Andrés García Torres, Spanish Priest, Seeks To Prove He's Not Gay (VIDEO)

Andrés García Torres was "separated" from his Catholic parish after a photo surfaced of him shirtless with his arm around another man, and now the priest is offering to go to extreme measures to prove he's not gay, according to a report from Spain's Antena 3 and El Pais.

"I have told them that they should do the test to measure my anus to see whether it is dilated," the priest says in the video, according to a HuffPost translation.

Torres, who's 46, was a priest in Fuenlabrada, a city about 15 miles south of Madrid.

The reporter in the video says that the church has removed Torres for "pastoral" reasons, although Torres says the church has evidence that says proves he's gay, including web postings of him soliciting himself to other men.

The photo in question, which you can see in the video below, shows Torres shirtless with a 28-year-old Cuban seminary student, according to El Pais.

"I have a normal friendship with this boy," Torres says in the video, according to a HuffPost translation. "There is nothing. This was the only day I’ve been with him. And we took a photo of ourselves with no shirts, and that is what started all this."

El Pais also reports that the diocese has ordered Torres to get tested for HIV and to undergo psychiatric treatment.

Torres says in the video that he's going to go to appeal the decision to authorities in Rome. "What Rome decides, then that is what I'll accept."

According to El Pais, a letter of support for the priest has garnered over 3,000 signatures.

WATCH: (Video In Spanish)

Originally found on Gunabee via Buzzfeed. For more about this story in English, read the reports at Typically Spanish and FreeThinker.com.

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Comments

[VeronicaLeeAn]

12:53 AM on 07/23/2011

yeah, because gay men only GET sex....helloooo. he could be a top and mainly give. either way... gosh.

[Sandra Stipp]

03:33 PM on 07/20/2011

Priests being celibate is a man made rule not Gods rule. Let the priests marry or have their gay sex. The Catholic church all to stop all this nonsense.

[StopMakingSense2]

11:30 AM on 07/20/2011

Just molest a nun and call it good.. At least the alter boys get a break this time!

[cobraxus]

10:42 AM on 07/20/2011

he tried to pray the gay away in latin but must have mistranslated it...or something.

[Lanny Clifford]

08:56 AM on 07/20/2011

Talking about going to extremes to prove he's not gay.
Why not just video himself with some beautiful call girls so he'll be the envy of the town?

[Cye]

08:49 AM on 07/20/2011

I don't know what's more absurd and outrageous: this priest trying to pretend he's not gay in the face of all the evidence, or the church's demand that he test for HIV and see a psychiatrist for, essentially, being gay.

Messed up.

[IrieMoon]

08:36 AM on 07/20/2011

Catholic priests cannot be married or have relationships so why does it matter if he's gay or not? It's not as if he's allowed to have sex.

[cobraxus]

10:41 AM on 07/20/2011

absolutely.he's supposed to be celibate.

[IrieMoon]

11:04 AM on 07/20/2011

Being gay does not mean he has had sex.
It just means he's attracted to the same gender.

[IfIonlyknew]

09:13 PM on 07/19/2011

What's he going to do.....Sleep with a man and not have sex.

[Aquest]

09:11 PM on 07/19/2011

He may want to check out this website:

http://www.divine-interventions.com

[Aquest]

09:01 PM on 07/19/2011

A new standard for the workplace testing of priests - drug and anus testing.

[norepublicanleftbehind]

04:38 PM on 07/19/2011

OMG-what have come to?

[Nirbija Samadhi]

03:44 PM on 07/19/2011

Andres had better take that dilation test quickly; because with 3000 (signature) people behind him, he's bound to fail the dilation test when they are done with his behind. lol

[BabaLou7]

12:01 PM on 07/19/2011

Santorum does not have to be present for homosexual contact to have occurred.

[cdecisneros]

11:25 AM on 07/19/2011

To prove he is straight he would have to have sex with a woman and that would break his vow of Celibacy. Or can he look at porn and get hard. See, here is proof. Look at my buldge.

[Demetrios423]

11:16 AM on 07/19/2011

The Church and everyone else should take him for his word. By forcing him to keep answering the question is no different bullying a college student to admit he/she is gay. He should also stop taking and posting pictures like that if he doesn't want to be questioned about his sexuality.

[ELijoi]

04:21 PM on 07/19/2011

There's a huge difference. This man supports an industry that oppresses gay people and spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year to prevent them from having rights. He should be exposed and hopefully expelled. And if he offs himself, good riddance to the pathetic hypocrite.

[Demetrios423]

05:50 PM on 07/19/2011

Again, the left/ liberals are full of hate. Sad.