Recently, Redeem Zumer put out a video called The Gay Jew Who Change Catholic Theology.

So in today's episode, I'll respond to some of his claims.

The overall thrust of his video seems to be that people like to say that Protestants,

especially RZ's denomination, the Presbyterian Church of the USA, have been captured by LGBT liberals.

RZ even raised a ruckus by proposing that PCUSA pastors promised to be in monogamous relationships,

which upset the Sparkle pastors in his denomination who support polyamory.

But RZ says that Catholicism also has elements that come from similar LGBT liberals,

and cites Gregory Baum as an example. Now,

RZ is basically correct about Baum being a Jewish convert who fled Europe during World War II

and also identified as having same-sex attraction since his early teen years. Baum converted during

college after reading Augustine's confessions, and a year later, he joined the Augustinian

order and became a priest. He served as a theological advisor for the ecumenical secretariat at the

Second Vatican Council, and composed an early draft of Nostra Atate, the document on the church and other

religions. So I think it's very interesting that one of the binding documents of Vatican

two was written by an LGBT activist,

and all Catholics have to give religious submission of intellect and will to that document.

Baum wasn't an LGBT activist when he wrote Nostratate in 1961, and there's no evidence

he was publicly contradicting church teaching before that point. He may not have even personally disagreed

with Catholic doctrine and sexuality when he wrote Nostra-tatte. In Baum's autobiography,

he says he began to disagree with Catholic teaching on sexuality sometime in the 1960s, and he did not

have relations with a man until 1963. His public dissent from church teaching

did not occur until after he left the priesthood in the 1970s. The fact that Baum left the church

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