Here’s the first page of a nine page article from the New York Times on this:

O’FALLON, Mo. – With three small children and her marriage in trouble, Pat Bond attended a spirituality retreat for Roman Catholic women in Illinois 26 years ago in hopes of finding support and comfort.

What Ms. Bond found was a priest – a dynamic, handsome Franciscan friar in a brown robe – who was serving as the spiritual director for the retreat and agreed to begin counseling her on her marriage. One day, she said, as she was leaving the priest’s parlor, he pulled her aside for a passionate kiss.

Ms. Bond separated from her husband, and for the next five years she and the priest, the Rev. Henry Willenborg, carried on an intimate relationship, according to interviews and court documents. In public, they were both leaders in their Catholic community in Quincy, Ill. In private they functioned like a married couple, sharing a bed, meals, movie nights and vacations with the children.

Eventually they had a son, setting off a series of legal battles as Ms. Bond repeatedly petitioned the church for child support. The Franciscans acquiesced, with the stipulation that she sign a confidentiality agreement. It is now an agreement she is willing to break as both she and her child, Nathan Halbach, 22, are battling cancer.

With little to lose, they are eager to tell their stories: the mother, a once-faithful Catholic who says the church protected a philandering priest and treated her as a legal adversary, and the son, about what it was like to grow up knowing his absentee father was a priest.

“I’ve always called him Father Henry – never Father, never Dad,” said Nathan, at home between hospital visits. “I always felt he picked religion over me.”

And who believes in the sanctity of marriage and the love of family & children? Well, it ain’t the Catholic priests, you know, the ones who are completely against same sex marriage when they themselves refuse to show respect for the opposite sex that they say they love and have children with!

Spit.

If you’re a Mainer and you vote “yes” on Question 1 in support of repealing Maine’s same sex marriage law, go hang yourself because you’re continuing and applauding this Priests behavior! This is why one in two marriages fail in this country: BECAUSE THERE ARE EGOTISTICAL HETEROSEXUAL ASSHOLES INVOLVED!