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To: freeangel
Think again...
http://www.dioceseofcleveland.org/gayandlesbianfamilyministry/

My sister claims she is so Marian, and is living with her lesbian lover. She even claims to have found a Catholic priest to marry them. In Cleveland.
18 posted on 08/29/2003 1:27:49 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Hand me my smelling salts.)
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To: netmilsmom
so "heretical" maybe another term ... i went to the link, here is what the link to "Catholic teaching" had to say:



Chastity and homosexuality
2357. 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.

2358. The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively dirordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.

2359. Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.



39 posted on 08/29/2003 1:53:54 PM PDT by WOSG
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To: netmilsmom
We need to pray for the people of Cleveland and FReep the Bishops about their teaching (and website) that is UNorthodox.
69 posted on 08/29/2003 3:04:10 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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