[NYer]

I am not proud of the life I have lived. In fact, I am profoundly ashamed of it. But if reading this prevents one naïve, gullible man from making the same mistakes, then perhaps with the assistance of Our Lady of Guadalupe; of St. Joseph, her chaste spouse; of my patron saint, Edmund Campion; of St. Josemaría Escrivá; of the blessed Carmelite martyrs of Compiégne; and, last but not least, of my special supernatural guide and mentor, the Venerable John Henry Newman, I can at least hope for a reprieve from some of the many centuries in Purgatory I have coming to me.

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[Bahbah]

This is a great article. Thanks.

[arthurus]

A friend of mine of more than 40 years "came out" as a teenager and thought he was having a ball and I suppose he was for a few years. He moved out to LA and sold mens' clothing and learned about antiques and, yes, decorating. He had many permanent committed relationships, some lasting more than a month. When he came back to Florida for awhile in the 80s he was grim and did not speak much though he had been raucous and voluble as a youth.

A few years later Dom returned again for good. He had resolved to be celibate the rest of his life. He had utterly wearied of the crazy life and found there was no other available to him in that milieu. He had seen too many die of AIDS or lose their health to multible other diseases; too many suicides. He told me everybody over 30 knows one person who has killed himself. Dom knew nine. He had been raised as an atheist rationalist so he had no church to come back to. He is not pathetic as he has developed a social life of sorts. His friends are mostly women though he says he could never imagine going to bed with ne of them- it would be like homosexual or something. He shuns homosexual men and doesn't trust lesbians.He feels he wasted his life but at least doesn't think he has to ride that particular beast all the way into the ground.

[DirtyHarryY2K]

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[Aquinasfan]

Great essay. It must have taken a lot of courage for this man to speak out.

This is how it works. McNeill reinterprets the story of Sodom, claiming that it does not condemn homosexuality, but gang rape. Orthodox theologians respond, in a commendable but naïve attempt to rebut him, naïve because these theologians presume that McNeill believes his own arguments, and is writing as a scholar, not as a propagandist. McNeill ignores the arguments of his critics, dismissing their objections as based on homophobia, and repeats his original position. The orthodox respond again as if they were really dealing with a theologian. And back and forth for a few more rounds. Until finally McNeill or someone like him stands up and announces, "You know, this is getting us nowhere. We have our exegesis and our theology. You have yours. Why can't we just agree to disagree?" That sounds so reasonable, so ecumenical. And if the orthodox buy into it, they have lost, because the gay rights apologists have earned a place at the table from which they will never be dislodged. Getting at the truth about Sodom and Gomorrah, or correctly parsing the sexual ethics of St. Thomas, was never really the issue. Winning admittance to Holy Communion was the issue.

Forewarned is forearmed.

[Thorin]

Thanks for posting.

[Feldkurat_Katz]

FYI. Powerful.

[goodform]

Does anyone have any ideas on how to conduct oneself at a company "diversity" "training" session? I've been through one of these before, and it was very pro-homosexual. I wish I could say that I was a hero and spoke up, but like everyone else there, I didn't. :-(

I suspect that the time will come when I will be faced with this again, and I'm wondering if anyone else out there has had experience with speaking up at one of these things and how they did it, and what was the outcome? Did they get canned, or black-balled?