Pope’s Newest Bishop Wants to Jail Gay People

Claims gay men are ‘diseased’ and should be cured

James Finn
James Finn - The Blog
5 min readFeb 20, 2020

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Roman Catholic Bishop Alfred Rotich, also a chaplain in the Kenyan army, at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, July 6, 2011. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons

Pope Francis just elevated an extremist homophobe to high office. The newly invested Bishop Alfred Rotich publicly supports imprisoning gay men. He preaches that homosexuality is a disease that can be cured. Catholics all over the world must join decent people everywhere in calling out the pope and

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James Finn
James Finn - The Blog

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.