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And Finally
Ricky Martin criticised by religious leaders back home
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 15 April 2011
Having won plaudits in the US for formally coming out last year and providing young gay Americans with a good role model, there has been some high profile criticism of Ricky Martin back in his home country of Puerto Rico, according to gay community website On Top, with one church leader declaring the popstar was “an ambassador for hell”.
Wanda Rolon, who is a preacher at the island’s First Christian Church of La Senada Antigua, apparently made the statement in a Facebook rant about Martin’s sexuality, though strangely she subsequently denied claims she was homophobic.
Rolon is not a lone critic, it seems, with another religious leader on the island, Cardinal Luis Aponte Martinez of San Juan, also criticising Martin for being open about his homosexuality. Says Martinez: “I admire Ricky for the great artistic gifts the Lord has endowed him, but please, for the love of his children, for whom I imagine he wants the best, try to set an example to our youth of the great values we all share, besides sex”.
He continued: “[The Roman Catholic church] does not reject the homosexual [but] their immoral actions and behaviors, and trying to promote homosexuality or sexual promiscuity among our youth, indeed, is immoral regardless of where it comes from”.
Yeah, whatever you say Luis, whatever you say.
