[eastsider]

Believe it or not, there is one such approved ministry -- Courage. The guy who cuts my hair (I know, I know : ) belongs to it, and we had a long talk about it yesterday. He told me that as a result of the current crisis, all the references to Courage meetings in the weekly bulletins of the parishes that sponsor Courage have disappeared over the past month. This is a distressing time for all Catholics, but especially so for them.

Seeing as these Catholics are making a real (and very un-pc) effort to conform themselves to orthodox Catholic teachings, I think we should at least find out whether the "Retreat for Gay and Lesbian Catholics" is related to Courage before we FReep them. JMO.

[Arthur McGowan]

I can tell you that it isn't. Courage folks do not use the terms "gay" or "lesbian." In Courage-terminology, they are people with SSA (Same-Sex Attraction). Those who Practice or Promote the Homosexual Agenda are called PPHA.

Any "Catholic" ministry to homosexual persons which uses the terms "gay" or "lesbian" is ipso facto suspect. Those terms, in and of themselves, denote promotion of the Gay Liberation agenda.

[Notwithstanding]

COURAGE is truly Catholic and does not refer to people with homosexual attractions by the popular categories of "gay" and "lesbian" because those words are celbratory and prideful. No truly Catholic person would ever be proud of having such attractions. Attractions to sinful behavior are nothing to be proud about. We all have a tendency to sin, but it something we rightly loathe, rather than taking pride in it.