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

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If you feel you’re called to help enable homosexuals to live chaste, celibate lives within the Catholic Church, great! Everyone has a different calling. Glad you’ve found yours. Seriously.
 
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JimG said:
Not only that but sexual attraction is a matter of degree. Some persons are sexually promiscuous; some are not. I knew one guy who routinely had sex with any number of women during his younger years. Was he oriented to multiple sex partners? Was he a sex addict? Maybe so. Then he married, and never strayed, remaining faithful to just one woman. Was he monogamously oriented? Apparently he became so.
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This I think bears repeating. I’ve been open about same-sex attraction, and equally open that I’m a convert. And that there was a time when I didn’t believe there was anything to stop me from engaging in same-sex relationships. It was hardly the lust-fueled orgy that so many Catholics seem to picture when they mention the “gay lifestyle.” So many seem to picture that anyone who has been openly gay was going home with a different partner every night and is incapable of caring about their partners in any way beyond the physical satisfaction of lust. I think that also contributes to driving people away - painting lurid stories as though they were the truth of sexuality.
 
The need is to purge those who can’t or won’t live in holy chastity.
 
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It may be that the youth are usually sociated with promiscuity in general.
 
Honestly I tend to think that’s often also more lurid panic than reality. I’m only 30 and I know my parents’ generation were completely panicked over how much sex kids nowadays were having. And as I got older I realize the number of people who have at any point lived that sort of “promiscuous lifestyle” is a lot lower than it was made out to be. It is more common to have long-term extramarital relationships, but the casual sex scene was never a big thing outside of generational fears.

Every young generation has been lazy, rude, promiscuous, and entitled.
 
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