Dominican Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez’ ongoing homophobic attacks against gay American ambassador James “Wally” Brewster continued on Tuesday when he told reporters “This man needs to go back to his embassy. He should stick to housework, since he is a man’s wife.”
López has a history of using antigay rhetoric to denigrate the ambassador. In 2013, he referred to Brewster as “a faggot” and claimed the United States appointed Brewster as a way of promoting LGBT rights in the predominately Catholic country.
Brewster, who married his husband, Bob Satawake, on the same day he was sworn in as ambassador, shrugged off López’ latest attacks. The two say living their lives openly as a loving gay couple is their best defense to López’ continual homophobic slurs.
“One of the key things that I want to continue to focus on as Bob and I have is to show that we’re a loving couple and we are gay,” Brewster told the Washington Blade in June. “We are out there talking about relationships, talking about our faith and really representing the American people in a way that I think continues to promote our values.”
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Deivis Ventura, a candidate for the Santo Domingo Municipal Council, took a sharper tone to the latest insult, telling the Blade, “He uses rhetorical expressions to demonstrate his opposition to the U.S. ambassador’s pronouncements. [His] insulting words show his lack of understanding of his role as a pastor in the Catholic Church.”
H/t: LGBTQ Nation
Brian JC Kneeland
and who is his wife? Who fixes his meals? Who drives him everywhere?
1EqualityUSA
The Cardinal sounds threatened. Good response, shrugging him off as a benign growth. The fruit of the tree will tell.
Bryguyf69
FIRST! 🙂
While the Pope still opposes same-sex marriage, he has repeatedly spoken in favor of respect and the dignity of gays. He even met with a gay friend and his partner during his visit to Washington DC. The friend, Yayo Grassi, quotes a letter he received from the Pope, “In my pastoral work there is no place for homophobia.” And I believe him to be sincere. As such, I’d be very interested to see how he reacts to his fellow Latin clergyman’s very public and explicit antigay rhetoric. Indeed, his comments are not just liturgical but also diplomatic in nature. In other words, the Cardinal is insults an entire nation when you insult its ambassador. It will be interesting to see if Pope Francis offers a public rebuke of the Cardinal — or any rebuke at all.
Join me in emailing the Vatican about this. I merely emailed a link to this article. See links for email addresses.
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2015/10/07/popes-gay-friend-speaks-out/
http://www.tldm.org/email/vatican_emails.htm
http://vatican.com/contact
Bryguyf69
@Bryguyf69: Moronic Queerty automatically blocked my first 4 attempts to post, thinking it was spam. Too many links. I had to delete some of the links in my first post so here they are:
http://vatican.usembassy.gov/vatican/writing.html
http://vatican.usembassy.gov/contact.html
Sam D. Maloney
Big words from a man in a dress with a dick shaped hat.
Kangol
This cardinal López Rodríguez is a very rotten apple.
He has repeatedly, publicly attacked LGBTIQ people in Santo Domingo, using the term “maricones,” which is a slur, and calling them “social trash” and “degenerates.” In he ranted about the fact that gay people were congregating in the historic district, the Conde.
Meanwhile, he helped a Polish priest and pedophile abscond from the Dominican Republic before the authorities could apprehend the criminal, who had raped a number of impoverished children! He also refused to say anything about the rape of girls in a Dominican orphanage. That is the kind of person cardinal López Rodríguez is.
Unsurprisingly, he is also a r@cist, and instead of providing any kind of pastoral relief or response to the Haitian-Dominicans who have faced deportation because of the abrupt change in law, he basically voiced support for the forced expulsion of people of Haitian ancestry born since 1929 in the DR, whom the law’s change will make stateless.
This man is a old queeny monster. He ought to have been outed years ago.
Will Glitzern
Fortunately, his time on earth is almost up.
gaym50ish
That guys like this can rise to the level Cardinal illustrates just how corrupt the Catholic Church is.
captainburrito
The postitive side of this is the Cardinal implicitly recognizes their marriage.
aussietrbl
No True Man of God would say such a thing. Organized Religion is a laugh
James
The ambassadors comments to the cardinal were very nice, if it were me I would have said, go fukkkkkkk yourself you decayed useless sack of shiiiiiiit.
edhis
What a bitchy remark.
