Far-Right Catholic “Ex-Gay” Leader Says It’s “Nobody’s Business” Why He Was Ousted On “Morality Violations”

The Associated Press reports:

The founder of a far-right, unofficial Catholic media group has resigned for an unspecified violation of the organization’s morality clause, the group said in a statement Tuesday. Michael Voris stepped down as president of St. Michael’s Media and Church Militant, a Michigan-based enterprise established to address what Voris’ official biography calls “the serious erosion of the Catholic faith in the last 50 years.”

Voris declined to specify what happened in a repetitive, nearly 14-minute video statement on X. “There are things I have to go away and address and work on, horrible, ugly things,” he said. “Not going to share them, nobody else’s business but mine. The consequences of me not dealing with those obviously are some people’s business. I need to conquer these demons,” he said, adding that they are “like spiritual terror” to him.

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Voris, of course, has made the personal lives of millions of LGBTQ Americans his business for many years.

Per the AP, in 2021 Voris was banned from holding a rally outside US Conference of Catholic Bishops because he had “exalted and promoted” the attack on the US Capitol. A federal appeals court ultimately overturned that decision by the city of Baltimore.

My yesterday report on his ouster and how I learned in 2010 that he has a past in the gay leather scence is here.

Supporters and critics of Voris have flooded Twitter in the last day to argue about his ouster, with detractors calling for him to face the same “politics of destruction” that they say he has launched against his perceived enemies.

Some appear to be crediting notorious anti-LGBTQ activist Jesse Lee Peterson with Voris’ ouster. You may recall that last year two of Peterson’s male associates went on the record to say they’d had sex with him.