LA PLATA, Argentina — Archbishop Hector Aguer from the city of La Plata in Argentina is calling a lewd advertisement for a homosexual nightclub filmed surreptitiously inside the city’s cathedral an “abomination protected by the law.”
The video, titled “Body of Christ,” is full of sexual connotations and shows the scantily clad Peruvian singer La Tigresa del Oriente (The Tigress of the East) and the man-to-woman transvestite “Pocha Leiva” simulating an act of confession inside the cathedral and praying the Our Father while calling themselves “the goddesses of sexual desire.”
“Let’s pray a lot for these depraved people who have lost their way, so that Jesus may touch their hearts and convert them.”
The video is being used to promote the La Plata gay bar Fiesta Yummy.
“A shameless woman, indecorously dressed and accompanied by another character who looked like a woman, entered [the cathedral] to film a video in which she dances and sings,” Archbishop Aguer explained to his parishioners during his Sunday homily June 22, according to InfoNews.com.
“She dared to enter a confessional mockingly and blasphemed the Holy Eucharist, mimicking communion and expressing herself in a gravely scandalous way,” he continued.
“I have heard the video was destined for a gay nightclub in the city of La Plata,” said the prelate. “Now we see as normal these abominations protected by the law.”
In the video, people are shown receiving Communion while the singers make sexually-suggestive noises and gestures.
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The archbishop asked parishioners to offer the Corpus Christi Mass in reparation for the Cathedral’s profanation. “Let’s pray a lot for these depraved people who have lost their way, so that Jesus may touch their hearts and convert them,” he said. “Everything is possible for His mercy and omnipotence.”
“Sadly, religious signs, the faith and the sacraments are not protected by the law,” he added later, explaining the perpetrators could be “processed for vandalism against a national monument but not for the offense committed against the sacred place.”
Reactions from homosexual groups were immediate, charging the bishop with ‘discrimination’ and accusing him of calling “homosexuality an abomination protected by the law.” Local news headlines also carried the claim.
The LGBT Argentinean Federation (FALGBT) published a press release on June 24 demanding “the Vatican State [apply] an exemplifying sanction to the Archbishop of La Plata.”
Cesar Cigliutti, president of the Argentinean Homosexual Community, said in a press release: “We are still waiting for the Vatican and Francis I to change once and for all the dogmatic definition towards us that in the Catechism is stated as a ‘deviation of nature,’ which provokes violence, persecution and murders towards our community throughout the world.”
Fr. Juan Carlos Molina, who is president of the Commission for the Prevention of Drug Addiction and the Fight against Drug Trafficking, told local radio station Nacional Rock 93.7 FM, “We don’t all think like him. … Aguer has always had this strong vision against homosexuality, which is not that of Francis.”
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered” and “contrary to the natural law” in paragraph 2357.