Are we too critical of homosexuals?

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QwertyGirl said:
I was at the grocery store recently, and the checker mentioned to me that her husband had the flu. Had she been gay and mentioned that her wife had the flu, what’s the difference? You would actually assume some kind of malicious intent?
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I see a difference between “my husband had the flu.” And “I am married to my homosexual partner.”
 
vz71 said:
I see a difference between “my husband had the flu.” And “I am married to my homosexual partner.”
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Conversation A

“Hi, what’s your name?”
“John, and just before you ask anything else, I just want to say…I am married to a man…ok go ahead”

Conversation B

“Hi, sorry I had the flu that’s why my voice is bad, what’s your name?”
“John, oh sorry to hear you had the flu, my husband just recovered from the flu, it was bad”
 
phil19034 said:
I think the reason it SEEMS like we are too critical of homosexuals is honestly because not enough bishops/priests/deacons preach about mortal sin.

In the realm of the Sixth Commandment, people need to reminded that the following cannot receive communion:
  • Fornicators
  • Masturbators
  • sexually active homosexuals
  • active birth control users
  • adulterers (including divorced and remarried without an annulment - unless they refrain from sex)
  • couples married outside the Church (which is a type of fornication)
  • Married couples engaging in unchaste sexual behavior.
  • etc.
However, I will concede that we honestly really do need more homilies against Birth Control & Fornication than homosexual acts.
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THANK YOU! 😊😇

The voice of truth and sanity. This is so welcome, and so needed.
 
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Lea101 said:
She’s saying if a woman said ‘my wife has a flu’.
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Really? That is not what I read.
I read this…
Tommy999 said:
I don’t appreciate is when a homosexual feels like they have to tell others of their sexual orientation even if the other person doesn’t know, care, or ask them. For example, I knew a lady who is a lesbian who out of the blue tells me she has a “wife”.
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I do not recall seeing anything concerning the flu.
But it does rhyme with ‘out of the blue’. So perhaps that is where the signals got crossed.
 
I’m always nervous to really critique the sins of any person-homosexual or not- just because I struggle with so many of my own. I’ve noticed, just me personally, the that more I focus on your sins, the less I have time to work on my own.
 
We need a balance of compassion and conversion. Remember Jesus with the prostitute. He had perfect balance of compassion (“he without sin cast first some”, “nobody here condemns you nor do I condemn you”) and conversion (“go and sin no more”). Today’s culture is all compassion, no conversion. In past cultures it was all conversion, no compassion. Best is the perfect balance Christ modeled for us.
 
vz71 said:
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QwertyGirl:
I was at the grocery store recently, and the checker mentioned to me that her husband had the flu. Had she been gay and mentioned that her wife had the flu, what’s the difference? You would actually assume some kind of malicious intent?
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I see a difference between “my husband had the flu.” And “I am married to my homosexual partner.”
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I’m not going to say it has never happened, but I can’t imagine someone just saying out of the blue, “I am married to my homosexual partner.” More likely, a gay man would say something like, “My husband Richard has the flu,” or “My husband Richard and I went to a really good pizza place last night.” And most gay men wouldn’t refer to their partner or husband as “my homosexual partner.” Most of them wouldn’t refer to themselves or their significant other with the term “homosexual” which is a term found mainly in medical or psychological literature. I also can’t imagine a man calling his wife or girlfriend “my heterosexual partner.”
 
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Thorolfr said:
I’m not going to say it has never happened, but
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Indeed.
Seems apparent to me that very few here have ever bore witness to a ‘gay pride’ event.
From what I witnessed, it seemed the whole thing was about making an exhibition and trying to provoke anger.

I would not say it isn’t possible that it is simply a passing remark and doesn’t mean anything, but without knowing what was said any more than ‘out of the blue’ I would consider it likely they are not just making a passing remark.
 
Thorolfr said:
I’m not going to say it has never happened, but I can’t imagine someone just saying out of the blue, “I am married to my homosexual partner.” More likely, a gay man would say something like, “My husband Richard has the flu,” or “My husband Richard and I went to a really good pizza place last night.” And most gay men wouldn’t refer to their partner or husband as “my homosexual partner.” Most of them wouldn’t refer to themselves or their significant other with the term “homosexual” which is a term found mainly in medical or psychological literature. I also can’t imagine a man calling his wife or girlfriend “my heterosexual partner
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Those who know gay people know that this is correct.
 
After reading this entire thread, and the having been a member for a good while and read a multitude of the same type of thread, I can honestly say
No, “we” are not too critical of homosexuals.

However, in general the sin of homosexuality is too often elevated above the many other sins that are abominable to God.

It is as if this sin has its own “special” distinction.
 
vz71 said:
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Thorolfr:
I’m not going to say it has never happened, but
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Indeed.
Seems apparent to me that very few here have ever bore witness to a ‘gay pride’ event.
From what I witnessed, it seemed the whole thing was about making an exhibition and trying to provoke anger.
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Not everyone goes to a pride parade or event for the same reasons. But I think that most gay men I know go to have a good time and be with other people like themselves. I know for me, when I went to my first pride parade in San Francisco in 1982 at the age of 21, it was a powerful and moving experience to go from the isolated rural area where I lived and didn’t know a single other gay person to a place where there were thousands of other people like myself. For a day, I could feel good about myself and not feel so alone. Things aren’t as difficult for LGBT people now as what they used to be, but pride parades are still important for many of them.
 
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Wasn’t referring to that post, but to the example of ‘my husband has a flu’ by another poster in response to you.
 
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Lea101 said:
Wasn’t referring to that post, but to the example of ‘my husband has a flu’ by another poster in response to you.
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Ok, but that is not what I was talking about.

The simple fact is that an introduction “out of the blue” concerning a “marriage” may not be altruistic.
 
vz71 said:
The simple fact is that an introduction “out of the blue” concerning a “marriage” may not be altruistic.
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It may or it may not be, but are we really in a position to judge someone else’s intentions?
 
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