Last month, President Barack Obama nominated James “Wally†Brewster, Jr. to become the ambassador to the Dominican Republic. A real estate mogul, Brewster is also National LGBT Co-Chair for the Democratic National Committee and serves on the Board of the Human Rights Campaign Fund. And Brewster is gay. In response to the Brewster nomination, the Catholic Cardinal of the Dominican Republic — a Caribbean nation on the island of Hispaniola — showed his version of “Christian love.”
“Catholic Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López RodrÃguez referred to Brewster as a ‘maricón’ — which is usually translated as ‘faggot’ — during a press conference,” J. Lester Feder at Buzzfeed reported a few days ago:
At his side, Monseñor Pablo Cedano promised the nominee such an unpleasant stay in the country that he will have to return home.
“I hope he does not arrive in the country because I know if he comes he is going to suffer and will have to leave,†Cedano said. He called it “a lack of respect†that Obama “sent … a person of this kind as an ambassador,†adding, “[W]e don’t despise the person.â€
Now, just days later, a priest in the Cardinal’s archdiocese reportedly is being accused of pedophilia, and escaping the island nation under an assumed name — and possibly with two boys.
“Dominican Today says the Santiago Office of the Prosecutor announced Wednesday that it’s waiting for Immigration to specify whether a Polish Catholic priest, Wojciech (“Alberto”) Gil, accused of pedophilia by several families, has left the Dominican Republic under another identity,” reports AKSARBENT:
Investigators have determined that two minors from Juncalito have left the country, perhaps with Gil.     Faced with a widening scandal, the Santiago Archdiocese, headed by Catholic Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López RodrÃguez, announced Gil’s “suspension” effective May 30, reported Dominican Today on July 3.
Blabbeando has an extensive report and a roundup from other news sources on the Cardinal’s behavior.
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Hat tip: Towleroad