Eve Tushnet
This is a well-crafted and very coherent essay, and therefore it was very hard to capture the essence of it is a 300-word excerpt. Please follow the link and read the whole thing, would you?
Class discuss.
(My verdict: it's excellent.)
Posted on 06/18/2014 12:16:25 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
When I became Catholic in 1998, as a college sophomore, I didn't know any other gay Christians. I'd been raised in a kind of pointillist Reform Judaism...
This sheltered upbringing may help explain my sunny undergraduate confidence that even though I knew of literally nobody else who had ever tried to be both unashamedly gay and obediently Catholic, I was totally going to do it. No problem, guys, I got this.
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[M]any Christian churches are beginning to integrate gay marriage into their theology... With so many more options for gay Christians, why [not] just de-pope myself?
It's that I fell in love with the Catholic Church....I didn't switch from atheistic post-Judaism to "belief in God," but to Catholicism: the Incarnation and the Crucifixion...her insistence that seemingly irreconcilable needs could both be met in God's overwhelming love: justice and mercy, reason and mystery, a savior who is fully God and also fully human. I didn't expect to understand every element of the faith. It is a lot bigger than I am.
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At the time of my baptism...I figured, everybody has to sacrifice something. God doesn't promise that He'll only ask you for the sacrifices you agree with and understand.
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Right now, the Biblical witness seems pretty clear. Both opposite-sex and same-sex love are used, in the Bible, as images of God's love. The opposite-sex love is found in marriage—sexually exclusive marriage, an image which recurs not only in the Song of Songs but in the prophets and in the New Testament—and the same-sex love is friendship. Both of these forms of love are considered real and beautiful; neither is better than the other. But they're not interchangeable.
Moreover, Genesis names sexual difference as the only difference which was present in Eden...
(Much more at link)
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
This is a well-crafted and very coherent essay, and therefore it was very hard to capture the essence of it is a 300-word excerpt. Please follow the link and read the whole thing, would you?
Class discuss.
(My verdict: it's excellent.)
What a great article. I can’t believe it was published in the quasi-MSM.
Your thoughts?
There are alcoholic, drug-abusing, adulterous, bigoted, kleptomaniac and prideful sinners who are Catholic, why not homosexual? Sin is sin.
“I figured, everybody has to sacrifice something. God doesn’t promise that He’ll only ask you for the sacrifices you agree with and understand.”
This used to be a common understanding among Christians. No longer.
Then it occurred to me that I fit right in with that crowd.
This is the exact type of person Pope Francis was referring to when he said “if they are seeking God, who am I to judge?”
Has this happened to anyone else?
I mean, my whole evening was spoiled. I was so embarrassed. Had I done something ugly to make people think that we were lesbians? I have been self-conscious about this ever since.
And it did not dispose me any better toward the gay agenda.
At least this guy gets it. We love our friends. There is nothing sexual about it.
Tagline.
“Then it occurred to me that I fit right in with that crowd.”
Love it. So true.
:: Right now, the Biblical witness seems pretty clear. .
Both opposite-sex and same-sex love are used, in the Bible, as images of God’s love. ::
Absolutely and completely wrong. As a matter of fact, damnably wrong...loss of salvation wrong.
What homosexuals engage in is best described as sodomy. God does not sodomize His creation and call it love.
Gay Christian? Is that not an oxymoronic use of words?
Trouble is that too many sinners have political correctness on their side and would rather drag the church down with them than take advantage of the hospital treatments offered.
I don’t care, and (checking.....) I still don’t care.
She is not justifying sodomy, she's saying why she's against sodomy. She does not at any point imply that sodomy could be part of Christian friendship!
She's chaste. Without evidence, you've judged her otheerwise. I hope you're properly abashed.
Now go back and read the article.
Not even close.
It's like being "a Christian and a dry alcoholic." You still have an appetite. You don't indulge in it anymore.
Why’d you waste the electrons?
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