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[frogjerk]

(Editor’s Note: For the complete text of the bishop’s speech, see related story in today’s edition, “It is sinful.”)

When two Catholics from Southern California learned that Sacramento Coadjutor Bishop Jaime Soto was to be the keynote speaker at the National Association of Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries conference in Long Beach on Sept. 18, they decided to attend themselves to see and hear the talk in person. They say what they witnessed was a bishop who “courageously but gently” gave a clear presentation of Church teaching on sexuality.

After California Catholic Daily reported on Bishop Soto’s plans to attend and speak at the conference (“Birds of a feather?” Sept. 15, 2008), many readers expressed disapproval or worry over how to interpret the soon-to-be Bishop of Sacramento’s decision. Bishop Soto will take over the diocese from retiring Bishop William Weigand on Nov. 30. The National Association of Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries, based in Berkeley, is a network of local ministries that has the reputation of taking, at best, an ambiguous stance on the moral character of homosexuality and homosexual acts.

But there was noting ambiguous about Bishop Soto’s remarks to the group. “Sexual relations between people of the same sex can be alluring for homosexuals, but it deviates from the true meaning of the act and distracts them from the true nature of love to which God has called us all,” Bishop Soto said. “For this reason, it is sinful. Married love is a beautiful, heroic expression of faithful, life-giving, life-creating love. It should not be accommodated and manipulated for those who would believe that they can and have a right to mimic its unique expression."

At least five members of the audience walked out during the bishop’s address. When he finished speaking, there

[frogjerk]

Thanks Bishop Soto!

[Unam Sanctam]

God bless this good shepherd. I hope he also is a patron of Courage. These diocesan “gay and lesbian ministries” do not teach or encourage Catholic teaching or morality and have to go.

[wk4bush2004]

God bless you, Bishop Soto, for having the courage to speak out against something that clearly contradicts the Word of God.

I am so amazed that people who call themselves Christians could support homosexuality and gay marriage. Have they ever read their Bibles?

I really hope and pray that the Bible-believing Christians in California will get out to vote in droves on November 4th, to amend the state constitution and define marriage as between one man and one woman.

[JSDude1]

All sex hetero and homosexual outside of man-woman marriage is sinful (according to God’s Hold Word). That being said We are ALL sinners “All have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God, and ~NEED~ Christ for God to recognize us as His Children)!

[OldTCS]

Wow! I’m impressed. Something like this is easy to do in front of a receptive group, but in the “lion’s den?”

[Salvation]

 

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Body:	7 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved