Posted on 04/19/2015 8:30:14 AM PDT by NetAddicted
In a five-part series released the week of March 16th from the National Catholic Reporter, God’s Community in the Castro, a parishioner from San Francisco’s Most Holy Redeemer parish had this to say about his spiritual home: “We don’t see ourselves as a gay community, but rather as a community that’s open to gays…It’s an acceptance and a realization that people feel OK to be who they are that makes this place different.”
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“I’ve never understood how it is, that the priests molesting boys and young men never became a bad reflection on the homosexual community.”
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Same here. I have wondered about this very fact: that homos have infiltrated the Church.
Without God, why shouldn’t we be content to just be sinners?
I know God created everything but did he have to make so much pollen? Achoooo!
funny. if you must ‘accept people as they are’ ... can you claim they’ve sinned?
would any behavior be sinful?
Serious question from a non-Catholic. IF a homosexual is gay BUT adheres to the conditions of the priesthood, is that OK? Not trolling here.
Yes, man had been made in the image and likeness of God,,,,,knowing good from evil. Now we have a person who has taken the perverse attributes of homosexuality and transferred them to explain God. Yet we have the selective exclusion of the story of Sodom and Gomorah. The author selectively excludes Romans 1:20 (and following) to make a flimsy excuse of his case. He might just as well have said, Man are sinners and deserve hell and that is exactly where God deserves to spend eternity. I shutter at the indiscriminate perversion of the scripture to excuse ones offenses against a Holy God. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands. God is angry with the wicked every day. Your and I will deal with His terms, not ours.
Well, the answer is yes and no. Because in a secular society, morality is fluid - like the seasons. What may be deemed "right" is merely the prevailing whim of the majority - or a hand-picked judge.
And the following season we change our mind - again...
I’m not “Catholic” per se, but IMO not acting on impulses to commit sinful acts - gay or otherwise - is the daily life of a believer (along with of course, failing, repenting, and asking forgiveness).
You might be interested in this “gay” Catholics journey to chastity:
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3650#.UWB7zEpxboY
To the woman caught in the act of adultery, Jesus didn’t say, neither do I condemn you. Keep on doing what you’re doing and you’ll be fine. God made you that way and you can’t really help yourself. This Christian life is one or recognition of our sin and humbly repenting. It’s not about justifying our sin before a holy God.
Or condemning God because He doesn't "get" us. Or because He made the rules too rigid. Or because He's not hip enough to keep up with the times.
Or because we're just too feeble to fathom His mind.
It’s an acceptance and a realization that people feel OK to be who they are that makes this place different.”
So if their difference is pedophilia? serial rapist? chronic herion user? racists?
I do not accept people that feel okay being a child abuser. Rapist. Etc Etc........
You can accept a person as a human being without accepting their crimes or their sins........
Good point.
“Feel better? Why would you feel the need to “keep up?” Unless you are Catholic, of course.”
Open thread. Obviously posted for more than just Catholics to comment upon. I did.
If open threads trouble you, there are caucus threads where you can participate.
Good question.
Oh, one thing: him claiming he’s G-d-created, or born that way. I think he’s already not adhering to Catholicism & the Bible.
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