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Parish Priest Breaks the Silence, Shares that He is Gay
The National Catholic Reporter ^ | 12/18/17 | Gregory Greitan

Posted on 12/20/2017 5:50:52 PM PST by marshmallow

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To: bagster

> Some normal males are attracted to young girls.

Did you just call pedophiles normal?


81 posted on 12/21/2017 12:51:07 PM PST by JohnyBoy (The GOP Senate is intentionally trying to lose the majority.)
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To: bagster

Homosexuality is not a sin. Lusting, Adultery and Fornication are sins. Attractions are not sins.


82 posted on 12/21/2017 12:52:13 PM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: JohnyBoy

It is sometimes difficult to tell a 15 year-old from a 20 year-old.


83 posted on 12/21/2017 12:53:04 PM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: JohnyBoy

Honestly I’ve had heart to hearts with gay guys I’ve known, even very well. They will true confess stuff worse than finding children attractive, and yet they don’t. I mean all children are beautiful, but just because some one is gay does not mean they are sexually attracted to children. If you aren’t attracted to 8 year old girls, then a man attracted to men isn’t attracted to a little boy.


84 posted on 12/21/2017 12:56:27 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: bagster
"Just as a goat born with two heads is not normal. "

Muslim porn.

85 posted on 12/21/2017 12:56:32 PM PST by bar sin·is·ter (Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
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To: Flaming Conservative
that is a defect that can be fixed,

Whether the defect can be "fixed" is not the point.

The point is that if a hermaphrodite is possible and you agree that it is a birth defect, then it is also possible that birth defects can take the form of the common homosexual. Let me ask you this. If somebody is attracted to a member of his own sex but never acts on that attraction, is he/she still a homosexual?

Of course he is. And he is still a birth defect.

Nowhere does Scripture say that being born with a defect is an abomination. It DOES, however, call homosexuality so. If birth defects were considered to be abominations, Scripture would say so.

Abomination is used in the Bible to describe things that are offensive or opposing to the things of God.

Both nature and God agree on this. Homosexuality opposes both the things of God AND the things of nature. Where we disagree is you say, apparently, that homosexuals are born normal and at some point in their life, choose to become homosexual. I say the burden of proof is on you.

Another definition of "abomination" is "a thing that causes disgust or hatred."

I say that considering homosexuality both a birth defect and an abomination is completely natural. Disgust and hatred is natures way of casting out and discouraging a thing and is completely warranted toward something that is harmful to the health of the tribe.

We may agree to disagree as long as we agree that I am right.

86 posted on 12/21/2017 1:07:50 PM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: JohnyBoy
Did you just call pedophiles normal?

I was going to use the term "heterosexual" I like to call heterosexuality normalcy. Of course attraction to children is not normal in the other sense of the word.

Simmer down.

87 posted on 12/21/2017 1:10:34 PM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: bagster

We may agree to disagree as long as we agree that I am right.

Uh, no. I’ll never agree that you’re right.


88 posted on 12/21/2017 1:13:18 PM PST by Flaming Conservative
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To: Flaming Conservative
Uh, no. I’ll never agree that you’re right.

Then I will not "agree to disagree."

I never quite understood that turn of phrase, anyway. I consider it a cop out. I prefer a man stands by his argument until he is proven wrong. And that an honorable man admits when he is wrong.

Nothing personal, mind you.

89 posted on 12/21/2017 1:18:26 PM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: Yaelle
I mean all children are beautiful

You must have missed the Clinton White House years.

I still have nightmares about Chelsea Clinton hiding under my bed.

90 posted on 12/21/2017 1:25:55 PM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: marshmallow

Understand that in this day, when someone says that they are “gay,” that means that they embrace it and act upon it.


91 posted on 12/21/2017 2:49:12 PM PST by fwdude (Why is it that the only positive things to come out of LGBT organizations are their AIDS tests?)
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To: marshmallow

“...I recall the personal struggles of the prophet Jeremiah who desperately wanted to keep the Word of God to himself because it provoked such a negative response from those who heard his preaching. No matter how much he did not want to speak in the name of the Lord anymore, he could not hold it in. ‘There is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot’ (Jeremiah 20:9). Jeremiah understands the anguish of preaching; however, keeping silent and not speaking the truth comes with an even greater cost. What a trap!

“Today, I break the silence and emerge free from the shackles of shame placed upon me at a young age....”

It’s absolute blasphemy to elevate his “coming out” as a sodomite to the same level as Jeremiah’s prophetic word from the Lord. There is a very hot place in hell for such deviants as this.


92 posted on 12/21/2017 2:53:25 PM PST by fwdude (Why is it that the only positive things to come out of LGBT organizations are their AIDS tests?)
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To: bagster

Ha Ha Ha
Better check under the bed tonight to be sure. What a way to wake up.


93 posted on 12/22/2017 2:24:12 PM PST by Yaelle
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