ANGER OVER BLAMING GAYS FOR MISCONDUCT

Members of Long Island's gay community gathered last night in Deer Park to discuss how best to combat leaders who they say are unfairly blaming them in the wake of strong words by several church and community officials linking homosexuality to pedophilia.  Meeting organizer Tom Hroncich and other activists say they are angered by a series of statements by church and community leaders linking homosexuality to pedophile priests.  Hroncich, who is publisher of the local gay and lesbian magazine Outlook Long Island, said, I find it ironic that leaders of the Roman Catholic Church are trying to shift blame for their misdeeds to gay priests, and by extension the gay community.

(New York)