Archbishop Weakland is a co-founder of the AIDS Resource Centre of Wisconsin /Milwaukee AIDS Project (ARCW/NIAP). His name has appeared on official letterhead and he has solicited funds - even donating archdiocesan funds to ARCW/MAP. A recent past-president of this organisation was known to have been a homosexual activist. The organisation distributes AIDS education brochures including instruction on "safe sex" which, apart from advocating condom usage, suggest "Watersports - urinating on each other", mutual masturbation, oral sex and other activities far too distasteful to list here. Additional literature distributed by ARCW/MAP carries advertisements for X-rated gay movies, gay baths and bars, pictures of gay strippers and a Gay Photo Calendar. In 1987, Weakland was asked by a group of lay Catholics to resign his position as co-chairman of the Board of Trustees of ARCW/MAP, but he declined to do so.
Archbishop Weakland has allowed ex-priest and open dissenter Professor Daniel Maguire, to continue to teach moral theology at Milwaukee's Marquette University in clear contravention of Canon Law: Maguire has appeared regularly on the U.S. media justifying abortion and advocating the admission of active homosexuals to the priesthood.
In spring 1989 Weakland called on all archdiocesan schools to teach students how to use condoms as part of an AIDS education program. He also approved a graphic sex education program "Valuing your Sexuality" which teaches 6th-9th grade students, for example, that "There is no right and no wrong" when it comes to contraception, abortion or sex before marriage.
The Weakland liberal position on 'choice' drew praise from Detroit's auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton (who is scheduled to visit Australia this month), Catholics for a Free Choice, the pro-choice Sisters of Loretto Women's Network, Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Rights Action League. Bishop Gumbleton called it "a definite step in the right direction".
That Archbishop Weakland has not altered his moral thinking was evident in his critical reaction to a recent Vatican statement on homosexuality directed to the U.S. Bishops (London Tablet, 1 August 1992), issued in the context of 'gay' political pressures to gain full recognition for such things as homosexual 'marriages' and the adoption of children.
How many more of your Catholic diocese are being led by more Weakland's, how many Catholic schoolchildren and catechism classes are being taught by Weakland type supporters?
Could it be that as more Weakland's were allowed into the seminary, the potential Father Flanagan's dropped out or didn't apply? May we apply this to the military if 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' is repealed by Obama? What will we be left with?