Raymond Gravel

Raymond Gravel (born in 1952) is a catholic Prêtre and a politician Québécois. He is the deputy bloquist of Repentigny to the House of Commons of Canada.

At the time of its youth, he is male prostitute and works in a homosexual bar. At the sixteen years age, it leaves the house to become a male escort. After having worked in the gay bars, it decided to enter a seminar in 1982. He was priest in the parish of the Plain in the Diocèse of Joliette.

The October 29th 2006, it is chosen by acclamation to be the candidate of the Québécois Block. It must temporarily give up its ministry to exert its political offices, which causes him much sorrow. To present itself, it was necessary for him to consult its bishop, Gilles Lussier, which would not have prevented this decision. However, he was criticized by the canonist Gilles Routhier, who indicates that this procedure is not in conformity with the canonical Code of right of 1983.

The November 27th 2006, at the time of a by-election held to fill the vacant seat left by Benoit Sauvageau, tragically deceased at the time of a road accident, Raymond Gravel is elected appointed Québécois Block in Repentigny, demolishing the candidates preserving, liberal néo-democrat and by a very great margin.

The Gravel abbot is the first Québécois priest to be made elect with the House of Commons of Canada; he is however the third priest souverainist with being elected, the two others being the abbots Jacques Couture and Louis O' Neill, elected with the National Assembly of Quebec in 1976. He is discussed because of his support to the Homosexual marriage and the Avortement, two contrary positions with those of the Catholic church.

He was signatory of a letter of nineteen priests contestaires of the social Doctrine of the Church. Gravel already affirmed in the homosexual review Fugues that the half of the Québécois priests are homosexual. It is also in favor of the independence of Quebec. However, it was committed abstaining from voting as a deputy on any contrary motion with the doctrines of the Church.

It in addition expressed its dissension on the initiative papal Summorum Pontificum redefining the use of the mass tridentine. In October 2007, he proposed that the province of Quebec adopts its own version of the Loi of 1905, which confers the property of the places of worship on the State.

In 2005, the Congrégation for catholic education prohibited the ordination of homosexual priests. Gravel would never have been ordered if these standards had been applied at the time.

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