came out to them and Kurek was moved to take action.

"I feel God really kicked me in the gut," he said. "She was crying in my arms and instead of being there for her, I was thinking about all the arguments to convert her."

Soon after Kurek decided to go under cover and "come out" as a gay man.

"I came out to everybody! My friends, family, everyone," Kurek told HuffPost blogger George Elerick. "I just knew that I needed to understand, as realistically as possible, how the label of gay might change my life. The social experiment itself demanded all or nothing."

According to the Guardian, Kurek even "got a job in a gay cafe, hung out in a gay bar and joined a gay softball league, all the while maintaining his inner identity as a straight Christian."

The only people that knew the truth about what Kurek was doing were an aunt, a close friend and a gay friend who was recruited to play his boyfriend.

"I needed protection to keep me balanced and teach me the nuances of gay culture and how they flirt, and to give me an excuse when guys hit on me," said Kurek.

While Kurek claims that after he "came out" nearly 95 percent of his friends stopped talking to him, it was his mom who initially took the experiment the hardest.

"I snooped in my mother's journal one day after I had come out and she'd written, 'I'd rather have found out from a doctor that I had terminal cancer than have a gay son.'" But he says she eventually came to terms with his "sexuality" and "went from being a very conservative Christian to being an ally to the gay community."

Kurek used his experience to write a book, "The Cross In The Closet," some of the proceeds from which he says he will donate to LGBT homeless youth centers.

"What I went through is NOTHING compared to the experience of the average gay and lesbian. They were never able to say 'only 12 or eight or six more months of this before I get to be me again,'" Kurek told Elerick. "So what I consider to be the most eye-opening facet of my year was really only a glimpse of how bad the closet really is."

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