Nov 28, 2006Articles: Bloc's priest with colourful past should win seat
By vanrozenheim
(Montreal, Canada) - Gravel, 53, is most often described as a "colourful priest," which is something of an understatement given his career path: from college student who left small-town Quebec for Montreal at 16, to male prostitute, to serving drinks in a leather bar in Montreal's Gay Village, to the seminary, to the pulpit. In a provocative 2005 interview with Fugues, a magazine that caters to Montreal's gay and lesbian community, Gravel said most priests don't respect their vows of celibacy, and added "50 per cent of priests in Quebec are gay. But if I became a priest it's because I have faith and I believe in the message of Christ."
