Anti-gay Austrian priest stopped from preaching
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Austria's Roman Catholic church is forbidding a priest from preaching to his flock at Easter Mass because of his comments against homosexuals and Muslims.
The move comes after the priest, Karl Tropper, described homosexuality as "perverse," in a recent newspaper interview. He has also described Islam as "pure racism."
Spokesman Georg Plank of Austria's south eastern Graz-Seckau diocese said Friday that Tropper, 75, has repeatedly used an "unacceptably simplistic and inciting tone" about homosexuality and Islam.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}He adds that this can no longer be explained away to the "obstinacy of old age."
Plank also notes Tropper will be pensioned Aug. 31.