NOT ALL PRIESTS ARE CHILD-MOLESTERS. GAY-BASHING NYC MONSIGNOR RESIGNS FOR MOLESTING MARRIED WOMAN

Monsignor Eugene Clark isn't just another garden variety child-molesting priest. No, no; this one is the Rector of St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC. And Msgr. Clark is also one of the most shrill and viciously outspoken anti-gay voices in the American Catholic Church. A front page story the NY DAILY NEWS refers to him as "the motel-hopping monsignor accused of having an affair with his married church secretary" and reports that he resigned in disgrace yesterday. Although Clark, who still won't admit to conducting an affair with his married secretary (even in the face of videotaped evidence) and hasn't been defrocked, has been kicked off the air by the Eternal Word Television Network which will stop broadcasting his weekly half hour hate talk tv show. (Clark seems to have skipped over the Jesus parts of the Bible and honed in on the Old Testament wrathful parts as his bailiwick, spewing a gospel of hatred and bigotry, blaming homosexuals and "Hollywood" for destroying the church and marriage and family life. In a radio broadcast he said Hollywood was controlled by gays and their supporters and that they are advancing a "homosexual agenda."

Clark is 79 and his secretary, a married Eastchester woman with 2 children is 46. He had originally hired her right out of high school and used his influence to get a previous marriage annulled. The alleged affair was exposed by her husband, who swore to the sordid details in a statement to police. His private eye videotaped the priest and his wife July 21 when he tailed the duo to the White Sands Motel. After 5-1/2 hours inside the motel, the pair emerged wearing different clothes than they had worn when checking in.

Clark presided over her second wedding 20 years ago and became a close family friend who invited the couple to spend weekends at his $2 million vacation home in Amagansett. The husband grew suspicious when his wife began working long hours and left instructions to call only in an emergency when Clark took her on business trips to Lisbon, Portugal, and St. Bart's in the Caribbean. But the charges are not just being brought by the husband. He is backed up by other family members including his wife's sister and the couple's 14-year old daughter. The daughter gave the police a statement about a trip to Clark's Amagansett home during which she caught Clark "making out" with her mother, who was "sitting on his lap wearing a satin teddy." The daughter was also subjected to seeing her mother and Clark in the Jacuzzi together with her mother on Clark's lap. Clark and the wife are very upset that they have been caught and earlier this week, the husband won an order of protection from his wife, who he claims threatened to stab him after he told her about the tape.

Clark's fall from grace was yet another black eye for the scandal-plagued Catholic Church and a personal embarrassment for Edward Cardinal Egan, who was close to the tainted cleric, church experts said. A spokesperson for Egan said the cardinal accepted the resignation but, predictably, would have no comment on the case. Clark's duties as a monsignor in the New York Archdiocese, aside from hosting his hate-talk Catholic cable television network (EWTN) show called "Relationships," was to edit a reactionary publication called  "When Conscience and Politics Meet: A Catholic View." In 1999 Clark told a Catholic radio audience that gays are "the enemy of Christian marriage and Christian falling in love and all the tenderness that goes with that" and in 2002 Clark tried to blame gays for the sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church. In a homily delivered from the pulpit at St Patrick's, Clark called homosexuality a "disorder," and said gay men should not be allowed to become priests. It resulted in protests by gays and abuse victims who said the Church was trying to make gays scapegoats for the scandal and  Clark was forced to recant. But, like a moth drawn to a flame, within months the obsessed and hypocritical priest was launching a new hate-filled attack, accusing gays of destroying Catholic family life.

It has long been clear that Clark is a deranged and dangerous fanatic and a disgraceful blot of Jesus Christ's Church (although a perfect fit for Eddie Egan's). For serious Christians who are upset or disgusted about hate-mongering servants of Satan have taken over their Church to trample of Jesus' message of love and peace and replace it with messages of primitive hatred and fear, I want to recommend an incredible book I'm reading now. The book was written by Bishop John Spong, someone whose entire life has been dedicated to Jesus Christ's real message. The name of the book is THE SINS OF SCRIPTURE and Spong makes clear how vermin like the predators, the child molesters, the Clarks have manipulated and twisted religion to gain power in the Church hierarchy.