[longtermmemmory]

"Being homosexual means you can't be a priest"


"Yes, I can understand if he were a practicing homosexual. ..."


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Hogwash. This is the weak leftist psychobable. Homosexual behavior is learned. Your pop-psychology falls into the homosexual propaganda. This is the same wrong thinking that removed homosexual conduct as an illness in the DSM-III and pedophilia from phychological disorders in DSM-IV. (at least until internal uproar cause the revision to uncerimoniously put in back in DSM-IV-RV).

There is ZERO hard science to support your "tendencies" argument. The nature vs nurture argument has been adressed in other threads in FR.

No homosexual priests. period. No maried priests period. No convicted child molesters. period.

[ejo]

Priest, etc,etc,etc,

Then what have we left?Somewhere, somehow some compassion has to be exercised. What would Jesus do? When he Himself sat with the sinners and the so-called intelligansia of that era riduculed Him for just doing what a lot of us are doing at this moment. I am not defending the militant homosexual, they will have to answer to the Almighty when their time comes. But I'm addressing that small percentage, why not extend that bit of compassion and not bitterness as they struggle to be chaste in their calling. You may think of me as naive when it comes to homosexuality, BUT I am trying to walk in their shoes for the moment and to experience their pain in their personal struggles. At this time prayer would help immensely instead of beratement to these lost souls.