VivirLatino

He HAD to say maricón. Otherwise people would start poking around in his closet. López has no doubt been to Rome and has interacted with scores of church clergy who are gay & lesbian. It's a smug old white man's smokescreen, and he's probably only fooling some devout viejitas and Catholic ostriches. Everyone else knows exactly what's going on in the church.
Out on the street, true Catholics don't give a shit what some member of the good old boys club in drag has to say. They're too busy dealing with life's realities, and one of those realities is that gay men and women are an intrinsic component of a Latino's social fabric.
I dare him to say something nasty about Walter Mercado. The same viejitas would bitch-slap the mitre off of his head.
My family always believed that the true soul of the church was in the privacy of the home. When clergy visited our home, they didn't often like what they saw, but they were terrified of doña Geña's temper and too respectful of my father's generosity, so they behaved. they had to sit at the same table as queens and break bread with Jews, and do it in peace.
So don't fret. Soon he'll die of a heart attack from too much easy living, and a new generation will take over and do things differently. That's what makes we Latinos interesting; we can't be pigeonholed.