Posted on 07/19/2011 5:26:40 AM PDT by NYer
Ping!
“Gay Catholic” ... talk about an oxymoron.
“I know this isn’t a satisfactory answer.”
On the contrary: it’s the finest example of doing what God requires, rather than what one wants, that I’ve read in years. My prayer is that this man will resist the temptation to “accept who he is” and will fight, with God’s help, to free himself from this bondage.
An inspiring message.
Colonel, USAFR
Steve Gershom is just yet another infiltrator into the Roman Catholic church to ‘recruit’ young teen men from us ‘breeders’.
These folks who are gay Catholics ALWAYS, somehow, end up as a youth minister.
I’ve seen it.
He is a celibate gay man, and that makes him a true Catholic.
His is a difficult path and he believes in the Church and is doing his best to live by the Church.
He is not demanding to be a practicing homosexual AND Catholic. That would be oxymoronic.
His is a statement of faith in the Church and God, not in homosexuality.
He should be celebrated for his strength of faith and conviction.
I’m sorry, was that crack meant to be some kind of pejorative?
Do you really believe a person cannot be a Catholic and gay?
Do you believe a person can be homosexual, but not act on it?
Do you believe in that totally ridiculous idea that people choose to be homosexual? That is to say they are not born homosexual.
it took a whole 5 posts to get the first catholic basher in.....
Somebody pushed your queer button?
So, you can say with certainty that you have the gift of identifying everyone who is gay?
Further, in your vast experience, you can say with certainty that every homosexual person does evil things?
Finally, it makes perfect sense to you to condemn all homosexual people for the crimes of a small percent of that population and not do the same for hetero population?
FYI I’m not gay. But I try very hard to form judgements about people based on their individual behavior—not group stereotypes.
Being an Alcoholic can be part of our fallen nature
— Drinking our self silly is wrong
Being Homosexual can be part of our fallen nature
— Men having sex with men is wrong
Our natures are corrupt and fallen
— We must surrender our natures to Christ
straight people don’t arrive at the church door touting that they are ‘straight’!
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he tells his friends, and his Priest.
he is NOT committing homosexual acts.
he is bearing the cross he was born with.
and if he takes some pride in resisting sin successfully,
i still applaud him.
i’m far from sinless myself. this story was inspiring.
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2. The woman spoke at one of the universities in Pittsburgh during Lent. I missed her talk because I had to work, but she’s suffered much persecution at the hands of the gay mafia.
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Here is someone who recognizes the truth of the Bible and believes his relationship with God is more important than his sexual urges. I wish more people, both gay and straight, had the same amount of moral clarity that this man has. I applaud him I also pray that God will deliver him from his un-Godly urges, and will allow him to find happiness and fulfillment in a heterosexual relationship. Barring that, I pray that God gives him peace and strength in his celibate lifestyle.
Ping!
Actually, it's impossible to be gay and Catholic, you can be one or the other, but not both.
My parents are happy Catholics.
On a serious note, I prefer the title “A Catholic who has homosexual tendencies”, but would not have been as gripping a headline.
He is fighting the good fight, we all have different areas of life that we have more of a sin problem in than others, for many it may be business and money, for others sex, but this guy is meeting his head on, and fighting the fight.
Respectfully, dfwgator, gay is a misused word, especially by the pro-homosexual crowd. He’d have been more accurate to have called himself a Catholic suffering from same-sex attraction. It’s good to read things such as this thread, though. He is, at this point, doing the right thing. And we are, as a fellow freeper said recently, to love the sinner and hate the sin. If this man suffers from same-sex attraction, and maintains celibacy, that is entirely different from him indulging is homosexual acts. I find it commendable for him to fight these urges, and to bear his cross.
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