England: monks ordered to leave presbytery after one distributes homophobic leaflets

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From the article:

A group of Catholic hermits have been ordered to leave a presbytery in the Diocese of Northampton – after PinkNews reported on the distribution of a number of extreme anti-gay leaflets.

Over the past year, a string of homophobic leaflets have been delivered across the UK, claiming that AIDS is God’s punishment for gays, homosexuality is linked to paedophilia, and that transgender people should be exorcised.

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1. Why be a hermit if you are gonna lecture country on how they should live?

Isn't hermit-ing all about avoiding the ills of the world?

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3. They should erect a 20 foot pole and sit on it for a few decades.

Like Simeon.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites

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2. A shady, skeevy group.

http://listings.findthecompany.co.uk/l/167942217/The-Black-Hermits-in-Glasgow-United-Kingdom

They have a civil legal status but apparently no canonical status.