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"Perverts," not gays.


Belgium's Roman Catholic cardinal Gustaaf Joos Gustaaf Joos (July 5 1923 - November 2 2004) was a Belgian cleric, who was elevated to the Roman Catholic College of Cardinals on 21 October 2003.

He studied with Karol Woytyla before his election as Pope John Paul II.
 thinks most lesbians and gays are not really gay at all, they're they're  

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 just "perverts." In an interview published by P-Magazine in January January: see month. , the 80-year-old Joos, a close friend of the pope's, said he was prepared to "sign here in my blood" that only 5% to 10% of self-identified gays and lesbians are actually gay. "Real homosexuals don't don't  

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 walk the streets in colorful suits," he said. "They are people with a serious problem and have to learn to live with it."
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Title Annotation:Belgium
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:4EUBL
Date:Mar 2, 2004
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