Posted on 01/25/2017 6:26:30 PM PST by marshmallow
"Principles they laid out are transferable to LGBT Catholics"
VALLETTA, Malta (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pro-gay New Ways Ministry is arguing that both Malta's bishops and their new guidelines, which admit sexually active divorced people to Holy Communion, are gay-friendly.
New Ways Ministry — a group that has been condemnedy by the Vatican as well as by the U.S. Bishops for its dissent on Church teaching on homosexuality — makes the case that Malta's guidelines, which are an attempt to implement the papal exhortation Amoris Laetitia (AL), logically extend to gay couples.
A recent article appearing on the gay group's blog January 23 contends, "Maltese bishops Charles Scicluna and Mario Grech primarily addressed the situation of Catholics who are divorced and civilly remarried. Yet the principles they laid out are transferable to LGBT Catholics and their loved ones, too."
(Excerpt) Read more at churchmilitant.com ...
And so it begins. Cardinal Pell called this one at the first synod. The communion-for-the-divorced-and-remarried thing was the stalking horse for a sweeping abolition of Church teaching on sexual morality. Kyrie eleison.
He is correct the Church is no one’s conscience.
However if one decides to live as a homosexual that person has decided to reject Christ.
If one rejects Christ the Church has no choice but to exclude that person from the body of the church.
This was the main intention of the synods and AL from the beginning.
It is not possible to be flatly unrepentant and be a Christian.
Homosexuals in particular are often involved in an odd phenomenon whereby they build their entire sense of self, their identity, around being homosexual. Most other sins don’t seem to become so completely associated with their identity, remaining just things folks do rather than a foundation of their whole sense of self.
Because of this for such a person to repent means them turning their back on who they believe themselves to fundamentally be.
Realize that this is a question of fundamental identity.
In Christ a Christian is a new creature. Our fundamental identity is “Christian” and that fact about us will eventually push aside all other competing facts. The Holy Spirit simply will not share. This is demonstrated to the fullest degree in the resurrection BUT it is going on now.
But if a person’s ultimate sense of self is instead “homosexual” and that identity demands that all other things are submitted to it, subordinate to it, then they cannot be Christians while the spiritual stronghold “homosexual” remains in place.
That doesn’t mean that a homosexual cannot repent, God can get camels thru the eyes of needles after all.
This is why Romans 1:18-32 seems to me to be so utterly accurate. The process that gets people turned over to reprobate minds does not start with homosexuality nor does it end with homosexuality ... homosexuality being instead somewhat like a proverbial dying canary in a coal mine ... but the passage speaks to the existence of a spiritual stronghold centered around homosexuality and it is this stronghold we see the evidence of way too often these days (not just in homosexuals, incidentally, but in those who champion the normality of the sin even though they may not personally trade in it).
Gen 3:5 5
KJV
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