What goes around comes around

Why is it that the most outspoken protestors against the GLBT community have nasty, rotting, decomposing bodies in their own closets? What's that expression about removing the plank from your own eye?

(New York City) As rector of St. Patrick's Cathedral Monsignor Eugene Clark blamed gays for "destroying the church", now he's been named as "the other man" in a nasty divorce involving a woman who worked for the diocese.

In divorce papers filed in Eastchester, New York, Philip DeFilippo alleges Clark had a long term affair with his wife, Laura, the Monsignor's personal secretary. The filing claims that the affair led to the breakup of the DeFilippo's marriage.

Clark resigned Thursday. The 79-year-old Clark has denied the affair with his 46-year-old private secretary.

A spokesperson for Edward Cardinal Egan said the cardinal accepted the resignation but would have no comment on the case.

Clark's duties as a monsignor in the New York Archdiocese included regular appearances on the Catholic cable television network EWTN, on a show called "Relationships."

He also worked as an editor of "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."

In 2002 Clark Clark blamed gays for the sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church. In a homily delivered from the pulpit at the cathedral 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.

Clark later recanted his comments, but within months he launched a new salvo, accusing gays of destroying Catholic family life.

In a radio broadcast he said Hollywood was controlled by gays and their supporters advancing a "homosexual agenda".

"A whole generation of Americans has been solicited...by American popular culture which is Hollywood and the media, Hollywood taking the most advanced step in this."