In response to support from the LGBTQ community, President Bill Clinton attempted to change the Department of Defense (DOD) homosexual exclusion policy. When Congressional hearings took place, the Clinton Administration invited many pro-LGBTQ supporters to come forward and testify. I never would have been called to offer testimony had the Commandant of the Marine Corps not distributed copies of a position paper I wrote on the subject to all of his generals. After my report was cited in The New York Times and published in the U.S. Naval Institute’s Proceedings, members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff arranged for me to testify before Congress (See: Testimony). Some said that my testimony helped prevent the policy from being abrogated, as occurred years later when President Barack Obama was elected. The Obama Administration “stacked the deck” with witnesses who deceptively reinterpreted the policy as an unjust form of discrimination against servicemembers’ sexual orientation. In truth, however, the behaviorally based policy was concerned with homosexual conduct and had nothing to do with a person’s sexual orientation.
What happened with the DOD homosexual exclusion policy is happening today in the Catholic Church. Homosexual prelates who comprise over 80% of the cardinals, and homosexual bishops and priests who make up over 80% of the Vatican staff, have stacked the Synod on Synodality with members who support changing the Catholic Church’s teaching on homosexuality. Pro-LGBTQ authors of the report include Cardinal Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio, known for his theologically heterodox positions; Archbishop Filippo Iannone, who opposed the publication of the names of accused sexual predators; Father Maurizio Chiodi, who argued that contraception can be morally permissible; and Jesuit Father Carlo Casalone, who supported the legalization of voluntary euthanasia in Italy.
After Pope Francis and Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández suffered a serious backlash from African bishops to Fiducia Supplicans, Pope Leo and the Lavender Mafia, by means of the synodal process, are attempting to change “attitudes” of Catholics toward homosexuality as a prerequisite to changing Catholic doctrine.
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