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Boggles the mind, and he also appears to conflate being gay with being involved in abuse. He immediately backtracks, realizing what he said.
He was in conversation on his radio show with Barry Lynn of Americans United For Seperation of Church and State.
Via Newsbusters:
SCHULTZ: It’s strange to parallel these stories but I’m going to do it. The National Football League is asking prospects at their annual combine if they’re gay. NFL prospect Nick Kasa was asked by scouts about his sexual orientation at the NFL combine. Now folks, I don’t even know if this is legal, OK? (laughs) But the NFL is, the NFL is its own society, you know, 32 of the wealthiest people in America own teams that everybody can’t get enough of, so they’re going to pick and choose who the hell works for ’em. (what’s the country coming to when employers can do that?!) Would they be asking this kind of a question in a conclave to start cleaning up the scandals and the abuse in the Catholic Church? I mean, I, you know, what do you think, Reverend?
LYNN (taken aback): Yeah, well, you know, it wouldn’t even get to, even if they asked, that wouldn’t be the question because to be gay is not necessarily to be a pedophile …
SCHULTZ (interrupting): True, I, but you know what I’m talking …
LYNN: … and most of your listeners do. Sure, but no, they’re not going to ask that because they, because they (let me think about this …), this is not part of the kind of inquiry that’s going to go on in making this decision. (Lynn changes subject). I think you’re going to see another European pope. You’re not going to see the first pope from Africa, you’re not going to see a pope from the United States. I think you’re going to see a hard liner, unfortunately again (you know, one of those religious types), who will not deal with these issues. On the NFL thing, by the way, since I also went to law school, it’s an interesting question. It is a private entity, the NFL, but there are circumstances and in some cities, inquiring about sexual orientation could be the basis for, for some kind of legal action.