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To: kosta50

"The Church will not ask, but if someone comes out of the closet, he is out."

Well, not exactly. If he makes it to ordination - even if he has to lie, deceive, or is in-correctly guided, then there is no "outing" either physically, or by sexual orientation once he is a priest.

And currently there are no canonical penalties or consequences for being a homosexual priest or bishop. They can (and they have already) reach (reached) levels of absolute power and control in the hierarchy.

The instruction is a significant step, a necessary one, but it is just one step of several that need to be made.


13 posted on 11/24/2005 2:23:25 PM PST by Lord let me see
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To: Lord let me see
Well, not exactly. If he makes it to ordination - even if he has to lie, deceive, or is in-correctly guided, then there is no "outing" either physically, or by sexual orientation once he is a priest

Something is seriously amiss then. Obtaining holy orders on a lie is like conscrating the Eucharist without believing in the Real Presence: both are spiritually void of any validity.

19 posted on 11/24/2005 9:09:55 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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