Vatican official suspended for propositioning a young man insists he's not gay

He's not gay and he has never been gay. It's Larry Craig in a clerical collar:

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A Vatican official suspended after being caught on hidden camera making advances to a young man says he is not gay and was only pretending to be gay as part of his work.

In an interview published Sunday, Monsignor Tommaso Stenico told La Repubblica daily he frequented online gay chat rooms and met with gay men as part of his work as a psychoanalyst. He said that he pretended to be gay in order to gather information about "those who damage the image of the Church with homosexual activity."

Vatican teaching holds that gays and lesbians should be treated with compassion and dignity but that homosexual acts are "intrinsically disordered."

The Vatican said Saturday it was suspending Stenico after he was secretly filmed making advances to a young man and asserting that gay sex was not sinful during a television program on gay priests broadcast Oct. 1 on La7, a private Italian television network.

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So, he says he was trying to track down gays because the Church says gay sex is sinful. Yet, he is on record hitting on a young man and telling that young man that gay sex is not sinful.

Yo, Monsignor: Regardless of whether gay sex is "right" or "wrong" (and I can't believe it's wrong), keep in mind that lying is definitely wrong.