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To: jboot

If he claimed that God "creates" sin, that's heresy.

However, I believe that he claimed God made HIM. That's NOT a heresy. Using the Thomistic term, an "accidental" quality of the Bishop is that he is a queer.


105 posted on 04/14/2005 2:04:11 PM PDT by ninenot (Minister of Membership, TomasTorquemadaGentlemen'sClub)
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To: ninenot
'If he claimed that God "creates" sin, that's heresy.'

Let's look at his statement again, shall we.

'I am a Roman Catholic priest in good standing, and celibate. I did not choose to be so, but in God’s infinite love and mercy I was created a gay man.'

He makes two claims:

1. He did not choose to be homosexual.

2. He was created a homosexual.

Scripture repeatedly affirms that homosexuality is a grave sin. Paul describes homosexuality as "[men] inflamed with passion for one another", not as a physical act. Therefore the issue of celibacy is moot. The priest in question claims that he never made a decision to embrace these passions, but that they were deliberately created in him by God in an act of divine mercy and love. He appears to be stopping just a whisker short of describing his gayness as a gift from God

Sounds like a heretic to me.

112 posted on 04/14/2005 3:51:21 PM PDT by jboot (Faith is not a work)
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