As a gay (SSA) Catholic, I'm exhausted

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That gentleman has a part of his site which claims that gay marriage “causes AIDS.” That is hardly a helpful thing to post. It’s quite frankly something I’d expect from an evangelical Protestant in the American South, the place where I was born and raised.
 
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Gab123 said:
The self-labeling of ”gay” or “trans” etc, only puts a person inside a psychological box. In reality, there are only two journeys a man can take in life; the first is the journey we personally take to become the person we become by following our own impulses and passions. The other journey is the way of the cross; a journey that scourges, crushes and crucifies the old self.
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Beautifully said. I honestly don’t understand why gay people need to make being gay a badge of identity. A gay man is a man, period. A gay man or woman is called to live a celibate life, just as any non-married person. So what if they have SSA? What does it have to do with being a man, and being a disciple of Christ? Many of us are celibate for the kingdom of God, for one reason or another. Look around you at the many people quietly practicing this self sacrifice, and don’t buy into the current politically correct trend of identify politics. It has disastrous results.
 
The problem is that many do not want to hear the truth, because sometimes the truth hurts. But it is the truth that sets one free, thus Jesus said ”I Am the Truth”.
As for the website, here is a good article by Joseph Scambria’s site titled

“No one is born gay”

Since I was a child – I knew I was different – I knew I was “gay.” Therefore, I must have been born that way; I was born “gay.” These same words have been thought and spoken by millions of men and women; and, although there is not one piece of scientific evidence which definitively points to a genetic or any other biological component to homosexuality, most people still believe it. Actually, from my own experiences, the opposite is really proven all the time, as many gay men and women oftentimes share similar childhood backgrounds. For the most part, I found that homosexuals were deeply injured people; suffering greatly from the past that was out of their control: abuse, alienation, neglect, feelings of inadequacy and loneliness are common memories for many homosexuals. Yet, unlike most people, these emotions affected us in a profound way and later created the circumstances by which we would accept “gay” as the missing piece we had always searched for.

…to read the rest visit his site: https://josephsciambra.com
 
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That marriage is only between a man and a woman is a fundamental teaching, revealed by God. We call such teachings dogmatic. It is not an option for Catholics to obstinately refuse to accept such teachings.
 
Gab123 said:
Instead of saying “I am a gay man”, the right label would simply be “I am a man”.
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Would it also be wrong for someone to say, “I’m a Republican man” or “I’m a Catholic man,” or “I’m an American man”?
 
Read the site of someone who says that gay people marrying causes AIDS? I don’t think so. A) I know that isn’t true. And B) Because this gentleman experiences his faith in a way that I don’t. He’s entitled to believe as he does and hold to his opinions that’ve been formed by his faith, I however have come to different opinions. I’m not advocating for changing Church teaching, so please do not construe what I’m saying to mean that.
 
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The Church exists to get you and me to Heaven. We get to Heaven by becoming holy.
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Absolutely. The answer is prayer and building up the body of Christ. We are called to rise above carnality.
 
If you’re equating sexual attraction to political membership, religion, or citizenship, no.

But to some here, the belief is that sexual atttaction is most or all of what a person is.

However, those of us who are not attracted to the same sex don’t go around making our ‘straightness’ our sole identifying feature.
 
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The problem is that many do not want to hear the truth, because sometimes the truth hurts. But it is the truth that sets one free, thus Jesus said ”I Am the Truth”.
As for the website, here is a good article by Joseph Scambria’s site titled

“No one is born gay”

Since I was a child – I knew I was different – I knew I was “gay.” Therefore, I must have been born that way; I was born “gay.” These same words have been thought and spoken by millions of men and women; and, although there is not one piece of scientific evidence which definitively points to a genetic or any other biological component to homosexuality, most people still believe it. Actually, from my own experiences, the opposite is really proven all the time, as many gay men and women oftentimes share similar childhood backgrounds. For the most part, I found that homosexuals were deeply injured people; suffering greatly from the past that was out of their control: abuse, alienation, neglect, feelings of inadequacy and loneliness are common memories for many homosexuals. Yet, unlike most people, these emotions affected us in a profound way and later created the circumstances by which we would accept “gay” as the missing piece we had always searched for.

…to read the rest visit his site: https://josephsciambra.com
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The notion that people become gay became they were neglected or abused, had domineering mothers or absent, neglectful fathers is just not born out by the evidence and has been discredited for quite some time. There are a lot of gay people who did not grow up in dysfunctional families. And as for feeling lonely or alienated, that’s quite understandable when someone has a secret that they feel they must conceal from everyone, including their own families. Fortunately, many young gay people today aren’t in the position of feeling they need to keep important parts of themselves a secret anymore.

And even though a single “gay gene” has not been discovered, that doesn’t mean that genetic influences are completely absent. Many condition are now known to be caused by multiple genes “of small effect” that nevertheless still have a significant impact in their entirety. And who we become is also based to some degree on an interaction between our genes and the environment, and that interaction often results in epigenetic changes that are permanent for the most part.
 
Forty-five percent of adults in the U.S. are unmarried. It wouldn’t seem that anyone should have any need to explain why they are not married.
 
I think if one of the saints were asked what a person who is gay should do they’d say: “Exactly the same thing everyone else who embraces the Catholic faith should do–stop focusing on yourself, look to Jesus, and get on with the business of holiness.”
 
It’s a matter of priorities. If Christ and His Church are one’s priority, everything else is ephemeral.

There are far more men who struggle with masturbation than men who struggle with homosexual attraction. All already have their own special ministry, the Roman Catholic Church. All of them already have their own special minister: Jesus Christ. His ministry.
 
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Would it also be wrong for someone to say, “I’m a Republican man” or “I’m a Catholic man,” or “I’m an American man”?
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No, of course not, but it would be more correct to say…“I’m a man created in the image of God.”…and then to live accordingly.
 
Of course it won’t. Well said and indeed, broadly applicable and very relevant to this discussion.
 
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It is not an option for Catholics to obstinately refuse to accept such teachings.
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Sure it is. I know plenty of Catholics, practitioners of their faith, who don’t believe what the Church teaches on this issue. They are still every bit as Catholic as anyone else who is here.
 
Again, no one is forcing anyone to access Church Militant’s website or watch their videos.
 
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