GayEGO
Cardina Nichole is screaming because the gay ambassador is enjoying his life and she can’t.
Uncle Mark
@Sam D. Maloney: I love your comment, Sam!! You beat me to it, but phrased it better with that “dick-shaped hat” addition. Kudos !!
Mack
Why should anyone be surprised by any thing that a member of the Catholic Church does? To me instead of preaching love and acceptance the Catholic Church preaches hate. They’re no different than the Westboro Baptist Church except bigger.
For the life of me I can’t understand how ANY gays can attend a church or organization that preaches hatred toward me. I can’t understand how anyone can put their children in a church or organization that preaches hatred toward their parents. Maybe it’s just me, but why give your hard earn money to an organization that uses it against you?
If anything should be done a complaint should be made to the Secretary of State and he in turn make a complaint to the Vatican. The Ambassador is an employee of the Department of State and the Cardinal is an employee of the Vatican who is it’s own country.
SteveDenver
So says the pedophile drag queen.
Uncle Mark
@GayEGO: If only that bitter, old bitch would take that staff out of her ass, and lighten up. (I guess that happens after years of rejection from the altar boys.)
Phil Kenyon
How is that a put-down?
alphacentauri
This guy is from the Dominican Republic I am not surprised.
Randy Judd
Coming from someone dressed in Drag
Jim Guinnessey
What a bigoted and insulting moron this jerk of a cardinal is. He should be sacked by the Vatican and called to task by the US Secretary of State for publicly insulting an American ambassador. Was this another of Benedict XVI’s nasty appointments? The catholic world is plagued by most of John Paul II’s and Benedict XVI’s juvenile and vile episcopal appointments.
AJ Sarabia
You say that while wearing a shinny dress.
billeetee
Another ‘closeted Catholic priest’, doing what he believes he has to do to ‘survive’: turn up the heat in everyone else’s kitchen.
Personally I’d love to see some seven foot tall drag queen in ‘full battle dress’, BITCHSLAP this m-f all over the inside of the church.
Kangol
@alphacentauri: What is your comment about the Dominican Republic supposed to mean? Are you slandering an entire country because of a hateful, homophobic, pedophile-protecting closet-case cardinal? Where are you from, some place where no one has ever done anything stupid or bad or harmful? Because that place doesn’t exist!
Sand Nierenberg
He’s like what 200 yrs old now he will be dead soon who cares about what this fossil thinks please begone
Erven Cote
Bigot and idiot
James Hart
@Jim Guinnessey: He was appointed by Pope Francis.
bottom250
If wife is a put down then I will be some man’s wife.
Ken Overholt
Said the man in the gold lamé dress.
Bobby Smith
Let’s just wait. He himself is a bottom bxtch. That is why he is so homophobic
Soon it will be shown the dirty life this “Cardinal” has being living!
Mike Smith
Where’s isis when you need them”
Barry Stradtner
He was probably too busy molesting alter boys.
Jeff Eiselman
Sour grapes.
Steve Jones
“Wife” is a term of power and respect. How is this denigrating?
Ditamo
Don’t they say nuns are married to Jesus? With that logic, priests are also married to Jesus, so to be honest all Catholic priests are in reality in a gay relationship with Jesus. These closeted priests need to accept themselves for what they are, the wives of Jesus!
David Sutton
So sad.
davenbill
“This man needs to go back to his embassy. He should stick to housework, since he is a man’s wife.” This coming from somebody wearing more glitz and glitter than a drag queen. The Miter is pointed to cover his dunce cap and cone head.
Kangol
@James Hart: @Jim Guinnessey: He was appointed Archbishop of Santo Domingo and elevated to the rank of Cardinal in 1981, by John Paul II.
Wikipedia: Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez
scotty
Sounds like the cardinal is a bit too deep in his closet.